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Vladislav I or Vladimareïo/ Vila·Dumas of the
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, also known as Vlaicu or Vlaicu-Vodă, was the Voivode of Wallachia between
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and
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. He was the son of Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia and
Clara Dobokai Clara Dobokai (before 1330 – after 1370) was the second wife of Nicholas Alexander, Voivode of Wallachia. Origins Clara was the daughter of a Hungarian nobleman, John Dobokai, whose domains were located in Transylvania. Her mother's name an ...
. In February 1369, Vladislav I subdued Vidin and recognised
Louis I of Hungary Louis I, also Louis the Great ( hu, Nagy Lajos; hr, Ludovik Veliki; sk, Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( pl, Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 ...
as his overlord in return for Severin, Amlaș, and Făgăraș. In 1373 Louis I took Severin again but Vladislav I recovered it in 1376–1377.


Family

Vladislav I was the son of Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia and
Clara Dobokai Clara Dobokai (before 1330 – after 1370) was the second wife of Nicholas Alexander, Voivode of Wallachia. Origins Clara was the daughter of a Hungarian nobleman, John Dobokai, whose domains were located in Transylvania. Her mother's name an ...
. It has been suggested that his son was
Vlad I of Wallachia Vlad I (? – 1396/97?) known as ''Uzurpatorul'' (the Usurper), was a ruler of Wallachia in what later became Romania. He usurped the throne from Mircea I of Wallachia. His rule lasted barely three years, from October/November 1394 to January 139 ...
.


Reign

During his reign, the
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was split in two parts, as a single bishop didn't suffice for the entire country, thus creating the Metropolis of Oltenia. The first monasteries in Wallachia were erected by Nicodemus of Tismana(Vodița Monastery and Tismana Monastery) with the support of the voivode.


Relations with the Hungarian Crown

Louis assembled his armies in Temesvár (now Timișoara in Romania) in February 1365. According to a royal charter that year, he was planning to invade Wallachia because the new voivode, Vladislav I, had refused to obey him. However, he ended up heading a campaign against the Bulgarian
Tsardom of Vidin The Tsardom of Vidin ( bg, Видинско Царство, translit=Vidinsko Tsarstvo) was a medieval Bulgarian state centred in the city of Vidin from 1356 to 1396. Early history In 1257, Rostislav Mikhailovich attacked the Bulgarian capital o ...
and its ruler Ivan Sratsimir, which suggests that Vladislav I had in the meantime yielded to him. Louis seized Vidin and imprisoned Ivan Stratsimir in May or June.In 1366, Louis granted the Banate of Severin and the district of Fogaras to Vladislav Vlaicu of Wallachia, who had accepted his suzerainty.
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also accepted Louis's suzerainty after Hungarian troops assisted him in regaining his throne in early 1367. In 1368, Vladislav I made an alliance with
Ivan Shishman Ivan Shishman ( bg, Иван Шишман) ruled as emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 June 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. In the wake of the death of Ivan Alexan ...
, a half-brother of the former ruler of Vidin, Ivan Sratsimir. Their united armies imposed a blockade on Vidin. Louis marched to the Lower Danube and ordered Nicholas Lackfi, Voivode of Transylvania, to invade Wallachia in the autumn of 1368. The voivode's army marched through the valley of the Ialomița River, but the Wallachians ambushed it and killed many Hungarian soldiers, including the voivode. However, Louis' campaign against Wallachia from the west was successful and Vladislav Vlaicu yield to him in next summer. Upon his initiative, Louis restored Ivan Stratsimir in Vidin.


Coinage

Vladislav I was the first Wallachian voivode to mint local coins around 1365. The coins were made exclusively from silver and they were classified in 3 categories: *I - Ducats, with a diameter of 18-21mm and an average weight of 1,05 grams. There were 3 types of the Wallachian ducats: type I, which had solely
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inscriptions, featuring on the obverse the inscription and a shield with a cross on top divided into two halves vertically, one being traversed by horizontal stripes and the other featuring a crescent, while on the reverse featuring an eagle with the head tilted to the left sitting on a knightly helmet with a cross to its left; type II, which had both Latin and Cyrillic inscriptions, featuring on the obverse the inscription or and a Jerusalem cross, while on the reverse featuring the inscription or and the same model as type I but mirrored; type III, which, akin to type II had both Cyrillic and Latin inscriptions, featuring on the obverse the inscription or and a shield divided into two halves vertically, one being traversed by horizontal stripes and the other being blank, while on the reverse featuring the inscription or and the same illustration as type II. *II - Dinars, with a diameter of 16-18mm and an average weight of 0,70 grams. They looked the same as type III ducats and also featured the same Cyrillic or Latin inscriptions, however they were smaller and lighter. *III - Bans, with a diameter of 14-16mm and an average weight of 0,35 grams. On the obverse they featured the same imagery as type II and III ducats did on the reverse, with the exception of the inscription, which was , while on the reverse they featured a Jerusalem cross.


References

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