Vlad dracula family crest11/5/2023 ![]() ![]() The full names are either modern versions or ones based on mentions in various chronicles.įrom the early 15th-century the family was divided in two main branches: Most rulers did not use the form of the name they are cited with, and several used more than one form of their own name in some cases, the ruler was only mentioned in foreign sources. Wallachian rulers, like the Moldavian rulers, bore the titles of Voivode ("duke") or/and Hospodar ("lord, master") when writing in Romanian, the term Domn (from the Latin dominus) was used. ![]() The system itself was challenged by usurpers, and became obsolete with the Phanariote epoch, when rulers were appointed by the Ottoman Sultans between 18 (the date of Romania's independence), various systems combining election and appointment were put in practice. On principle, princes were chosen from any family branch, including a previous ruler's bastard sons, being defined as os de domn, "of Voivode marrow", or as having heregie, " heredity" (from the Latin hereditas) the institutions charged with the election, dominated by the boyars, had fluctuating degrees of influence. This is a list of princes of Wallachia, from the first mention of a medieval polity situated between the Southern Carpathians and the Danube until the union with Moldavia in 1859, which led to the creation of Romania.ĭynastic rule is hard to ascribe, given the loose traditional definition of the ruling family. ![]()
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