Constantin Cantacuzino (stolnic)

Hurezi fresco of Constantin Cantacuzino on a 2000 Romanian stamp

Constantin Cantacuzino (1639 – Constantinople, 7 June 1716)[1] was a Romanian nobleman and historian who held high offices in the Principality of Wallachia. He was a humanist scholar who drew the first local map of Wallachia in 1700, and started to write a History of Wallachia which remained unfinished.[1] In his History of Wallachia, he "accepted a Daco-Roman mixing" (Lucian Boia)[2] in connection with the origin of the Romanians. A promoter of a prudent anti-Ottoman policy, he was executed together with his son Ștefan.

  1. ^ a b Treptow, Popa 1996, p. 60.
  2. ^ Boia 2001, p. 85.