Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia

Nicolae Alexandru of Wallachia
Nicolae Alexandru of Wallachia
	Voivode of Wallachia
Voivode of Wallachia
Reign	c.1344 – 1352 (with Basarab I) ; 1352 – November 1364 (alone)
Predecessor	Basarab I of Wallachia
Successor	Vladislav I of Wallachia
Died	November 1364
Spouse	Doamna Maria Lackfy; Doamna Clara Dobokai; Doamna Margit Dabkai
Issue	Vladislav I of Wallachia; Radu I of Wallachia; Elisabeth of Wallachia; Anna of Wallachia; Anca of Walachia
House	Basarab
Father	Basarab I of Wallachia
Mother	Doamna Margareta

Nicholas Alexander (Romanian: Nicolae Alexandru), (? – November 1364) was a Voivode of Wallachia (c. 1352 – November 1364), after having been co-ruler to his father Basarab I.

In the year 1359, he founded the Eastern Orthodox Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia.

After initially resisting pressures to become the Kingdom of Hungary's vassal, he yielded to King Louis I in 1354, and recognized the right of the Roman Catholic Church to establish missions in his principality, as well as the privilege of Saxon traders from Brașov to transit Wallachia without paying duties. In 1355, Nicolae Alexandru and the King of Hungary reached an agreement in return for Severin.

His second wife was Clara Dobokai, a Catholic noblewoman from Hungary.[1]

His daughter, Anna of Wallachia, married Tsar Ivan Stratsimir of Bulgaria and became mother of Tsar Constantine II of Bulgaria and Queen Dorothea of Bosnia. Another daughter Anca married Emperor Stefan Uroš V of Serbia. His third daughter Elisabeth (1340 – d. c. 1369) married Vladislaus II of Opole and through her daughter Katharina of Opole is voivode Nicholas Alexander ancestor for all European royal families including Romanian royal family.

Footnotes

Czamańska, Ilona (1996). Mołdawia i Wołoszczyzna wobec Polski, Węgier i Turcji w XIV i XV wieku. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM. p. 197. ISBN 83-232-0733-X.

Bibliography

(in Romanian) Constantin C. Giurescu, Istoria Românilor, vol. I, Ed. ALL Educațional, București, 2003.
(in Romanian) Daniel Barbu, Sur le double nom du prince de Valachie Nicolas-Alexandre, Revue Roumaine d’Histoire XXV, no. 4, 1986.

Regnal titles
Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia House of Basarab Died: 1364
Preceded by Basarab I	Voivode of Wallachia 1352–1364	Succeeded by Vladislav I

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[1] Czamańska, Ilona (1996). Mołdawia i Wołoszczyzna wobec Polski, Węgier i Turcji w XIV i XV wieku. Poznań: Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM. p. 197. ISBN 83-232-0733-X.