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ISTROS
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IN HONOREM PROFESSORIS
IONEL CÂNDEA
MUZEUL BRĂILEI EDITURA ISTROS
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BRĂILA
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CUPRINS / CONTENTS
Preistorie. Protoistorie. Antichitate /
Prehistory. Protohistory. Antiquity
MIRELA VERNESCU, Cultura Cernavoda I în estul Câmpiei
Române. Tipuri de artefacte (II) / La culture Cernavoda I à l’est
de la Plaine Roumaine. Types d’artefacts (II) ………………….....
13
STĂNICĂ PANDREA, VALERIU SÎRBU, COSTIN CROITORU, MIRELA
VERNESCU, Tumulul T03 de la Găvani, com. Gemenele, jud.
Brăila / Tumulus T03 de Găvani, comm. de Gemenele, dép. de
Brăila ……………………………………………………………...
55
CRISTIAN SCHUSTER, ION TUŢULESCU, MIRCEA NEGRU, Despre
„capetele de băţ” din epoca bronzului din sudul României /
Erwägungen zu den „stockknäufen” der bronzezeit im süden
Rumäniens .......................................................................................
79
STĂNICĂ PANDREA, VALERIU SÎRBU, COSTIN CROITORU, MIRELA
VERNESCU, Cercetări arheologice preventive pe valea
Călmăţuiului. Campania 2011 / Rescue Archaeological Research
on the Călmăţui Valley. The Campaign of 2011 ………………….
117
MARIJA LJUŠTINA, Regiunea sudică a Bazinului Carpatic în
secolul al IV-lea î. Hr. şi primele sale contacte cu lumea La Tène:
studiu de caz asupra arealului „Confluenţei Belgradului”, Serbia /
Southernmost Part of the Carpathian Basin in 4th
c. BC and its
First contacts with La Tène World: Case Study of “Belgrade’s
Confluence”, Serbia ……………………………………………….
139
TOMASZ BOCHNAK, Agrafe celtice zoomorfe pe teritoriul Poloniei
/ Agrafes zoomorphes celtiques sur les terres Polonaises ...............
185
VALERIU SÎRBU, IOAN CERNĂU, CĂTĂLINA CERNEA, MARIAN
NEAGU, FLORIN VLAD, DAN ŞTEFAN, MARIA–MAGDALENA
ŞTEFAN, SIMINA STANC, Cercetarile arheologice de la Crăsanii
De Jos-Piscul Crăsani (com. Balaciu, jud. Ialomiţa).
Campania 2013. Epoca Geto-Dacică / Les fouilles
archéologiques de Crăsanii de Jos-Piscul Crăsani (comm. de
Balaciu, dép. d’Ialomita). Campagne 2013. Époque géto-dace ….
207
CĂTĂLIN BORANGIC, Arme şi piese de harnaşament din epoca
Regatului dac descoperite la Bulbuc, com. Ceru-Băcăinţi, jud.
Alba. Consideraţii preliminare / Weapons and harness items from
the time of the Dacian Kingdom, discovered at
Bulbuc-Ceru-Băcăinţi, Alba County. Preliminary observations .....
259
VALERIU SÎRBU, COSTIN CROITORU, Barboşi: de la dava la castru
/ Barboşi: de la dava au castrum ………………………….............
311
SILVIU OŢA, Cercei decoraţi cu muluri de granule pe verigă,
descoperiti pe teritoriul Romaniei şi Banatului sârbesc (a doua
jumătate a secolului al XI-lea–secolul al XVI-lea) / Earrings
decorated with granule mouldings on the link, discovered on the
territory of Romania and the Serbian Banat (second half of the
Eleventh Century–the Sixteenth Century) …………………….......
391
MONICA LUCA, SIMINA STANC, Exploatarea resurselor animale în
aşezarea de la Răcari (judeţul Dolj): date arheozoologice şi
arheogenetice / Animal resources exploited in the Răcari
settlement (Dolj County): Archaeozoologic and Archaeogenetics
Data …………………………………………………………….....
411
Evul Mediu Românesc şi European /
Romanian and European Middle Ages
VASILE MĂRCULEŢ, Noi consideraţii privind funcţionarea
Arhontatului de Lykostomion în secolul al IX-lea / New
Considerations on the Functioning of the Archonate of
Lykostomion in the 9th
Century ………………………………........
429
GEORGE DAN HÂNCEANU, Arme medievale descoperite în Târgul
Romanului (punctul La Bibliotecă) / Armes médiévales découvertes
dans la Bourgade de Roman (le point La Bibliotecă) …………….
447
FLORINA CIURE, Rutele comerciale care legau Oradea de Veneţia
în secolele XIV–XVIII / Le vie commerciali che collegavano
Oradea e Venezia nei secoli XIV–XVIII ..........................................
465
GRZEGORZ JAWOR, Ius Valachicum în Polonia medievală. Partea
I: tribunalele valahe numite strunga sau zbory / Ius Valachicum
dans la Pologne médiévale. Partie I: les tribunaux valaques dits
strungi ou zbory ………...................................................................
493
ANCA POPESCU, Ellici în kazaua Hârşova (sec. XVI). Precizări
asupra unei instituţii / The Ellici of the Kaza of Hârşova (16th
Century). Observations on an Ottoman Institution …………….....
529
CRISTIAN NICOLAE APETREI, O relaţie reconsiderată. Negustorii
din familia Corniact şi Moldova în anii 1540–1570 / Rethinking
the Connections of a Sixteenth Century Family. The Korniakt
Merchants and Moldavia from 1540 to 1570 ………………..........
545
GHEORGHE LAZĂR, Logofeţii cancelariei domneşti din Ţara
Românească (sec. al XVII-lea). Consideraţii preliminare pentru o
cercetare prosopografică / Les logothètes de la chancellerie
princière de la Valachie (XVIIe siècle). Considérations
préliminaires pour une recherche prosopographique …………….
585
DORU BĂDĂRĂ, Elite ecleziastice şi demers tipografic în Ţările
Române (jumătatea secolului al XVII-lea–începutul secolului al
XVIII-lea) / Church Elites and the approach of printing in
Romanian Principalities (the second half of Seventeenth–first half
of the Eighteenth Century) …………………………………….......
621
IOANA FEODOROV, Texte arabe creştine tipărite cu ajutor din
Ţările Române în secolul al XVIII-lea – repertoriu comentat – /
Christian Arabic texts printed with help from the Romanian
Principalities in the 18th
century – An annotated record – ……….
651
CRISTIAN LUCA, Din istoria viticulturii în Ţările Române: un
document grecesc despre moşia Măicăneşti a Mănăstirii Radu-
Vodă (Sf. Treime) / La viticulture dans les Pays Roumains: un
document grec concernant le domaine de Măicăneşti du
monastère Radu-Vodă (Sainte-Trinité) ……………………...........
