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The estates of the Glogoveanu boyars in the Dolj and the Romanaţi districts 41The boyars from the Glogoveanu family held also, starting with 1626, theestate Boanta. It was mentioned for the first time in a charter emitted at 3 rd April1566, through which, Petru Voievod, gave a half from the property of Bonteni toNeagomir and the other half to Neagoe 8 . After this date and until 1626, the estatehad many owners. In October 1571 – October 1572, Alexandru the Second Mirceagave to the monastery Boanta the proprieties from Boanta that belonged toNeagoe, the son of Stanca, to Bratu, Dragu, the son of Stoica, to Stoian and Radu,being bought by the Father Superior Dorothei. The monastery received, along thetime, from different rulers, many legal confirmations for these parts of the estate.At 3 rd June 1596, Michael the Brave, accorded to the dregător jupân Radu, greatclucer, to Preda, great postelnic and to Stroe, great stolnic, the possession overseveral parts from the village Bonteni, along with vineyards and mills, boughtfrom Staicu, Radu and Stroe for 16700 aspri 9 . At 5 th September 1626 the villageBonteni was in the property of the jupâniţa Florica, the wife of Necula fromGlogova and the daughter of the comis Radu from Corlăteşti. After this date, thevătaf Necula, owing some debts to Preda, former great ban of Craiova, had to sellsome of the villages among which Boanta was too 10 .At the end of the 18 th century, the serdar Ioniţă Glogoveanu was at thelaw with the serdar Ştirbei regarding the possession of some villages. Amongthem, Boanta counts too. Ştirbei sustained that the estate was the property of hisgreat-father Strâmbeanu but he changed it with the estate from Clejneşti, whichwas a property of the Glogoveanu family 11 .This family had other estates in the Dolj district too, where theypossessed a part from Valea Muierii, Melineşti and Răcari.These were bought (the estates from Melineşti and Valea Muerii), or,were dowered such is the estate from Răcari, obtained after the marriagebetween Constantin Glogoveanu and Elena Otetelişanu.Some parts of the estate from Melineşti were obtained after they werebought directly from the freeholders by the clucer Nicolae Glogoveanu and by hisson Constantin. At 9 th May 1804, Constantin Tabacu and his wife SmarandaMelinescu sold to Stanciu, the son of Vladu Mădularu and to Gheorghe Chirea,100 stânjeni of land in Melineşti. At 2 nd September, in the same year, and 22 nd , thenext year, this piece of land became the property of Nicolae Glogoveanu, inexchange for some debts that Constantin Tabacu owed to him. At 1 st March 1820,Ecaterina Melinescu and his husband Drăghici Preoţescu sold more stânjeni fromthis property to Nicolae Glogoveanu: at 18 th August 1820 (3 stânjeni), at 20 thAugust 1820 (6 stânjeni), 30 th November 1824 (17 stânjeni), at 15 th July 1825 (one8 Documente privind istoria României, 16 th century, B. Ţara Românească, vol. III (1551-1570), Bucureşti, The Publishig House of the Romanian Academy, 1952, p. 223.9 DRH, B vol. XI (1593-1600), p. 223-224.10 Ibidem, vol. XXI (1626-1627), p. 263.11 Arhivele Naţionale Dolj, Colecţia Documente, package CCCXLI, dos.29 / the end ofthe 18th century, f. 1-2.