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The foundations of Matei Basarab in Călăraşi (Negoieşti, Plătăreşti and Mănăstirea)

  • TITLU în română: Ctitoriile lui Matei Basarab din judeţul Călăraşi: Negoieşti, Plătăreşti şi Mănăstirea
  • Subiect: Many documents written in the Medieval Ages mention the villages and monasteries in the Eastern part of Muntenia Plains. Amang these are the ones at Negoiesti, Cornatei and Platarasti. The church of the former monastery of Negoiesti is located on Bucuresti Oltenita road, at kilometer number 42. The first documents that give information about the construction of a church at Negoiesti date back to year 1624. lt seems that the foundation stane was laid by the purveyor Stanciu, in the time of voivode Radu Serban. Apparently, the purveyor Stanciu, after having begun the construction of this church, was deposed from office by voivode Matei Basarab, for unknown reasons. Ali his domains were given to other high officials by the ruter. ln Negoiesti there is a/so a mansion of Matei Basarab 's. And the church was finished by Elina, the ruter 's wife. One other important aspect tht has to be mentioned is the fact that the ruler Matei Basarab often decided on important matters of the country while in Negoiesti. The church of Platarasti monastery (today parish church in Platarasti, Calarasi) was built to commemorate the fight in 1632 between voivode Matei Basarab and the Tartars that were helping Radu (son of Alexandru Ilies), the ruler of Moldavia. Matei Basarab also came back to the old settlement of Platarasti (given to the monastery of Tanganu through a document on 14th of May 1580 signed by Mihnea Voivode) on the day before one of the fights with Vasile Lupu, who was seeking to take rufe of the country. This battle took place in 1639 at Nenisor (today called Armasesti), above lalomita river. The rotive in the church porch, written in Romanian, says that Plataresti monastery was built by Matei Basarab and his wife Elina, the subprefect was pan Albu Cluceru, whose tomb is in the pronaos of the church (date of death: May 20th 1645). After Matei Basarab's death the construction was continued by hisfather, Mitrea Pitarul. The church was finished on April 3rd, 1646. The church in the village of Manastirea (the former town of Cornatei) was built „ During the rule and on the command of the great and luminous voivode and ruler of the Roman ian Country, Matei Basarab, who is its founder in the year 1648, month of July, day 25 and is dedicated to the honour and glory of the martyr saint Nestor ". The construction was surrounded by high walls, with cells for shelter, with hard oak doors, reinforced and locked according to the times they were built in. The windo ws had pointed shape, there were large stane blocks as floors and the church had a clapboard roof. To sum up, the three churches have the following common elements: -they are built during the rule of Matei Basarab, by this voivode and his wife Elina, an the Eastern side of the Muntenia Plains. -they were built primarily aut of religious reasons, considering the facts that the voivode had a manor-a summer mansion at Negoiesti and that the village of Cornatei was in great need of a church -they had a deffensive role, too, because they were built in a century when the attacks of the Turks and the Tartars were very frequent. The ruler fortified them by building protection walls and settled them in important strategic locations. -they have gained an important cultural and educational role.
  • Limba de redactare: română, engleză
  • Secţiunea: Aşezări şi ctitorii medievale
  • Vezi publicația: Studii şi Articole de Istorie: SAI
  • Loc publicare: Călăraşi
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2010
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: 77; anul 2010; subtitlu: Cursurile de vară ale societăţii de Ştiinţe Istorice din România
  • Paginaţia: 81-96
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