Basarab the Old
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Basarab III cel Bătrân ("the Old"), also known as Laiotă Basarab or Basarab Laiotă (? – 22 December 1480) was ruler of the Principality of Wallachia in the 1470s.
Biography
After Basarab's brother, Vladislav II of Wallachia, was killed by their cousin, Vlad Dracula, in a duel in 1456, he laid claim to Wallachia against Dracula, thus becoming the third pretender to the Wallachian throne.Template:Sfn Two decades later, in November 1476, Vlad invaded Wallachia with Hungarian and Moldavian support forcing Basarab to flee to the Ottoman Empire.Template:Sfn However, Basarab returned, and Vlad was murdered in late 1476 or early 1477.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Basarab repeated the achievement of Dan II in being elected by the boyars as Voivode on five occasions. Moreover, he succeeded the same ruler (Radu cel Frumos in Basarab's case) on four occasions. Two of his reigns also surrounded the last period in which Vlad III the Impaler ruled over Wallachia.
Like so many others of his contemporaries who held FogarasTemplate:Spaced ndashMircea the Elder, Vlad the Impaler, and Radu the FairTemplate:Spaced ndash he regularly granted estates to their boyars or awarded the heads of the local communities with the title boyar.Template:Sfn
In 1479, Basarab joined in the Battle of Breadfield, and died in December 1480.
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