Contributions to the history of the family of Oană Headman of Suceava (15th -17thcenturies)
Contributions to the history of the family of Oană Headman of Suceava (15th -17thcenturies)

Summary/Abstract: This study represents an older concern of the author regarding the history of Neamţ county, in the Middle Ages, research direction which is approached due to the doctoral thesis. Previously, dealth with a number of issues related to the nobility that had land ownership in the Neamţ county in articles published in magazines such as: Opţiuni Istoriografice” or „Magister”, and in a series of dissertations held at „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University-Iaşi. Through this study we investigated the genealogy and political development of a family of boyars in the XV-th – XVII-th centuries: family of Oană, Headman of Suceava. Inquiring internal and external documents, of that time, we found that these boyars have enjoyed great political importance during the reign of Alexandru cel Bun (Oană’s case), Iliaş, Roman II, Alexăndrel, Petru Aron or Stephen the Great ( Lazăr’s case and Stanciul’case ). Economically speaking, their descendants have fallen in the XVI-th – XVII-th century. The impressive number of mastered lands of Oană and his sons, but also the preoccupation manifested towards religious settlements, by foundation documents, prove the fact that this family places itself in the life of the great Moldavian boyar families, as we have remarked, had a special role in the politics of Moldavia, giving for counsellors and officials in the 15th century, and his descendants contributed, through feminine side, to the creation of families such as Şarpe-Gănescul, Prăjescu, Ciolpan, Boul or Başotă.

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