Talk:Alexandros Mavrokordatos

Was he a prince?
From what I know Maurokordatos was not a prince. He did not have any title! Not from Russia definitely. Where is such information? Seleukosa 15:12, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

It is of course a truth that republican Greeks do not like the titled princes. However, Prime Minister Alexandros Mavrokordatos' patrilineal direct ancestor Nicolae Mavrocordat (d 1730) was, since 1710, a ruling monarch of a monarchy, both Moldavia and Valachia, and therefore several other countries (apparently, others than Greece), such as the monarchy's country Romania in the 1800s, recognize the descendants as title holders of prince. However, if someone does not recognize this princely rank, then the alternative is Alexandros is also a Count, being legitimate male-line descendant of a man, an earlier Dr. Alexandros Mavrokordatos, who in c1699 received the title of HRR Reichsgraf, hereditarily comital, from the then Holy Roman Emperor, Leopoldus I. Simply said, Prime Minister Mavrokordatos descends from a family that had been affirmed as aristocratic already before his birth. 2001:14BA:485C:F700:25BB:D:C623:E0A6 (talk) 23:19, 26 December 2021 (UTC)

Assessment comment
Substituted at 07:14, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

genealogical table
The ancestry tabulation now in his biography article, is in many ways rubbish. I have particularly two gripes: 1) his paternal grandmother Smaragda is surely not a Cantacuzina, as a daughter of a man killed in 1688 is not easily making babies to a husband who is born in about the 1710s. 1688-dying man's any daughter would not be biologically even capable to conceive children after about 1735. Better genealogy publications have researchd the said Smaragda/Smaranda to be daughter of the Ghiorghiodi Suldzaroglu boier family. 2) his mother Smaragda should rather be daughter of the illustrious Georgios Karatzas (and not of his kinsman the ruler Nicolae Caragea), because Alexandros Mavrokordatos and his (in Greece lived) sisters are in literature several times mentioned as nieces and nephew of ruler Ioan Gheorghe Caragea Karatzas. 2001:14BA:485C:F700:25BB:D:C623:E0A6 (talk) 23:27, 26 December 2021 (UTC)