 Complete the following phrase:  Catinca died in childbirth one year into their marriage, in what was seen by contemporaries as proof that Băleanu was under the Târgoviște jinx. Despite his sons matrimonial arrangement with the Phanariotes, Grigore Băleanu was one of the more independently minded boyars, who was made unassailable by his acceptance into a Janissary corps and his employment of a personal guard. Proud of his Romanian roots, and in touch with tradition, he reportedly organized street parades that made Greeks quiver. Soutzos death in January 1821 sparked a political crisis, making Wallachia into a theater for the Greek War of Independence. In parallel, there was an 