Alexandru IV Iliaș (died 1666) was Prince of Wallachia from 1616 to 1618, then from 1628 to 1629, and Prince of Moldavia from 1620 to 1621 and 1631 to 1633.

Alexandru Iliaş
Prince of Wallachia
(1st reign)
ReignSeptember 1616 – May 1618
PredecessorGabriel Movilă
SuccessorGabriel Movilă
Prince of Moldavia
(1st reign)
Reign10 September 1620 – October 1621
PredecessorGaspar Graziani
SuccessorȘtefan IX Tomșa
Prince of Wallachia
(2nd reign)
ReignJanuary 1628 – October 1629
PredecessorAlexandru Coconul
SuccessorLeon Tomșa
Prince of Moldavia
(2nd reign)
Reign5 December 1631 – April 1633
PredecessorMoise Movilă
SuccessorMiron Barnovschi-Movilă
Bornunknown
Died1666
IssueRadu XI Iliaș, Iliaș Alexandru
DynastyBogdan-Mușat
FatherIliaş
ReligionOrthodox

Life

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Alexandru IV Iliaș was the son of Ilie, or Iliaș, himself son of Alexandru IV Lăpușneanu, Prince of Moldavia. His father was elected Prince of Wallachia in March 1591 but he could not win against Radu.

Alexandru IV was approved Prince of Wallachia by the Ottomans from September 1616 to November 1618 and from October 1629 to September 10, 1630. He was also Prince of Moldavia under the name Alexandru Ilie from September 10, 1620 (after the Battle of Țuțora) to October 1621 and from December 1631 to April 1633; he died the same year (or 1666).

From an unknown wife he left two sons:

Sources

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  • Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol Histoire des Roumains de la Dacie trajane: Depuis les origines jusqu'à l'union des principautés. E. Leroux Paris (1896)
  • Nicolas Iorga Histoire des Roumains et de la romanité orientale. (1920)
  • (in Romanian) Constantin C. Giurescu & Dinu C. Giurescu, Istoria Românilor Volume III (from 1606), Editura Științifică și Enciclopedică, București, 1977.
  • Jean Nouzille La Moldavie, Histoire tragique d'une région européenne, Ed. Bieler, ISBN 2-9520012-1-9.
  • Gilles Veinstein, Les Ottomans et la mort (1996) ISBN 9004105050.
  • Joëlle Dalegre Grecs et Ottomans 1453-1923. De la chute de Constantinople à la fin de l'Empire Ottoman, L'Harmattan Paris (2002) ISBN 2747521621.
Preceded by Voivode of Wallachia
1616–1618
Succeeded by
Preceded by Prince of Moldavia
1620–1621
Succeeded by
Preceded by Voivode of Wallachia
1628–1629
Succeeded by
Preceded by Prince of Moldavia
1631–1633
Succeeded by