Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân

Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân

Basarab III cel Bătrân ("the Old"), also known as Laiotă Basarab or Basarab Laiotă was domnitor of the principality of Wallachia in the 1470s, repeating the achievement of Dan II in being elected by the boyars as Prince on five different occasions. Moreover, he succeeded the same domnitor (Radu cel Frumos in Basarab's case) on four separate occasions. Two of his reigns also surrounded the last period in which Vlad III the Impaler ruled over Wallachia.

He ruled:

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

Preceded by
Radu cel Frumos
Prince of Wallachia
1473
Succeeded by
Radu cel Frumos
Preceded by
Radu cel Frumos
Prince of Wallachia
1474
Succeeded by
Radu cel Frumos
Preceded by
Radu cel Frumos
Prince of Wallachia
1474
Succeeded by
Radu cel Frumos
Preceded by
Radu cel Frumos
Prince of Wallachia
1475–1476
Succeeded by
Vlad III the Impaler
Preceded by
Vlad III the Impaler
Prince of Wallachia
1476–1477
Succeeded by
Basarab Ţepeluş cel Tânăr