731
OVIDIU MUREŞAN, Istoria medievală a Ţărilor Române şi
nuvelistica românească a secolului al XIX-lea / Medieval History
of Romanian Principalities and Romanian Short Stories of 19th
Century ………………………………………………………........
755
Genealogie
TUDOR–RADU TIRON, Din ascendenţa Micleştilor. Note
despre purtătorii numelui Borcea / Forefathers of the Miclescu
Family. Notes About the Bearers of the Name Borcea …………....
773
MIHAI SORIN RĂDULESCU, Grigore Tocilescu – ascendenţii şi
familia / Grigore Tocilescu – his Ancestors and Family ………….
809
MARIUS PĂDURARU, Două foi de zestre munteneşti din ultimul
deceniu al secolului al XVII-lea / Deux actes dotaux valaques
datant de la dernière décennie du XVIIe siècle …………………...
877
Discuţii
FLORIN CURTA, Un hagialâc şovăielnic prin tărâmul unor
cunoştinţe străine: d-l Niculescu, struţul şi arheologia cultural-
istorică / Un pèlerinage hésitant à travers la contrée de
connaissances étrangères: M. Niculescu, l’autruche et
l’archéologie culturelle-historique ….……………………….........
907
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FOREFATHERS OF THE MICLESCU FAMILY.
NOTES ABOUT THE BEARERS OF THE NAME BORCEA*
TUDOR-RADU TIRON (BUCHAREST – ROMANIA)
Keywords: Moldavian boyar families, Miclescu, Borcea, captain
Giulea, Giurgiu of Frătăuţi
Summary. The study approaches the beginnings of the Miclescu family,
one of the oldest Moldavian families. The text exposes the descent of the
Miclescu family from Nicolae Borcea, vornic and pârcălab of Hotin in the first
half of the 16th century, as well as several links with other people having related
names (as Bora, Borici).
In the light of several direct and indirect documentary mentions, from
the 14th – 17
th centuries, the Miclescu family resulted to descend from boyars
living immediately after the foundation of Moldavia, such as the judge Bora “at
Horoiata rivulet”, or captain Giulea, dignitary of prince Peter the Ist, having roots
in Maramureş.
Despite his position as a rural boyard, the diac Ionaşco of Gugeşti
(1621, 1642), forefather of the present Miclescu family, was the offspring
of Moldavia’s oldest boyard families. He was the grandson, maybe the
great-grandson, of Nicolae Borcea, vornic and pârcălab of Hotin (1545,
ante 1550) who, alongside Toader and Sora, were the children of a certain
Fădor (1528), son of Anuşca (1488), who was a kinship of Bradici, judge
of the village of Bradiceşti (ante 1436) on the Crasna Valley1. On his
father’s side, Stanciu Starostici, Fădor descended from the family of
Giurgiu of Frătăuţi (1393, 1404, 1439), who must have been one of the
* The author avails himself of this opportunity to express his sincere thanks to Prof. Dr.
Mircea Ciubotaru (Iaşi), to Dr. Lucian-Valeriu Lefter (Iaşi) and to Mr. Mihai-Alin Pavel
(Bucharest), for the valuable assistance they have given him in revising the text. 1 Maria Magdalena Székely, Sfetnicii lui Petru Rareş. Studiu prosopografic, Editura
Universităţii „Al. I. Cuza”, Iaşi, 2002, pp. 145-148 and Annex 13.
Tudor-Radu Tiron
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country’s most important boyards since he had the rank of staroste – in
this period the meaning being ‘a dean’ or main councillor2.
Information concerning the Starostici family ancestors is to be
found in the writings of I. C. Miclescu-Prăjescu, almost eighty years ago3;
the issue has been recently discussed by the historian Andrei Pippidi4.
The present analysis will focus on the person who connects the two
families, namely vornic Nicolae Borcea.
Following the bloodline, we notice that the anthroponym Borcea
appears only once5, regarding the mentioned dignitary from the court of
the reigning prince Petru Rareş. Until new information or interpretations
would be provided, we can only suppose that only the vornic might have
been identified through another family name – his mother’s or foster
parent’s etc.; this fact is perfectly explicable if we consider the way in
which family structures functioned during autochthon Middle Ages. It
could be the case of a kinship emphasized by heritage transfer6;
unfortunately, the only thing we know is that the vornic Nicolae Borcea’s
posession Făşcanii (Fâşcanii) on the Crasna Valley (west to the present
village of Tăbălăieşti, belonging to the Buneşti-Avereşti commune, on
Valea Borcii)7 is not far away from Micleşti, village in the Vaslui region
(nowadays a commune in the Vaslui county), place that gave to the
Miclescu boyars their surname. It is also true that the village of Făşcani
must have been inherited exactly from the Stărosteşti family, who owned
land and a house on the Crasna Valley even before mid-15th
century8. Yet,
as Maria Magdalena Székely has noted, it is quite unlikely that the vornic
2 Lucian-Valeriu Lefter, “Boierii noştri credincioşi”. Conexiuni genealogice în sfatul
domnesc al lui Ştefan cel Mare, in AP-Putna, VI, 2010, I, p. 254. 3 I. C. Miclescu-Prăjescu, Boieri moldoveni din veacul al XV-lea. Stanciu pârcălab de
Hotin şi Stanciu Marele, excerpt from RIR, VII, 1937, fasc. 3-4, pp. 358-372; idem,
Boieri moldoveni din veacul al XV-lea, Stanciu Starostescul şi Stanciu comisul, in RIR,
VIII, 1938, pp. 175-184. 4 Andrei Pippidi, Genealogia familiei Miclescu, după un izvor necunoscut, in ArhGen,
VI (XI), 1999, 1-4, pp. 159-160. 5 Ibidem, pp. 160-161.
6 Maria Magdalena Székely, Structuri de familie în societatea medievală românească, in
ArhGen, IV (IX), 1997, 1-2, p. 87. 7 Cf. Mircea Ciubotaru, Desluşiri la începutul neamului boierilor Miclescu, lecture given
at the Colloquium „Memorie istorică, patrimoniu familial şi implicaţii sociale”, Conacul
Miclescu, Călineşti, 10 July 2012 (further referred to as: Mircea Ciubotaru, Desluşiri).
See also note 24. 8 Andrei Pippidi, op.cit., p. 159.
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had only one possession (his part being only a third of the half of the
village)9. With no more information on the possessions of his ancestors
(not only his direct ones), we cannot come with any final conclusions
about Nicolae Borcea’s heritage. His cognomen could not be
coincidential, it must remind of another genealogical tradition, difficult to
investigate, but venerable, that is going to be presented below.
