Vasile Lupu

Vasile Lupu
Prince of Moldavia (1st reign)
Reign	April 1634 – 13 April 1653
Predecessor	Moise Movilă
Successor	Gheorghe Ștefan
Prince of Moldavia (2nd reign)
Reign	8 May – 16 July 1653
Predecessor	Gheorghe Ștefan
Successor	Gheorghe Ștefan
Born	1595 Arbanasi?
Died	1661 Constantinople
Issue	Ștefăniță Lupu Ruxandra Lupu Maria Lupu
Father	Neculai
Religion	Orthodox

Lupu Coci, known as Vasile Lupu (Romanian pronunciation: [vaˈsile ˈlupu]; 1595–1661), was a Voivode of Moldavia of Albanian and Greek origin between 1634 and 1653. Lupu had secured the Moldavian throne in 1634 after a series of complicated intrigues and managed to hold it for twenty years. Vasile was a capable administrator and a brilliant financier and was soon almost the richest man in the Christian East. His gifts to Ottoman leaders kept him on good terms with the Ottoman authorities.