Testamentele familiei Hudici din secolul al XVIII-lea
The Eighteenth century testaments of the Hudici family

Summary/Abstract: Written by a prince, by a higher or a lower boyar, by a merchant, by a high cleric or by a humble monk, the last will and testament was simultaneously a social obligation, dutifully assumed, and a fearful reflection on the after-life. Not surprisingly, all testators felt the need to emphasise that they were in sound mind. For historians, this genre of documents is particularly valuable, mostly for its social insight and for its patrimonial data. This study aims to publish and to analyse several testaments, written by the members of the same family, the Hudici, who held lower ranks at the Moldavian court in the eighteenth century. My analysis focuses on some of these testaments, written between 1715 and 1768, correlated with several judicial documents on the inheritance disputes between the family members. All these primary sources are published in the appendix. As a result, I was able to outline the biography of three important members of this Moldavian noble family. The oldest one is Andrei Hudici, nicknamed Bejan, followed by Antiohie Hudici and by Dimitrie Hudici. Dimitrie took the monastic vow under the name Dionysius and founded the Doljeşti monastery, in the Neamţ region.

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