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== History == |
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The origins of the Soutzos family are unclear. Some authors theorize [[Albania|Albanian]],<ref>{{Cite book |last1=A ́goston |first1=Ga ́bor |title=Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire |last2=Masters |first2=Bruce Alan |date=2008 |publisher=Infobase Publishing, NY |isbn=978-0-8160-6259-1 |page=458}} "...the Ghikas and Soutsos families were of Albanian origin..."</ref> or [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantine Greek]] descent<ref>{{Cite book |last=Newman |first=Peter C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=flEMQoDtZtkC |title=The Canadian Establishment |date=1989 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |isbn=978-0-7710-6778-5 |pages=474 |language=en |quote=The Soutzo family were Phanariots , Greeks of Byzantine descent}}</ref> for the family. |
The origins of the Soutzos family are unclear. Some authors theorize [[Albania|Albanian]],<ref>{{Cite book |last1=A ́goston |first1=Ga ́bor |title=Encyclopedia of the Ottoman Empire |last2=Masters |first2=Bruce Alan |date=2008 |publisher=Infobase Publishing, NY |isbn=978-0-8160-6259-1 |page=458}} "...the Ghikas and Soutsos families were of Albanian origin..."</ref> or [[Byzantine Greeks|Byzantine Greek]] descent<ref>{{Cite book |last=Newman |first=Peter C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=flEMQoDtZtkC |title=The Canadian Establishment |date=1989 |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |isbn=978-0-7710-6778-5 |pages=474 |language=en |quote=The Soutzo family were Phanariots , Greeks of Byzantine descent}}</ref> for the family. Its first members appear in the 17th century in Constantinople, while it is assumed that it descended from the Drakou family of [[Epirus]]. It is speculated that one of the members had an important role in the plumbing of Constantinople. Since then the [[Turks]] called the Dragons ''Soutzides'' and the Greeks used the more Greek ''Soutsos''.<ref>Πολυχρόνης Ενεπεκίδης, ''Οι Σούτσοι εις το Παρίσι'', στο: Ρήγας-Υψηλάντης-Καποδίστριας. Έρευναι εις τα αρχεία της Αυστρίας, Γερμανίας, Ιταλίας, Γαλλίας και Ελλάδας, ed. Βιβλιοπωλείον της Εστίας, Athens, 1965, p. 268</ref> |
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Konstantinos Drako, son of a rhetor of the patriarchate (Diamantaki Drako), was the man who was first Soutzos to rise to prominence.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} He married in 1714 princess Maria Rusetaina, daughter of a long-established Phanariote family (her mother was Helena Mavrokordataina and her paternal grandfather Antonie had under Ottoman overlordship even held the princely rule in the Danubian countries).{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} Konstantinos' in-laws raised Konstantinos to high positions in Danubian principalities, and his sons were kin with everybody who mattered in Phanar. Later, in 1780s..1790s, one of the sons (Mihai Draco-Sutzu) rose to the thrones of Walachia and Moldavia and was the first Prince of their surname.{{Citaiton needed|date=August 2022}} |
Konstantinos Drako, son of a rhetor of the patriarchate (Diamantaki Drako), was the man who was first Soutzos to rise to prominence.{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} He married in 1714 princess Maria Rusetaina, daughter of a long-established Phanariote family (her mother was Helena Mavrokordataina and her paternal grandfather Antonie had under Ottoman overlordship even held the princely rule in the Danubian countries).{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}} Konstantinos' in-laws raised Konstantinos to high positions in Danubian principalities, and his sons were kin with everybody who mattered in Phanar. Later, in 1780s..1790s, one of the sons (Mihai Draco-Sutzu) rose to the thrones of Walachia and Moldavia and was the first Prince of their surname.{{Citaiton needed|date=August 2022}} |
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