Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia

Nicolae Alexandru
Voivode of Wallachia
Reign	c.1344 – 1352 (with Basarab I) 1352 – November 1364 (alone)
Predecessor	Basarab I
Successor	Vladislav I
Issue	Vladislav I Radu I Anna of Wallachia
House	House of Basarab
Father	Basarab I of Wallachia
Mother	Doamna Margareta
Died	November 1364

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 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 Brașov to transit Wallachia without paying duties. In 1355, Nicolae Alexandru and the King of Hungary reached an agreement in return for Severin.

His daughter, Anna of Wallachia, married Tsar Ivan Stratsimir of Bulgaria and became mother of Tsar Constantine II of Bulgaria and Queen Dorothea of Bosnia. Another daughter married Emperor Stefan Uroš V of Serbia.

Sources

• (Romanian) Constantin C. Giurescu, Istoria Românilor, vol. I, Ed. ALL Educațional, București, 2003.
• (Romanian) Daniel Barbu, Sur le double nom du prince de Valachie Nicolas-Alexandre, Revue Roumaine d’Histoire XXV, no. 4, 1986.