List of monarchs of Moldavia

This is a list of monarchs of Moldavia, from the first mention of the medieval polity east of the Carpathians and until its disestablishment in 1862, when Unification of [Moldavia and Wallachia|it united] with Wallachia, the other Danubian Principality, to form the modern-day state of Romania.

List

Princes of Moldavia

[House of Dragoș]

Portrait	Monarch	Reign	Remarks
	Dragoș I	c. 1347–c. 1354	Described as an early monarch of Moldavia, he was sent there as a representative of king Louis I of Hungary to establish a line of defense against the Golden Horde, where he ruled.
	Sas	c. 1354–c. 1363	son of Dragoș
	Balc	c.	son of Sas

[House of Bogdan-Mușat]

House of Bogdan-Muşat">House of Bogdan-Muşat">Bogdan-Muşat, with interventions of [Basarab] ([Drăculeşti] line) and [Movilești] dynasties

Pre-Phanariote period

The Ottoman influence in the Moldavian rulers' election grows from the mid-17th century onward. From 1659, the rulers elected are mostly scions of Greek families, and increasingly less linked to the original Moldavian ruling family. The process reached its peak with the called Phanariote period, where, between the rulers, there was already no connection with the dynasty of Bogdan-Musat.

Various dynasties

Portrait	Monarch	Reign	Family	Remarks
	Gheorghe Ghica	1658–1659	Ghica
	Constantin Șerban	1659 1661	Basarab
	Ștefan Lupu	1659–1661 1661	Coci	also called Papură-Vodă ; 1st rule
	Eustratie Dabija	1661–1665	Dabija
	Gheorghe Duca	1665–1666 1668–1672 1678–1683
	Iliaș Alexandru	1666–1668	Bogdan-Mușat	The last member of the House of Bogdan-Mușat reigning in Moldavia; son of Alexandru VII.
	Ştefan Petriceicu	1672–1673 1673–1674 1683–1684	Petriceicu	1st rule
	Dumitrașcu Cantacuzino	1673 1674–1675 1684–1685	Cantacuzino	1st rule
	Antonie Ruset	1675–1678	Rosetti
	Constantin Cantemir	1685–1693	Cantemirești
	Dimitrie Cantemir	1693 1710–1711	Cantemirești	1st rule; deposed by Ottomans
	Constantin Duca	1693–1695 1700–1703
	Antioh Cantemir	1695–1700 1705–1707	Cantemirești	1st rule
	Chancellor Ioan Buhuș	1703 1709–1710	Buhuș
	Mihai Racoviță	1703–1705 1707–1709 1715–1726	Racoviță
	Nicolae Mavrocordat	1709–1710 1711–1715	Mavrocordato	1st rule