As regards the origin of name Borcea, N. A. Constantinescu
mentioned several derived forms of theme Borc + different suffixes
(resulting Borcea, Borciu, Borcilă), yet he also takes into account the
Turkish-Cuman word Borča. The same author mentions as derivatived in
the same way the following words: Borce, Borcea, Borcilă, Borcină etc.,
noticing the fact that Miron Costin has transliterated the Hungarian name
Barcsay (of Acaţiu Barcsay, Prince of Transylvania) as Borcea. Some
other place, the same author confirms that the name Borcea has Turki and
Turkish origin, just like the following words: Aga, Asan, Aslan, Babá,
Balaban, Basarab, Baş, Buga, Bulat, Borza etc10
. Nicolae Iorga believed
that the origin of the names Borzea and Borcea must be searched in the
same direction, since he indicates the Cuman chief Borz in this respect11
.
Considering its high frequency in the Moldavian onomastic12
, the name
Borcea may have different origins, depending on the situation. Thus we
cannot state that all persons bearing this name belonged to the same
family.
* * *
The first person with this name is the diac Borcea, who lived
during Ştefan cel Mare’s rule and wrote several documents between 1472
and 148213
. Gheorghe Ghibănescu assumed that he was the vornic
Nicolae Borcea’s grandfather14
(Andrei Pippidi has individually
developed this opinion, too)15
. This name occurs again in a forged
document dated 1497, March 15th
, that confirmed to the children of Triful
9 Maria Magdalena Székely, Sfetnicii…, p. 148.
10 N. A. Constantinescu, Dicţionar onomastic românesc, Editura Academiei Republicii
Populare Romîne, (Bucharest), 1963, p. XLVI, p. 210. 11
N. Iorga, Istoria românilor, Vol. III – Ctitorii, Bucharest, 1937, pp. 32, 113. 12
Ibidem, p. 210. 13
DRH, A, II (1449-1486), passim. 14
Gheorghe Ghibănescu, Surete şi izvoade, vol. XIX, p. 2. 15
Andrei Pippidi, op.cit., p. 160, note 20.
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794
Borzescul (Borcea, princely subject, and his sister Dragolea) more
possessions in the Câmpul lui Dragoş area, namely the Beţeşti (the house
included) and Bărbăşani villages, and half of the Rediu village16
, all
situated within the present Rediu commune (the county of Neamţ). From
this very document point of view, the names Borcea and Borzescul have a
common root, namely Bor- (this would support Nicolae Iorga’s already
mentioned observation). On the other hand, this connection seems quite
unlikely because the theme Borz leads to a totally different word family
such as Borze, Borzea, Borza etc17
. One should interpret the name Triful
Borzescul as meaning ‘Borzea’s Trif’, meaning that a certain Borzea was
the paternal grandfather of Borcea from 1497, hence no continuity existed
between one name and the other.
The above mentioned Trifu is the one who on 1438, October 10th
,
received, alongside with his brothers, the possession over the village of
Polăeştii, „…between Tazlăul Sărat and Tăietură…”18
(within the present
Măgireşti commune in the county of Bacău). On 1455, August 20th
, the
same person received an uric for the villages Beţeşti, redeemed from
Beţea, Ştefăneşti (probably next to Beţeşti), received from Beţea in return
to parts of his wife’s land in Marişeşti, Bolceşti (probably in the Cândeşti
commune, the county of Neamţ), Ceretiani and half of Marişeşti (both of
them probably in the Certieni village, the present Bârgăoani commune,
the county of Neamţ)19
. Therefore, the 1497 Borcea’s family derived from
the boyards of that old centre of territorial organization named Câmpul lui
Dragoş (Dragoş’s Field), an area that by its name reminds of a person at
least contemporary with the foundation of the state, if not the very first
ruler of the country20
.
We are not certain about anything concerning the diac Borcea’s
filiation or Triful Borzescul’s sons. More than half of century later, on
1567, April 29th
, a certain Silion and his brothers Stan and Toader, sons of
Borcea, grandsons of Danciul Pardos, gave the third part of the Moineşti
village (where the river Orbic falls into Bistriţa; today, the same with the
town of Buhuşi, the county of Bacău), the lower part, to the vistiernic
16
DRH, A, III (1487-1504), Documente false, no. IX. 17
N. A. Constantinescu, op.cit., p. 211. 18
DRH, A, I (1384-1448), no. 190. 19
DRH, A, II (1449-1486), no. 50. 20
Costică Asăvoaie, Observaţii şi precizări privitoare la Câmpul lui Dragoş (I), in
ArhMold, XVII, 1994, pp. 271-276 (this issue historiography).
Forefathers of the Miclescu Family
795
Manea and his brothers, descendants of a certain Cozma Hărlec, in return
of a third part, the lower part, from the Bodeşti village on Bistriţa, the
Neamţ region (the same with the town of Buhuşi, the county of Bacău)21
.
Considering the information provided by this document, we notice that
Borcea who lived in the first part of the century and owned Moineşti had
his estate next to the three villages attested in 1497 to the other Borcea.
Even though these persons’s perfect overlapping seems unlikely22
, we can
easily state that we are talking about one and the same family (in this
case, Triful Borzescul and Danciul Pardos would be the two grandparents
of Borcea from 1497). The lineage could be the following: Triful
Borzescul (1455), his son Borcea (1497), an unknown person – we can
name him ‘Borcea II’ (mention from 1567), then the latter’s sons, Silion,
Stan and Toader (1567). We remind the fact that a certain Condrea
Borcea, son of Axinia, sister of mare vornic Condrea Bucium († 1592),
was attested on 1627, April 20th
, as the owner of a part of the Buciuleşti
village on the Bistriţa river, the Neamţ region (today the Podoleni
commune, the county of Neamţ)23
– this estate being also in the proximity
of the possessions of Triful Borzescul and his offspring, Borcea and
Dragolea. We cannot know for sure if this last case refers to a simple
coincidence of name or not.
Coming back to Triful Borzescul’s two children, the documents
attesting in 1497 their ownership over certain villages do not allow us to
recompose for almost a century the course of this ownership24
. This
makes it difficult to identify any blood connections between the above
mentioned persons and the most famous person bearing this name,
21
DRH, A, VI (1546-1570), no. 334. For information concerning the evolution of the
ownership in Bodeşti, see also Ibidem, no. 286 (document dated 1561, no month or date
provided). 22
Triful Borzescul’s son from 1438 and 1455 could not be also father of Silion, Stan and
Toader in 1567! Yet, we may suppose that a „Borcea I” and a „Borcea II” existed in
order to connect generations. 23
DRH, A, XIX (1626-1628), no. 186. See also *** Familiile boiereşti din Moldova şi
Ţara Românească. Enciclopedie istorică, genealogică şi biografică, vol. II, coordinator
and co-author Mihai Dim. Sturdza, Editura Simetria, Bucharest, 2011, p. 506, where
they suppose that the name of Condrea’s father in 1627 was also Borcea, meaning that
we are talking about a family name and not a cognomen. 24
Alexandru I. Gonţa, Documente privind Istoria României. A. Moldova. Veacurile XIV-
XVII (1384-1625). Indicele numelor de locuri, edited and forward by I. Caproşu, Editura
Academiei Române, Bucharest, 1990, pp. 38, 167 (following: Gonţa, Indice de locuri),
passim.
