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Ștefan Tomșa

Field	Value
name	Ștefan Tomșa
succession	Prince of Moldavia
reign1	August 1563 – March 1564
predecessor1	Iacob Heraclid
successor1	Alexandru Lăpușneanu
issue	Ștefan IX Tomșa, Leon Tomșa
house	Bogdan-Mușat
house-type	Dynasty
birth_date	unknown
death_date	5 May 1564
death_place	Lviv
religion	Orthodox

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Ștefan Tomșa or Ștefan VII (; died 5 May 1564) was the ruler of Moldavia in 1563 and 1564.

Biography

Tomșa served as hatman and came to power as leader of a boyar revolt against the Lutheran Ioan Iacob Heraclid, whose attempts to impose the new usages in Moldavia offended the Eastern Orthodox sensibilities of nobles. Ioan Iacob, better known in Romanian history as Despot Vodă, sought refuge in the city of Suceava.

Ștefan Tomșa was claimed the ruler of Moldavia on 8 August 1563. Suceava fell to Ştefan Tomșa's forces in October 1563, and the new ruler killed his predecessor with a mace.

Ștefan Tomșa defeated an invasion by the neighbouring Wallachian prince Petru cel Tânăr, but was unable to obtain recognition by the Ottoman Empire as ruler of Wallachia. Alexandru Lăpușneanu, who had been deposed by Ioan Iacob in 1561, was returned to power with Ottoman assistance in January 1564, and Ștefan Tomșa fled to neighbouring Poland.

Tomșa was imprisoned with his boyars in Buczacz. On the request of the Sultan boyars were sent to Turkey. The Sultan wanted also Ștefan Tomșa. Tomșa on the request of the Polish King Sigismund II Augustus was sentenced to death and beheaded in Lwów on 5 May 1564. He was buried in Lwów.

His sons were later rulers of the principalities, Ștefan IX Tomșa in Moldavia, and Leon Tomșa in Wallachia.

Footnotes

before=Ioan Iacob Heraclid| title=Ruler of Moldavia| years=August 1563 – March 1564| after=Alexandru Lăpușneanu second reign

References

Spieralski, Zdzisław. (1967). "Awantury mołdawskie". Wiedza Powszechna.
Spieralski, Zdzisław. (1967). "Awantury mołdawskie". Wiedza Powszechna.

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