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BRANCOVAN, or BRANCOVRANU

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 419 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BOS-BRI
BRANCOVAN, or BRANCOVRANU , the name of a family which has played an important
part
  in the history of Rumania. It was of Servian origin and was connected with the family of Branko or Brankovich.
Constantine
 
Brancovan
 , the most eminent member of the family, was born in 1654, and became prince of Walachia in 1689. In consequence of his
anti
 -Turkish policy of forming an alliance first with Austria and then with
Russia
 , he was denounced to the Porte, deposed from his throne, brought under arrest to
Constantinople
  and imprisoned (171o) in the fortress of Yedi Kuleh (Seven Towers). Here he was tortured by the Turks, who hoped thus to discover the fortune of 3,000,000, which
Constantine
  was alleged to have amassed. He was be-headed with his four sons on the 26th of August 1714. His faithful friend Enake Vacarescu shared his fate. Constantine
Brancovan
  became, through his tragic death, the hero of Rumanian popular
ballads
 . His family founded and endowed the largest
hospital
 
    See Also:
in Walachia, the so-called Spital Brancovanescu.
See O. G. Lecca, Familiile Boeresti Romdne (
Bucharest
 , 1899), p. 90, sqq. (M. G.)


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