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796
Nicolae Borcea, the vornic of Petru Rareş. One can find it useful to notice
that by a document dated 1547, April 1st, this vornic was confirmed as
proprietor over the village of Făşcani together with his cousin Trifan and
the latter’ sisters, Mărie, Ana and Erina (Ivanco’s children)25
. This name
Trifan may evoke the memory of that Triful Borzescul living one century
ago, perpetuating his Christian name; consequently, considering this
supposition as true, the owners of Făşcani from 1547 derived from the
family tree of Triful Borzescu and his son Borcea.
* * *
In order to prove the fact that Borcea is an old name we mention
the derivative oiconym Borceşti. This is the name of a village on Tutova
(probably next to Cristeşti, the Puieşti commune, the county of Vaslui),
bought by Petru comis [Ezereanul] from Negrilă the vornic sons26
on
1455, August 15th27
. Because by the same document the comis Petru took
other three villages from the logofăt Mihail, this one owning also the
Lăleştii village28
– closely situated, within the same Puieşti commune –
we can wonder whether the Borceşti village had not initially belonged to
the family of Iuga of Şomuz, father of logofătul Mihail. Another Borceşti
village, on the Pârâul Alb river (situated in the Boroaia commune, the
county of Suceava) must have been in possession for a long time; thus, on
1569, March 15th
, the reigning prince Bogdan Lăpuşneanul confirms to a
certain Avram the possession over a part of the Potlogeni and Petrileşti
villages („…which are now called Borceştii…”), both of them on the
Pârâul Alb river, and a part of Căteşti and Neguşăni, properties which had
been bought with direse (documents) issued by the reigning prince
Alexandru Lăpuşneanul29
. Finaly, within the same area there was another
Borceşti village (which may be located next to the Oglinzi commune, the
25
DRH, A, VI (1546-1570), no. 6. 26
It is the case of Negrilă (Negrilaş), vornic (1427-1447) – Alexandru I. Gonţa,
Documente privind Istoria României. A. Moldova. Veacurile XIV-XVII (1384-1625).
Indicele numelor de persoane, edited and forward by I. Caproşu, Editura Academiei
Române, Bucharest, 1995, p. 30 (following: Gonţa, Indice persoane), pp. 505. 27
DRH, A, II (1449-1486), no. 49. Another place suggested is the Obârşeni village, next
to Gârdeşti, the county of Vaslui (Gonţa, Indice locuri, p. 38), which is 13 km north to
the place recommended by DRH editors. 28
DRH, A, I (1384-1448), no. 129 (document dated the 24th
of April 1434). 29
DRH, A, IV (1546-1570), no. 375.
Forefathers of the Miclescu Family
797
county of Neamţ)30
– unless it is the same with the one previously
mentioned, and next to it the reigning prince confirmed to the Zosim
Skete (the Secu Monastery) the ownership over a mill and an apiary31
.
Therefore, these last mentioned Borceşti villages were located in close
proximity of Giuleşti on the Moldova river, the place where the Julici-
Pântece family emerged from and where are the ruins of the court of
captain Giulea from 1384 and 1387 (domino Jula, Dzula capitaneus), so
within the Boroaia commune, the county of Suceava, too32
. This fact does
not lack significance if we consider some constant genealogical
connections between the persons bearing the name Borcea and this great
boyard’s descendants, whom we can without fail associate with the
beginning of Moldavian statehood.
Most probably, captain Giulea’s son must have been the pan
Danciul Julici, who in 1421 was a boyard in the reigning prince
Alexandru cel Bun’s council. Brother-in-law of Şoldan Petru33
and
probably of that ‘Stan of Şumuz’ (also called ‘Pântece’, founder of
Fulticeani), Danciul had the following offspring: Oană (‘Danculovici’),
Giula and Maruşca, who beared as names both Julici and Pântece; as a
member of the council until 1457, the first son was mentioned equally as
Oană Julici and Oană Pântece, a significant fact proving the dynamics of
mediaeval Moldavian onomastics and offering a possible parallel with the
situation of the vornic Nicolae who, although offspring of the Stărosteşti
family, built his „career” under the name of Borcea. captain Giulea’s
grandchildren would begin a large family tree, whose members would
30
Gonţa, Indice locuri, p. 39. 31
DIR, A, XVI, III (1571-1590), no. 473 (document dated the 10th
of March 1588), no.
535 (document dated the 24th
of October 1589). 32
Lia Bătrîna, Adrian Bătrîna, Ion Vatamanu, Ştefan Scorţanu, Ansamblul reşedinţei
feudale de la Giuleşti, jud. Suceava, in CA, VI, 1983, pp. 79-96; Lia Bătrîna, Octav
Monoranu, Adrian Bătrîna, Cercetările arheologice din cuprinsul reşedinţei feudale de
la Giuleşti, com. Boroaia, jud. Suceava, in CA, VII, 1984, pp. 153-163; Lia Bătrîna,
Adrian Bătrîna, Ion Vatamanu, Ştefan Scorţanu, Ansamblul reşedinţei feudale de la
Giuleşti (jud. Suceava), in MCA, XVI, Bucharest, 1986, pp. 245-252. 33
N. Iorga – BCIR, vol. 10, 1931, p. 83, comment apud Mihai Costăchescu,
Documentele moldoveneşti înainte de Ştefan cel Mare. Documente interne, urice
(ispisoace), surete, regeste, traduceri, 1374-1437, vol. I, Viaţa Românească S.A., 1931,
no. 31 – stated that this Şoldan Petru could have been Sultanul (sic!) Petru, whom,
alongside with his brother Miclăuş, obtained the village of Timurtaş’s descendants,
subsequently named Tamârtăşăuţi.
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798
have estates spread from the valleys of the rivers Şomuz and Moldova
until the centre of the Principality34
.
Amongst this family’s members, one is recalled by the country’s
military history, a certain Pântece, whose first name is unknown; he must
have been one of Oană Pântece’s sons, or one of his brother’s Giula. As
things are presented by the Moldavian-German Chronicle, on the
background of the extremely difficult situation of the Moldavian state due
to the loss of its southern boroughs, the aspirant Petru Hronoda, with
Ottoman help, repeatedly tried to throne himself in Ştefan’s place.
Following the tragic battle of 1486, March 6th
, when the reigning prince
was defeated and „…fell from the horse and lain there like one dead from
morning till noon…”, the situation was miraculously redressed by the
salutary initiative of two boyards faithful to Ştefan: the aprod Purice,
future spătar and pârcălab, who recognized the prince and took him out
of the wounded, and a certain Pântece. This is how the Chronicle presents
this event: ‘Than he took the ruler out of there, gathered his army, sent a
certain Pântece [our italics] who obeyed to the reigning prince Petru and
took him out of the battle, convincing him that the fight had been won.
