Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia

Nicolae Alexandru
Voivode of Wallachia
Reign 1352 – November 1364
Died November 1364
Predecessor Basarab I
Successor Vladislav I
Offspring Vladislav I, Radu I
Royal House House of Basarab
Father Basarab I

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 Wallachian Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan seat.

After initially resisting to 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 Braşov to transit Wallachia without paying duties. In 1355 Nicolae Alexandru and King of Hungary reached agreement in return for Severin.

His daughter, Anne of Wallachia, married Tsar Ivan Stratsimir of Bulgaria and became mother of Tsar Constantine II of Bulgaria and of Queen Dorothea of Bosnia.

Preceded by
Basarab I
Prince of Wallachia
1352–1364
Succeeded by
Vladislav I