[1] Constantin ensured his sons had a good education and, upon his death, Antioch's younger brother Demetrius notionally succeeded him.

[2] Duca was deposed after two years for late payments of tribute and for having executed an inspecting kapucu.

He also laid the groundwork for his brother's anti-Turkish alliance with Peter the Great's Russian Empire, which began expanding southward following the 1699 Treaty of Karlowitz.

Despite Cantemir's high taxes, particularly during his second reign, he was a broadly popular figure and viewed as a just and kind ruler.

[citation needed] Inspired by Chrysanthus, the Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem, he established the Princely Academy in his capital Iaşi in 1707.