And with his men beheaded Petru and took his head to the reigning prince
Ştefan. Thus Ştefan remained the only ruler in the country, by God’s
help’35
.
More blood ties have connected the members of this family to
other boyard representatives and some of them are already known (from
the lines above). For example, Lucian-Valeriu Lefter’s genealogical
investigations have led to the conclusion that Oană Julici-Pântece was
married to Vasco Levici’s sister, who in 1458 was in Cameniţa together
with Petru Aron; the latter is the son of a certain Lev and fraternal nephew
to the postelnic Hodco Costici, both of them members of princely council
between 1421 and 1438. As brothers Lev and Hodco were, more likely,
the sons of the pan Costea the Brave, also a council member between
1392 and 139936
, it appears that the great-grandparents of the sons of
Oană Julici-Pântece and of Vasco Levici’s sister were Giulea and Costea
the Brave, which proves that the founders’ families made marriages in a
„limited circle” – that is exactly how conquerors’ or colonizers’
34
Lucian-Valeriu Lefter, Neamuri şi înrudiri la boierii lui Ştefan cel Mare, in SMIM,
vol. XXVII, 2009, pp. 124-127. 35
Lucian-Valeriu Lefter, Neamuri…, p. 125. 36
Ibidem, p. 127-129.
Forefathers of the Miclescu Family
799
descendants married on all continents. Coming back to Hodco Costici of
Mamorniţa for one moment, we mention the fact that his filiation blends
itself, as regards the ownership of the estate of Vertiporoh on the Ciuhur
river, with that of the descendants of a ‘Borici the Old’37
, also called
‘Bora’s grandsons’38
, as two later documents from the 17th
century show.
At the same time, the Julici-Pântece family was connected to the
Borăşti village on the Bârlad river („at Horoiata rivulet’s mouth”); this
connection is presented by a document from ca. 1488, known by means of
a copy, through which Ştefan cel Mare confirms the Movila village,
„where Bora has been a judge” – this anthroponym makes us think of the
above mentioned person but also of Şandru Bora, pârcălab of Chilia in
148739
– to Pătru Frunteş, his grandson the stolnic Ion Frunteş and others.
The village had been bought with 200 Tatar zlotys from „…our servants
the jupân Jurcă Pântice and his brother Petriman and their sister Sofiia,
children of Ion Julici (…) from the uric (sic) of his father Ion Julici, who
has had it from our uncles [the late reigning princes] Ilieş and Ştefan in
their livehood…’40
. A note should be made on the fact that even though
the document would been considered the Borăşti village’s uric, this
oiconym does not appear within the text.
More information appears on 1606, March 30th
, in a document
showing how the Borcea family filiation blends itself to the same village,
Borăştii – this name appears for the first time – „at Horoiata rivulet’s
mouth, where Bora has been a judge”. On this occasion, a certain Costin
and his sister Sofiica, the children of the paharnic Borce and the
grandchildren of the „old Jul” (i.e. Giulea), sell a quarter of the village to
the mare căminar Toader Chiriac for 60 silver lei41
. Considering the fact
that at the beginning of the 17th
century old Jul’s grandchildren were still
the owners of a quarter of the Borăşti village, it appears that the Julici-
Pântece family had kept possessions on the same location even after the
end of the 15th
century. At the same time, we believe that the documents
dated ca. 1488 and 1606 might refer to two different villages located at
Horoiata’s mouth, both connected to Bora’s memory and in full or partly
37
DIR, A, XVII, V (1621-1625), no. 160 (document dated the 4th
of April 1622). 38
DIR, A, XVII, I (1601-1605), no. 94 (document dated the 28th
of August 1603). 39
Lucian-Valeriu Lefter, Moştenirea celor dintâi sfetnici ai lui Ştefan cel Mare, in AP-
Putna, IV, 2008, p. 159. 40
DRH, A, III (1487-1504), no. 21. 41
DIR, A, XVII, II (1606-1610), no. 19.
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800
possession of the Julici-Pântece family. This family’s ownership was of
ancient times if we consider that the document of 1606 reminds us about
‘a privilege granted by his function’ from old voivode Alexandru
(Alexandru cel Bun).
Unfortunately, the image of that paharnic Borce, who was
probably dead by 1606, remains difficult to outline. Two documents from
the first quarter of the 17th
century refer to a certain ceaşnic Borcea,
whose granddaughters Sofiica and Cadachia were completing transactions
with more estates from the Neamţ and Roman regions42
. Even though
Alexandru Gonţa43
assumes that the paharnic Borcea from 1606 was the
same person as the ceaşnic Borcea, it is difficult to set a single identity.
Though, we can recall the mention of a certain Danciul, grandfather of
Ca[n]dachia and the beneficiary of a certain reigning prince Petru’s
document of sharing, as an argument to this conclusion. If this mention
refers to that Danciul Pardos who was the grandfather (?) of Silion and his
brothers from 1567, mentioned as sons of a certain Borcea, than there are
some probabilities that this person living in the mid-16th
century would
have been equally the father of those from 1567 and the grandfather of the
two ladies from the first part of the following century, i. e. members of a
single bloodline. Unfortunately these onomastic similarities cannot be
supported by further investigation about the mentioned supposition due to
property course.
Returning to the ownership of the Borăşti on Horoiata estate, we
find out that, at some uncertain moment, the „old Jul” and the judge
Bora’s families must have become related. We mention that on 1558,
42
DIR, A, XVII, IV (1616-1620), no. 580 (document dated 1620, April 13th
),
respectively DIR, A, XVII, V (1621-1625), no. 30 (document dated 1621, March 23rd
).
In the first document, Sofiica, grand-daughter of the ceaşnic Borcea, sells to the vornic
Ştefan Prăjescul’s children her share of Iteşti, meaning the fourth part from a village’s
half (village located in the Neamţ region, today probably in the county of Bacău). The
second document refers to what the marele spătar Lupul Dragotă bought in the villages
of Păiceni and Cărăuleşti (both located near the origin of the Zeletin river, next to the
Odobeşti village, the Secuieni commune, the county of Bacău), and in Ciutureşti at
Cobâle (also Bacău), all in the Roman region. His cneaghina, Candachia, is referred to
as the daughter of a certain Vasilie and grand daughter of the ceaşnic Borcea; the
document attests the confirmation of the ownership of the lands inherited from her
grandparent Danciul showed in the dividing document issued by the reigning prince
Petru, namely the villages of Şerbăneşti and Jişcani on the Bistriţa river (today within the
Bacău municipality). 43
Gonţa, Indice personae, p. 79.
