Csupor de Monoszló () was a Hungarian aristocrat of

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n origin, a commander of

John Hunyadi John Hunyadi (; ; ; ; ; – 11 August 1456) was a leading Kingdom of Hungary, Hungarian military and political figure during the 15th century, who served as Regent of Hungary, regent of the Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526), Kingdom of Hungary ...

's troops that were sent to support Petru III in gaining the Moldavian throne from Roman II. Ciubăr Vodă governed

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for about two months after the unexpected death of Petru possibly at the end of January 1449, as in February, Alexăndrel took the Moldavian throne for the first time. He is only mentioned by

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, as ruler of

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for two months after Petru III of Moldavia.

Position of Nicolae Iorga

According to

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, Ciubăr Vodă is a prince who ruled for two months 1448–1449. Iorga opined that Ciubăr/Csupor was

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's relative and claimed that otherwise the Moldavian boyars would not have accepted a Hungarian commander, but only an individual of princely kin. However we have no proof that Csupor was anything more than a caretaker for the throne, most likely on behalf of

as Petru III of Moldavia had married John's sister just before being placed on the throne. Iorga also insisted that Ciubar is not a nickname, but a name of a court marshal Ciope, who lived around 1451, whose name would have given the forms of the name ''Ciopel, Ciopor, Ciobâr'', which would mean ''"the Devil"'' (Dracul). However, his opinion was not shared by Romanian historians.Constantin Rezachevici – ''Cronologia critică a domnilor din Țara Românească și Moldova a. 1324–1881'', Volumul I, Editura Enciclopedică, 2001, p. 510. In Hungarian, as well as in Croatian and Romanian ''"csupor"'' means ''"a pot"''.

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