For Moldavia, in the seventeenth century, we see a large influx of Christian population, originating from the Balkan provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Many of the newcomers became part of Moldovan boyars. The phenomenon was conditioned by „naturalization”, which guaranteed obtaining all rights and privileges of a Moldovan noble; the process was called - prevalent, and consisted in the kinship of allogeneic boyar families with the autohrone ones. A classic example of this is the biography of the great seneschal Stamatia Hioti (Sacâzliul), an outstanding and highly influent personality within the Moldovan boyars environment, who, by his activity, determined many important moments in Moldovan history.