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.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Two decades later, in November 1476, Vlad invaded Wallachia with Hungarian and Moldavian support forcing Basarab to flee to the Ottoman Empire.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". However, Basarab returned, and Vlad was murdered in late 1476 or early 1477.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".

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.

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In 1479, Basarab joined in the Battle of Breadfield, and died in December 1480.

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Basarab the Old House of Dăneşti Died: 1480
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Basarab the Old

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