Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia

Nicholas Alexander (Romanian: Nicolae Alexandru) was a Voivode of Wallachia

Nicolae Alexandru of
(c. 1352 – November 1364), after having been co-ruler to his fatherBasarab I.
Wallachia
In the year 1359, he founded theEastern Orthodox Metropolis of Ungro-Wallachia. Voivode of 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.

Footnotes
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.
Voivode of Wallachia
Reign c.1344 – 1352 (with
Bibliography Basarab I)

(in Romanian) Constantin C. Giurescu,Istoria Românilor, vol. I, Ed. ALL 1352 – November
Educațional, București, 2003. 1364 (alone)
(in Romanian) Daniel Barbu, Sur le double nom du prince de Valachie
Nicolas-Alexandre, Revue Roumaine d’Histoire XXV, no. 4, 1986. 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 of Wallachia

House of Basarab
Died: 1364

Regnal titles
Preceded by Voivode of Wallachia Succeeded by
Basarab I 1352–1364 Vladislav I

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