Abstract
The hospodar of Moldavia, Ieremia Movilă (1595−1606) tried from the beginning of his reign to approach the King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Sigismund III. In a first stage, ignored by the latter, he appealed to the mediation of Chancellor Jan Zamoyski to get in touch with the King. This fact must be considered as the result of several factors: on the one hand the hospodar of Moldavia, as a Polish nobleman, was the subject of the monarch, secondly he was his vassal, and no less important, he sought in Sigismund III a counterbalance to Jan Zamoyski’s politics towards him and Moldavia. Equally, the relationship with the King was important for the hospodar from the perspective of the diplomatic and military protection that “the King and the Republic” exercised over him and the country.
Keywords
Ieremia Movilă, Jan Zamoyski, patronage, Sigismund III, vassal
