Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia

Nicolae Alexandru
Voivode of Wallachia
Reign	c.1344 – 1352 (with Basarab I) 1352 – November 1364 (alone)
Predecessor	Basarab I
Successor	Vladislav I
Died	November 1364
Spouse	Clara Dobokai
Issue	Vladislav I Radu I Anna of Wallachia, Empress of Bulgaria Anka of Walachia, Empress of Serbia
House	Basarab
Father	Basarab I of Wallachia
Mother	Doamna Margareta

Nicholas Alexander (Romanian: Nicolae Alexandru) 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 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.

Nicholas Alexander was married twice. 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 Anka married Emperor Stefan Uroš V of Serbia.

Footnotes

Bibliography

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