Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia
Monarch
– 1364
Who was Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia?
Nicholas Alexander was a Prince of Wallachia between 1352 and November 1364, after having been associate ruler to his father Basarab I.
In the year 1359, he founded the Wallachian Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan seat.
After initially resisting to 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 Braşov to transit Wallachia without paying duties. In 1355, Nicolae Alexandru and the King of Hungary reached agreement in return for Severin.
His daughter, Anna of Wallachia, married Tsar Ivan Stratsimir of Bulgaria and became mother of Tsar Constantine II of Bulgaria and of Queen Dorothea of Bosnia.
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- Nov 1, 1364
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on July 23, 2013
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