Barbu Știrbey, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Barbu Știrbey

Romanian politician (1872-1946)

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1872

Place of Birth: Buftea, Ilfov County, Romania

Date of Death: 24-Mar-1946

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: Romania

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Prince Barbu Alexandru ?tirbey (Romanian pronunciation: ['barbu ?tir'bej]; 4 November 1872 – 24 March 1946) was 30th Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Romania in 1927.
He was the son of Prince Alexandru ?tirbey and his wife Maria Ghika-Comane?ti, and grandson of another Barbu Dimitrie ?tirbei (born Bibescu, adopted ?tirbei), who was Prince of Wallachia and died in 1869. He married his cousin, Princess Nadèje Bibescu about 1895, and had four daughters. His real significance in Romania history arises from his role as close confidant of Queen Marie, who was herself a highly influential figure in Romanian government circles prior to the accession of her son King Carol II to the throne in 1930. ?tirbey and Queen Marie were lovers, and Stirbey was probably the father of her youngest child, Mircea, and possibly the father of Ileana. Shortly after the Royal coup of August 23, 1944, he traveled to Moscow with the Romanian delegation that signed on September 12 the Armistice Agreement between Romania and the Soviet Union.
?tirbey was one of the plenipotentiary signatories of Agreement; the other signatories were Lucre?iu Patra?canu, Dumitru Damaceanu, and Ghi?a Popp on the Romanian side, and Rodion Malinovsky on the Soviet side.