Callimachi family
Family tree of the Callimachi family
Callimachi, Calimachi, or Kallimachi (originally Calmaşul or Călmaşu) was a Moldavian-Greek Phanariote boyar and princely family, originating with a group of free peasants living in the Orhei area of Bessarabia. It still remains present today in modern Romania.
Members
- Vasile Călmaşul: b. 1640, Landowner in Bucovina
- Teodor Călmaşul: (1660–1740) vornic (headman) of Câmpulung, father of Ioan and Gavriil
- Ioan Teodor Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1758-1761
- Gavriil Callimachi: Orthodox monk, Mitropolite of Moldavia ?-1786
- Grigore Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1761-1764; 1767-1769
- Alexandru Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1795-1799
- Scarlat Callimachi: Prince of Moldavia 1806; de jure only, under Imperial Russian occupation, 1807-1810; 1812-1819); Prince of Wallachia, 1821 de jure only - prevented from reaching his throne by Vladimirescu's Pandur uprising
- Alexandros Kallimachis: Ottoman diplomat, governor of Samos Island 1850-1854
- Scarlat Callimachi: communist activist
- Andrew Calimach: author
- Rukmini Maria Callimachi journalist
Sources
- Nita Dan Danielescu. "Gavriil Callimachi, ctitorul Catedralei mitropolitane Sf. Gheorghe din Iasi" Ziarul Lumina, 2006-02-20
- Narcis Dorin Ion. Castele, palate şi conace din România, 2003
- Ghyka family website, genealogical tree
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