Forefathers of the Miclescu Family
801
April 6th44
, the diac Mihăilă [Bora] was confirmed by the reigning prince
Alexandru Lăpuşneanu with „…the village named Leontina (…), now
called Borăştii…”; in the sixth volume of the „Documenta Romaniae
Historica” series, the editor Ion Caproşu placed this village also on the
Horoiata rivulet (within the present territory of the Unţeşti village, the
present Bogdăneşti commune, the county of Vaslui)45
. Most probably,
this diac must have been a descendant of the judge Bora in the same
manner as half of a century later his descendant was that paharnic Borcea
who appeared also as Giulea’s descendant. In this context, Bora and
Borcea seem to be names derived from the same root (Bor) – as Gheorghe
Ghibănescu46
suggested – and the fact that these persons’ ownership
coincide with that of the Julici-Pântece family shows immemorial
kinships as well as a remote commune origin leading to Giulea, captain of
Petru I.
We also recall the fact that in the already mentioned document
from 1606 the persons selling land to the mare căminar Chiriac included
also the „…grandsons Fărâmă, great-grandsons of Oană Giulici…”47
(from the latter’s grant, given by the reigning prince Iliaş for his service).
For 60 silver thalers they were alienating a quarter from the siliştea Iapa,
„at the Fântâna top” with a mill in Bârlad, in the Tutova region (in the
neighbourhood of the Banca commune, the county of Vaslui, which is not
really far away from the former village of Borăşti). Although rarely
appearing in the historical research48
, the Fărâmă family had possessions
situated at wide distances, like a lot of other land owners. The Fărâmă
family derived from Giulea’s family line from 1384 and 1387, and this
fact is presented in the document dated 1636, April 16th
, confirming to the
Secu Monastery some parts of inherited land in Giuleşti, „… which is in
the Suceava region, on the Moldova river…” (that is the exact village
44
DHR, A, XVI, VI (1546-1570), no. 219 (this document is known due to more copies;
the 1746 complainants presented the original, which would subsequently be lost). 45
This localization of the Borăşti village is also asserted by Mircea Ciubotaru, Comuna
Ipatele. I. Studiu istoric. Toponimie, Editura Apollonia, Iaşi, 2000, p. 32, and by Horia
Stamatin, Valea Horăieţii – istorie şi onomastică de la origine până în prezent, Editura
Tiparul, Bârlad, 2003, p. 102. 46
Gheorghe Ghibănescu, loc. cit. 47
Practically, it is the case of Tetul, son of Şteful, together with Anghelina, „ficior
Mocanii” and Dragoş, son of Achim. 48
Mircea Ciubotaru, Toponimia bazinului hidrografic Rebricea (jud. Iaşi - jud. Vaslui).
Oiconimele. Pespectivă istorică (II), in AIIAI, XXIX, 1992, pp. 424-425, 427.
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802
where the court of the reigning prince Petru’s captain had been located),
parts that had been presented to the monastery’s parish by the former
vornic Ionaşco Mogâldea, who himself had bought them from Ştefan, son
of Ioniţă Fărâmă, and other relatives49
. Consequently, we are dealing with
one and the same family, in spite of the 156 km separating Giuleşti from
the siliştea of Bârlad which could suggest the opposite! The ancient
„cradle” of the Julici-Pântece family (with other derived forms of this
name) as well as of the families issued from it – like the Fărâmăs – may
be traced at the confluence of the Şomuzul Rece and the Moldova rivers,
a few kilometers away from Baia, the Principality’s first capital.
Furthermore, the oiconyms Boroaia50
(the commune including nowadays
the Giuleşti village), Bărăşti (village in the same commune Boroaia) and
– as we have already seen before – Borceşti on the Pârâul Alb river,
respectively, show that there are reasons for an etymologic parallel
between these designations and the antroponym Bora, respectively.
On 1604, October 1st, the Giuleşti village had been given by the
mare vornic Nestor Ureche and the vornic Ion Mogâldea to „our newly
built” monastery of Xiropotam (from the Mount Athos)51
. The donors
were brothers-in-law since their wives Mitrofana and Salomia were the
daughters of the păhărnicel Ionaşco Jora52
. Also Ionaşco Jora’s
descendant (probably a son-in-law?) was a certain Miera, vătaf and
pârcălab; on 1646, February 2nd
, the latter’s descendants – including the
historiographer Grigore Ureche, the mare sluger Gheorghiţă Ştefan
(future reigning prince), Ionaşco II Jora (the păhărnicel’s direct grandson)
and others – share „their uncle’s” heritage including the Criceşti village in
the Vaslui region53
. This village must be the same with nowadays
Chirceşti54
from the Micleşti commune (the county of Vaslui)55
, meaning
49
DRH, A, XXIII (1635-1636), no. 402. 50
*** Tezaur toponimic al României. Moldova. Volumul 1. Repertoriul istoric al
unităţilor administrativ-teritoriale. 1772-198. Partea 1. A. Unităţi simple (localităţi şi
moşii), A-O, Editura Academiei Române, Bucharest, 1991, p. 119. 51
DIR, A, XVII, I (1601-1605), no. 257. 52
Ştefan S. Gorovei, Înrudirile cronicarului Grigore Ureche, in ALIL, XXIV, 1973, pp.
112, 115 and Table I. 53
Ibidem, p. 112-113, apud. CDM, vol. II (1621-1652), no. 1848. 54
Here on 1648, November 24th
, appears as witness that Ionaşco Triţchi (Trischie) of
Gugeşti, about whom one assumed that he might be the same person as the diac Ionaşco,
father of Gligorie of Micleşti – apud Mircea Ciubotaru, Desluşiri. 55
Gonţa, Indice locuri, p. 73.
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803
that Ionaşco Jora’s ancestors from an ancient family56
had owned land
exactly in the Miclescu boyards’s birth place. We add the fact that
Toderaşco, the păhărnicel Ionaşco Jora’s father, mentioned in 1529, was
Giurgiu Pântece’s grandchild (his daughter’s son)57
. Moreover, it is
known the fact that a certain Pântece (the text does not provide his first
name) sold the villages of Şuliteşti and Maxineşti on the Crasna river
(next to the Manţu village, the Tătărăni commune, the county of Vaslui,
17 km downstream of Micleşti) to former vistiernic Ilea, whose great-
great-grandchildren had been confirmed as landlords by princely decision
on 1548, April 5th58
. Therefore, it results that during a century and a half
after the Foundation of the State, the Julici-Pântece family had owned a
domain between the Vaslui and the Crasna rivers including many villages
and this domain had been inherited and divided by captain Giulea’s
numerous offspring, male and female.
Although with a certain common origin, the Ureche, Jora,
Mogâlde59
and Fărâmă60
families had different „careers”. Nevertheless,
56
Sergiu Bacalov, Activitatea neamului Joreştilor în Ţara Moldovei în secolul al XVIII-
lea – începutul secolului al XVIII-lea, in the volume „Românii în afara graniţelor ţării.
