Grigore IV Ghica

Grigore IV Ghica
Oil painting of Prince Grigore IV Ghica
Prince of Wallachia
Reign	June 30, 1822 – April 29, 1828
Predecessor	Scarlat Callimachi
Successor	Alexandru II Ghica
Born	June 30, 1755 Wallachia
Died	April 29, 1834 (aged 78) Wallachia
Spouse	Maria Hangerly Eufrosina Săvescu
Issue Detail	Costache Ghica Iorgu Ghica Scarlat Ghica Grigore Ghica Panait Ghica Dimitrie Ghica Maria Ghica Alexandrina Ghica
Full name Grigore Dimitrie Ghica
House	House of Ghica
Father	Dimitrie Ghica
Mother	Maria Vacarescu

Grigore IV Ghica or Grigore Dimitrie Ghica (June 30, 1755 – April 29, 1834) was Prince of Wallachia between 1822 and 1828. A member of the Ghica family, Grigore IV was the brother of Alexandru II Ghica and the uncle of Dora d'Istria.

While many of his relatives had occupied the throne in both Wallachia and Moldavia as Phanariotes, the regime change after the Greek War of Independence, Tudor Vladimirescu's 1821 uprising and the Philikí Etaireía's brief rule in the two Danubian Principalities, led to Grigore IV being considered the first in a succession of non-Phanariote rulers. The elections for Prince in the Divan, although prescribed by the Akkerman Convention of 1826, were not to be organized, due mainly to precipitating events.As a Prince,Grigore watched after the development of agriculture in his region.

The Prince was ousted by the Russian occupation (see Russo-Turkish War, 1828–1829).

Grigore IV Ghica was first married to Maria Hangerly or Chantzeres (relative of Ecumenical Patriarch Samuel I Chatzeres),^[1] with whom he had six sons (Costache, Iorgu, Scarlat, Grigore, Panait, and Dimitrie), and then to Eufrosina Săvescu, with whom he had two daughters (Maria and Alexandrina).^[2]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Grigore IV Ghica

16. Grigore I Ghika, prince of Valachia               8. Matthaios Ghikas                       17. Maria Sturdza               4. Alexandru Ghika, prince of Valachia and Moldavia                             18. count Alexandros Mavrokordatos               9. countess Roxana Mavrokordataina                       19. Sultana Chrysoskoulaina               2. Dimitrie Ghika, ban of Valachia                                   20. Ioannes Euphragiotis               10. Demetrios Euphragiotis                       21.               5. Helena Euphragiotissa                             22.               11.                       23.               1. Grigore IV Ghika, prince of Wallachia                                         24.               12. Ioan Vacarescu, martyr, treasurer of Valachia                       25.               6. Barbu Vacarescu, boyar of Tei                             26.               13. Stanca Cojescu                       27.               3. Maria Vacarescu, heiress of Tei                                   28. Constantin Cantacuzino, seneschal of Valachia               14. Radul Cantacuzino, chancellor of Valachia                       29. Elisabeta Buhus               7. Elisabeta Cantacuzina                             30.               15. Stanca Brezoianu                       31.

References

1. Σύγχρονος Εγκυκλοπαίδεια Ελευθερουδάκη,τόμος 6ος,σελ 933 και τόμος 24ος,σελ 827,revised edition,1963(greek)
2. "Family tree" (PDF) (in French). Ghyka.com.