Ştefan cel Mare, Ivan III, Sofia Tominicina (Paleolog) şi Elena Stefanovna Voloşanca - Legături dinastice şi politice
Stephen the Great, Ivan III, Sofia Tominicina (Palaeologus) and Elena Stefanovna Voloşanca – Dinastic and Political Relations

Summary/Abstract: By his marriage to Evdochia of Kiev in 1463, Stephen the Great, who belonged to the Moldavian family of the Bogdănescus, was setting dynastic links with the prominent Lithuanian family of the Gegymins-Jagellons, also related through its women to the family of the Muscovite Riurics. This dynastic alliance was being made at highest level, since Evdochia’s father, Alexander (Olelko), was the cousin german of the Polish king Casimir IV (1447-1492), while Evdochia’s mother, Anastasia, the daughter of Basil I Grand Cneze of Muscovy (1389-1425) and of Sofia, the daughter of (Witold), Casimir IV’s uncle, was the sister of the Grand Muscovite Cneze Basil II the Blind (1425-1462, with intermittence) and the aunt of the latter’s son, Ivan III (1462-1505). In this way, the three dynastic figures ruling over Central and East Europe, Casimir IV, Ivan III and Stephen the Great, were being bound by dynastic links. The only character to interfere from without this equation was the Tatar Khan of Crimea, Mengli Ghirai I (1466-1515, with intermittence), a regular ally of Ivan III, but also of Stephen the Great, occasionally, against Poland, Lithuania and the Golden Horde. After two decades, this first dynastic episode by which.... "Arătam cândva, în legătură cu descoperirea rămăşiţelor pietrei de mormânt a Evdochiei de Kiev, cea dintâi soţie a lui Ştefan cel Mare, înmormântată în prima biserică a Mitropoliei de la Suceava (anterioară Mirăuţilor), că această căsătorie a fost una dintre cele mai prestigioase alianţe matrimoniale contractate vreodată de domnii Moldovei.[...] Cum a izbutit tânărul domn al Moldovei, care la 1463, anul primei sale căsătorii, avea în jur de 25 de ani şi nu se ilustrase încă prin ceva deosebit, plătind conştiincios tribut Porţii otomane3 şi recunoscând din 4 aprilie 1459 suzeranitatea regelui Cazimir IV4, în plus, fiind şi fiul unui inamic al polonilor, Bogdan II, să se căsătorească cu o nepoată a regelui Jagiellon de neam lituan,[...]"

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