Iaşi-Chişinău: legături istorice”, coordinated by Iulian Pruteanu-Isăcescu, Casa
Editorială Demiurg, Iaşi, 2008, pp. 55-56 (historiography concerning the Jora family’s
beginings). 57
Ştefan S. Gorovei, op. cit., Table I. 58
DRH, A, VI (1546-1570), no. 30. 59
Ştefan S. Gorovei, op. cit., pp. 115-119 (the Jora family), 119-124 (the Mogâldea
family) and 124 (the Ureche-Jora-Mogâldea genealogical connections). 60
On the surface, the Fărâmăs (Fărâmeştii), originated in the Crăciuneşti village on the
Rebricea valley (having posessions in Negreşti and Miclăuşeni, all in the Vaslui region),
shapes itself as an individual family following the bloodline of the famous diac Eremia
Băseanul. Although there is no sure information of how and when they settled down in
Crăciuneşti, it is known that at mid-17th
century the Fărâmăs owned lands in both parts
of the estate; we have information about a marriage (from 1700) between a Fărâmă man
and a lady issued from the diac (Mircea Ciubotaru, Toponimia…, p. 425). By means of
this marriage – and probably some others still unknown (about Băseanu’s fruitful
bloodline see also idem, Un “homo novus” al secolelor XVI-XVII: uricarul Ieremia
Băseanul, in ArhGen, I (VI), 1994, 3-4, pp. 10-11) – the Fărâmăs, just like the Joras,
obtained a part of the Crăciuneşti village; nevertheless, they must have come from a
different place, because their settlement in Crăciuneşti is due exclusively to marrying
their daughters in the Băseanu family. Of course, there are no documents showing the
connection between the Fărâmăs of Crăciuneşti and other genealogical homonymic
stems; in the same time, there are no arguments to categorically infirm the Fărâmăs’s
belonging to families with the same name owning properties on the Moldova or the
Bârlad rivers. We remind the successive estrangements made by different Fărâmăs in
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they were connected by the mutual possession of several estates situated,
as we have already noticed, in three main points: on the Moldova river, on
the Bârlad river61
and on the Vaslui river (including the Crasna river),
respectively. Despite all differences in wealth and political influence, it is
interesting to point out that the proof that the last three families had
common ancestors comes out right from the fact that they were to remain
for a while connected to certain possessions. Amongst them, we should
recall once again the Borăşti village at the Horoiata’s mouth which is
mentioned in many documents concerning the purchases made by the Jora
family in these places during the whole 17th
century62
.
* * *
Having a nice career in the reigning prince’s sfat (council) and
administration by which he practically brought his family in the category
of high boyards, the comis, postelnic and then paharnic Gligorie
(Grigorie) from Micleşti († 1667), son of the diac Ionaşcu, was only one
of the pillars of the village whose name he bore. Following the example
of other freeholder villages, the Micleşti village was split between several
owners, more or less blood-related but surely descending from a common
stem. In the given context, investigating these co-owning families helps
us better outline the bloodline and subsequently the existing genealogical
mechanisms.
While researching his own family, the author has discovered many
mentions about different persons bearing the name of Tiron and related to
the Micleşti village and the neighbouring locations. Thus, in 1620-1621, a
lady from the Micleşti village gave her possession in Berindeşti (today
part of Micleşti) to pay off the loss produced to some of Tiron’s
Giuleşti on the Moldova river, as well as in the siliştea Iapa on the Bârlad Valley, in
order to illustrate the family members’ mobility and explain its appearance in
Crăciuneşti. In conclusion, we think that we are facing the one and the same family. 61
On 1657, April 30th
, the reigning prince Gheorghe Ştefan commands Mogâldea of
Neamţ to take freeholder Ioan Fărâmă out of Crăciuneşti, Toderaşcu Jora’s property,
because he together with others have unrightfully settled there – BAR-București,
Documente istorice, CMXCIX/104. 62
BAR-București, Documente istorice, MCDXCVI/18 (document dated 1679, August
4th
), MCDLVIII/94 (document dated 1680), DXIII/67 (document dated 1681, January
the 17th
) etc.
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bovines63
. On 1641, May 10th
, a certain Tiron of Micleşti was a witness to
a purchase in Popeşti, the Vaslui region64
, by the former (biv) postelnic
Gligorie (that is the diac Ionaşco’s son), at that time vornic of Botoşani.
In the same year Nicoară, Maghina and Kelsia, the offspring of a Tiron
from Popeşti, were selling to the same Gligorie their inherited estate in
the siliştea of the Moiceşti village for 20 galbeni65
. A document from
about 1660-1664 states the fact that a Tiron from Micleşti had regained
from Mihalache, son of the vornic Ionaşcu, a part of the Dolheşti village
on the Crasna river, previously pawned for one person’s death66
. On 1662,
March 5th
, referring to the same pawn, they mention Tudor (sic!) and his
son-in-law Pavel (of Olăneşti)67
, while the witnesses were Tudor of
Dolheşti, Tiron, Irimie Druţul and others68
. As a conclusion, these
mentions seem to refer to more generations of the Tirons whose
possessions were linked to other villages – Berindeşti, Moiceşti, Popeşti,
Dolheşti – situated in close proximity to the village of Micleşti69
.
Probably there was a single family having possessions in several villages
at the same time; initially also linked to the Micleşti village, this family
would gradually move to different estates due to the fact that all parts of
63
DIR, A, XVII, IV (1616-1620), no. 630 (document dated 7129 - < 1620, September 1st
– 1621, August 31st>).
64 Gheorghe Ghibănescu, Surete şi izvoade, vol. III, p. 219.
65 Ibidem, pp. 239-240 (document dated 7149 - < 1640, September 1
st – 1641, August
31st>).
66 CDM, III (1653-1675), doc. 617, p. 146. A document with a similar content, given by
the same Mihalache and dated ca. 1690 (!) appears in CDM, supplement I (1403-1700),
doc. 1002, p. 316. 67
From these must descend that Tiron of Olăneşti, also mentioned as a witness and a
hotarnic at the end of the 17th
century (documents dated 1691, January 8th
, 1691, June
26th
, 1693, March 1st, etc.) – Gheorghe Ghibănescu, Surete şi izvoade, vol. VIII, pp. 324-
325, XVII, p. 108 and, Idem, Ispisoace şi zapise, vol. IV, pp. 198-199. 68
CDM, III (1653-1675), doc. 771, p. 176. 69
To the same effect we bear in mind the fact that the biv postelnic Gligorie had bought
land in the Totoieşti village, too (DRH, A, XXVI (1641-1642), no. 40, document dated
1641, February 26th
), where, one hundred years after, „Tiron’s pillar” – ‘pillar’ as share
of the estate – was still remembered, the owner being a certain biv vel căpitan Ion
Bănariul (*** Condica lui Constantin Mavrocordat, introduction, notes, indices and
glossary made by Corneliu Istrati, vol. II, Editura Universităţii „Al. I. Cuza”, Iaşi, 2008,
pp. 334-335, no. 1066, documents dated 1742, July 30th
and 1742, December 20th
). Most
probably the ancestors of the Miclescus and the Tirons shared for a while the ownership
of the Totoieşti estate (former village, next to Şerboteşti, the county of Vaslui, in the
close neighbourhood of the Micleşti village).
