Alexandru Cantacuzino (militant)

Prince Alexandru Cantacuzino (1901 – 22 September 1939) was a Romanian lawyer and politician, a leading member of the Legionary Movement (popularly known as the Iron Guard), and a close collaborator of Legionary leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu. He notably devised a plot to overthrow Carol II, King of Romania, a plan that would later be taken over by Legionary leader and later Vice President of the Council of Ministers Horia Sima. Cantacuzino was killed on September 22, 1939, at the prison in Râmnicu Sărat, during a retaliation operation ordered by Carol II following the assassination of Prime Minister Armand Călinescu.