CONSTITUIREA DOMENIULUI FUNCIAR AL BOIERILOR COȚOFENI ÎN JUDEȚELE DOLJ ȘI MEHEDINȚI

Original from the locality Coțofeni, from which the family took the name, the Coțofeni boyars are attested for the first time at the beginning of the 17 century, when the documents mentioned a certain Mihai Coțofeanu. Owning a wide landed property, the Coțofeanu family, could join other families with an old and far off origin as boyars, probably before the foundation of the feudal state Walachia. The existence of their estate is proved by a great number of testaments and many others documents in which are specified the frontiers that have remained as a testimony along the time. This noble family owned properties in four from the five districts of Oltenia. In Dolj and Mehedinți counties. The Coțofeni boyars owned the estates: Coțofeni, Rojiștea, Balota, Gubaucea, Stângăceaua, Brănești.