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the mentioned village were to be bought – also gradually – by Gligorie of
Micleşti who set his main residence here70
.
One may assume that, to a certain point, the ascendance of
Gligorie and that of Tiron of Micleşti was the same. The information is
indirect but may be useful to establish the beginnings of the Miclescu
family. Thus, 1676, February 28th
, a certain Alboeş and his nephews were
having a dispute at the border of the Borăştii de Jos estate – oiconym
sustaining the supposition referring to the existence of two homonymous
villages – on the Horoiata Valley71
; from the same estate on August 1st
(the same year) a certain Gafia Alboae, daughter of Fulger, was
presenting her share to Paladi vornic of Bârlad for her parents’ souls72
.
Then, on 1677, January 28th
, a certain Alba from Glodeni (most probably,
it must be the case of an „Alba’s”), daughter of Tiron from Micleşti,
together with her husband Dumbravă sold a part from the estate left by
Alba’s father73
. Finally, two documents from the same year mention the
ownership of Istratie and other ‘Alboaia’s grandchildren’ in Borăştii de
Jos74
. So the mentioned information refer to both male and female issue
of a certain Alba, a jupâneasă who was no more alive in the eight decade
of the 17th
century, but who had been the daughter of Tiron of Micleşti
and who had transmitted the ownership over the inherited estates in the
Borăşti village on the Horoiata Valley, that being the very village of the
judge Bora and captain Giulea’s grandchildren.
We remind the fact that in Borăşti on Horoiata in 1558 there was
another owner, too, that is the diac Mihăilă [Bora]; this owner was
presented in a document from 1746, July 9th75
as an ascendant
(„forefather”) of the vornic de poartă Neculai Tiron, also called Banul
(1739-1760). Considering these documents, we believe that it is justified
to think that both the Tirons of the Micleşti village (descendants of the
judge Bora for the Borăşti possession) and Neculai Tiron (descendant of
the diac Mihăilă [Bora]) were issued from the family line of the old
70
Mircea Ciubotaru, Desluşiri. 71
BAR-București, Documente istorice, MCDLVIII/87. 72
BAR-București, Documente istorice, MCDLVIII/89. 73
BAR-București, Documente istorice, MCCCXXXI/48. 74
BAR-București, Documente istorice, MCDLVIII/91-92, 93 (documents dated 1677,
March 30th
, and 1677, May 1st).
75 SJAN-Iaşi, Documente, 425/85 (original) and BAR-București, Documente istorice,
CLI/12 (copy). See also Mircea Ciubotaru, op. cit., pp. 39-40.
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owners of Borăşti on Horoiata76
. We saw that in 1606 the same stem
represented the origin of the children of that paharnic Borce,
grandchildren of ‘old Jul’, owning and selling a part of the Borăşti village.
We do not think that it was an „accident” the fact that several decades
later the owners in the Micleşti village were both the descendants of
vornic Borcea – certainly from the same family with the mentioned
paharnic Borce – and the Tirons77
, the latter still owning some parts of
Borăşti on Horoiata.
* * *
All these direct and indirect arguments support each other just like
a dome’s arches. On these lines, the Miclescu boyards appear as
descendants – altogether with other families – of the judge Bora’s
family line, as well as of that of Giulea, captain from Maramureş (as
his name shows) during Petru I, reigning prince of Moldavia78
. Another
argument to support this idea is the fact that the Julici-Pântece family, just
like the „Stărosteşti” family, had properties within an area between Vaslui
and Crasna, where the Micleşti village is situated along with neighbouring
settlements.
Who was this judge Bora? – there is a question which one may not
answer to without the support of some ideas partially based on
76
Tiron from Micleşti must be the same person with Tiron from Şcheia, son of Hiraton
(Hariton) from Borăşti on Vilna (village attested only at the end of the 16th
century, yet it
can be related to the memory of a Bora). Generally speaking, the data referring to this
Tiron living between <1617> and 1659 and the ones referring to Tiron from Micleşti
synchronize – cf. Marcel-Dumitru Ciucă, Silvia Vătafu-Găitan, Colecţia Achiziţii Noi.
Indice cronologic, no. 25, vol. I (the end of the 13th
century - 1685), Romanian National
Archives, Bucharest, 2002, no. 809, respectively N. Iorga, Studii şi documente, vol. III,
2nd
part, pp. 143-144. By his sons Gheorghe and Dumitraşcu, Tiron from Şcheia must
have fathered those several ‘stalks’ of Tirons attested as boyards and freeholders in the
villages of the north part of the Vaslui old region. 77
There are more arguments for the Tirons’ ascendance to a certain Bora, this one could
be both the diac with the same name and the homonym judge from the Horoiata water.
For example, mazilii Lazor of Suhuleţ – mentioned in 1746 as descendants, along with
Neculai Tiron, of the diac Mihăilă [Bora] – owned their share of village ‘from
Borăscul’s heritage’ (document dated 1760, May 20th
) – BAR-București, Documente
istorice, DCCXXVIII/61. 78
George-Felix Taşcă, Ascendenţa paternă maramureşeană a lui Giula „capitaneus”
(1384), in ArhGen, IV (IX), 1997, no.3-4, pp. 127-132.
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documents, which there is no longer the case to insist on. Yet one should
observe though that the ascendance of another group of families – the
Joras (Jorăştii), the Mogâldes (Mogâldeştii), the Fărâmăs (Fărâmeştii) –
related to oiconyms clearly derived from the name of this remote person
(Boroaia, Bărăşti, Borăşti, etc.), and simultaneously associated to the
memory of the Julici-Pântece family. In the same time, indirect proves
connect the memory of a Bora – is he the same with the homonym judge?
– to captain Giulea’s family; we remember the Vertiporoh estate on the
Ciuhur river, belonging to the offspring of Borici/Bora who also
descended from the postelnic Hodco Costici, who, on his turn, had been
the great uncle on maternal side of the three Julici-Pântece brothers that
were land owners in 1488 on the Horoiata water.
We finally see how the possessions of these ancient families of the
country moved initially from the neighbourhood of the first Moldavian
capital till the Lower Land on the Vaslui river (where the vornic Nicolae
Borcea had his estates), or on the Horoiata Valley (where the paharnic
Borce had his estates); subsequently, developing their careers and
becoming kin of other important boyard families of the country, the
Miclescu boyards gained estates in the Principality’s northern part,
reconstructing the path undertaken by their forefathers in the first
centuries after Foundation.
