Taşcă family

The Taşcă family is a Romanian family of landowners. Several members of the family have made their presence felt in Romanian politics, literature, sciences and arts.

The family traces its roots to the middle ages, to a certain Dragoş Cneaz of Giuleşti in the province of Maramureş documented in 1319. His son, Giulea, Cneaz of Giuleşti is documented as having moved to Moldavia on September 15, 1349, probably in the suite of voievode Dragoş. For several generations the family still kept its fiefdom in Maramureş. During the reign of Alexander the Good, the family took the name of Giulici, Danciu Giudici being known to have been member of the voievode's council in 1421.

The male part of the family becoming extinct, the lineage was continued through marriage to the Jora family, through Todiraşcu Jora, staroste of Tecuci. (1552). In 1606, Marica Jora married Avram Mişihănescu, the lineage being afterwards again transmitted in 1671 by the marriage of Tudosca Mişihănescu to Vasile Balaban. The last of the Balaban's was Great Captain Constantin L. Balaban (1780-1845) who only had two daughters:

• Maria Balaban, who married Captain Dumitrache Gh. Taşcă (1800-1857)
• Paraschiva Balaban who married one of her cousins, Ion Balaban.

Maria's oldest daughter, Ecaterina (Catinca) Taşcă (1828-1884) married sluger Vasile Dabija (1818-1865). Her daughter, Maria (Marghioala) Dabija (1849-1945) married again in the Taşcă family. Her husband, Gheorghe I. Taşcă is considered the patriarch of the modern branch of the Taşcă family.

References

• George-Felix Taşcă - Din descendenţa marelui căpitan Constantin Balaban (1780-1845) - Institutul de Istorie şi Arheologie A.D. Xenopol Iaşi - Al IV-lea simpozion de studii genealogice 13-15 mai 1993.
• Ştefan Gorovei - Înrudirile cronicarului Grigore Ureche - Anuarul de lingvistică şi istorie literară 1973