Cantemir family

According to family legends, the ancestor of this family was a Tatar khan Temir who settled in Moldavia in the 16th century. His name 'khan Temir' was pronounced as 'Cantemir' there.

One Tudor Cantemir, apparently a peasant who became boyar; he had issue:

• A1. Constantin Cantemir, Hospodar of Moldavia (VI.1685-III.1693), *1627, +Jassy 24.3.1693; 1m: Anastasia Pss Ghika, dau.of Hospodar Gheorghe Ghika; 2m: 1670 Anna Bantos; 3m: Ruxandra Harasi
  • B1. [1m.] Antioh Cantemir, Hospodar of Moldavia (XII.1695-IX.1700)+(II.1705-VI.1707), +1726; m.Golia 1696 Catrina N
    • C1. Anna; m.Radu Bassarab de Brancovan (+executed Istanbul 15.8.1714), son and heir of Constantin Brancovan, Voivode of Wallachia
    • C2. Dimitrie, +1758
    • C3. Constantin Cantemir, general-poruchik of the Russian army 25.12.1755, *1718, +1776; 1m: N, a Moldavian woman; 2m: Natalia Ivanovna Golovina; 3m: Sofia Bogdanovna Passek (+1783)
      • D1. [3m.] Dimitrie Cantemir, colonel, he went mad and was confined to a fortress, *1749, +Kiev 17.5.1820
      • D2. Maria; m.boyar Pantazi Campineanu; their issue took the name Cantemir-Campineanu
  • B2. [2m.] Dimitrie Kantemir, Hospodar of Moldavia (1693)+(XI.1710-VII.1711), the first Romanian historian, geographer, and composer, -cr Prince of the Russian Empire (Serene Highness) 31.7.1711, -cr Reichsfürst 1723, *Galati 26.10.1673, +Dmitrovka 21.8.1723, bur Moscow; 1m: Jassy 9.5.1699 Pss Cassandra Cantacuzene (*1682, +11.5.1713); 2m: St.Petersburg 14.1.1717 Pss Anastasia Trubecka (*14.10.1700, +27.11.1755)
    • C1. [1m.] Pss Maria, mistress of Tsar Piotr I, *29.4.1700, +9.9.1754
    • C2. Pss Ekaterina, dit Smaragda (Emerald), *1701, +1720
    • C3. Pr Constantin, *1703, +19.1.1747; m.24.5.1724 Pss Anastasia Galitzine (*15.10.1698, +12.1.1746)
    • C4. Pr Matvei, *1704, +1771; m.1734 Agrafena Pss Lobanoff de Rostoff (*20.6.1708, +5.1.1772)
    • C5. Pr Sergei, brigadier, *1707, +1780
      • D1. [by Avdotia Moiseevna] Elena Alfimova, *1744, +after 1772
    • C6. Pr Antiokh, historian and poet, Russian ambassador in Paris and London, *Cantemir Palace, Constantinople 10.9.1708, +Paris 31.3.1744; he apparently left illegitimate issue while living abroad
    • C7. [2m.] Pss Ekaterina/Smaragda II, famed for her beauty, *19.11.1720, +Versailles 3.11.1761; m.St.Petersburg 6.11.1751 Pr Dmitri Mikhailovich Galitzine (*15.5.1721, +Vienna 19.9.1793)
  • B3. Elisaveta; m.Mihai Ion Racovita, Hospodar of Moldavia
  • B4. Ruxandra; m.Lupu Costachi, Great Spatar of Moldavia
• A2. Nestor Cantemir, *1635, +1683
• A3. Macrina Cantemir, +1677

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