Basarab the Young
| Basarab Țepeluș | |
|---|---|
Prince of Wallachia (2nd reign) | |
| Reign | November 1481 – 23 March 1482 |
| Predecessor | Vlad Călugărul |
| Successor | Vlad Călugărul |
| Born | ? before 1444 |
| Died | 23 March 1482 Glogova, Gorj |
| Issue | Neagoe Basarab (claimed) |
| House | Dănești |
| Father | Basarab II of Wallachia |
| Religion | Orthodox |
Basarab IV cel Tânăr ("the Young"), also known as Țepeluș ("the little Impaler"), (before 1444 ? – 23 March 1482) son of
This was during an unstable political climate in medieval Wallachia that had another 4 princes ruling for some periods of time in those years.
Reigns
Basarab IV Țepeluș acceded first to the Wallachian throne in 1474, when with help from Transylvanian voivode Stefan Bathory he overthrew his first cousin
Following his first rule Basarab IV Țepeluș sought refuge back in the Hungarian territories, where he most likely spent most of his life up to that point. In summer 1476 he is dispatched to Transylvania with
In 1479 Basarab IV was forced by
In 1481, the same year
The 15th century was a very volatile time in
Death
Basarab IV was killed during the clashes around Mar-Jul of 1482, perhaps due to a conspiracy led by the
Later on, Neagoe Craiovescu, who had acceded to the throne of Wallachia under the name Neagoe Basarab, claimed that Basarab IV was his father by having had an affair with his mother Neaga, who was then married to grand boyar Pârvu Craiovescu. While the Craiovești clan was close with the Dănești branch of the Wallachian ruling family, the claim is highly questionable but was used later on to support its princely origins.[1]
References
- ^ a b c Constantin Rezachevici - Cronologia critică a domnilor din Țara Românească și Moldova a. 1324 - 1881, Volumul I, Editura Enciclopedică, 2001
- ^ Petre P. Panaitescu, Cronicile slavo-române din secolele XV-XVI publicate de Ion Bogdan, Editura Academiei, 1959
- ^ a b Kármán & Kunčevic 2013, p. 266.
- ^ Battle of Breadfield (1479), 'Conflict and Conquest in the Islamic World: A Historical Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, ed. Alexander Mikaberidze, (ABC-CLIO, 2011), 215.
- ^ Shaw 1976, p. 70.
- ^ Florescu & McNally 1989, p. 45.
- ^ Demciuc 2004, pp. 7–8.
- ^ a b c d Eagles 2014, p. 216.
- ^ Cristea 2016, p. 338.
- ^ Shaw 1976, pp. 70, 72.
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- Demciuc, Vasile M. (2004). "Domnia lui Ștefan cel Mare. Repere cronologice". Codrul Cosminului (10): 3–12. ISSN 1224-032X.
- Eagles, Jonathan (2014). Stephen the Great and Balkan Nationalism: Moldova and Eastern European History. I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-1-78076-353-8.
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- Kármán, Gábor; Kunčevic, Lovro, eds. (2013). The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 9789004246065.
- Shaw, Stanford J. (1976). History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey: Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280–1808. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-52121-280-9.
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