Mourousis family

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The Mourousis or Moruzi are a family which was first mentioned in the Empire of Trebizond. Its origins have been lost, but the two prevalent theories are that they were either a local family originating in a village which has a related name or else one that arrived with the Venetians during the Fourth Crusade (since there are records of a Venetian family with a similar name a generation earlier). They became one of the leading families of Greek Phanariotes.

The family moved to present-day Romania (the Danubian Principalities) in the 1600s, became boyars, and gave Wallachia and Moldavia two hospodars - Princes Constantine and Alexander. Members of the family remained in Romania and Bessarabia until the period of Soviet influence post-World War II.

[edit] Other members

Alexandru D. Moruzi (1815-1878), economist and politician
Dumitru C. Moruzi (1850-1914), folkorist and writer
Maria Moruzi-Cuza (d.1921), wife of Ion I. C. Brătianu, and mother of Gheorghe I. Brătianu

[edit] References

(Romanian) Iurie Colesnic, Reîntoarcerea pribeagului (on Dumitru C. Moruzi and his family)
Petre Otu, "«Adevărul rămâne oricare ar fi soarta celor care l-au servit». Gh.I.Brătianu — un istoric printre politicieni", in Dosarele Istoriei, 1/VI, 2001