Key facts
- 1st reign
- 23 September 1386 – May 1395
- Predecessor
- Dan I of Wallachia
- Successor
- Vlad I of Wallachia
- 2nd reign
- January 1397 – 31 January 1418
- Born
- c. 1355
- Died
- 31st of January 1418 (aged 62 – 63)
- Burial
- 4 February 1418, Cozia Monastery , Vâlcea County
- Spouse
- Doamna Mara , Doamna Anca
- Issue
- Michael I of Wallachia , Radu II Praznaglava , Alexandru I Aldea , Vlad II Dracul , Ana of Wallachia, Arina of Wallachia
- House
- Basarab
- Father
- Radu I of Wallachia
- Mother
- Doamna Calinichia
- Religion
- Orthodox Christian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Mircea
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Principality of Wallachia
- Place of birth
- Curtea de Argeș
- Place of death
- Curtea de Argeș
- Spouse
- Maria
- Father
- Radu I of Wallachia
- Mother
- Kalinikia
- Sibling
- Dan I of Wallachia
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Languages spoken
- Romanian
- Religion
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Family
- House of Basarab
- Military rank
- voivode
- Image
- MirceatheElder.jpg
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- Mircea cel Bătrân
- Commons category
- Mircea I of Wallachia
- date of birth
- 1355-00-00
- date of death
- 1418-01-31
- different from
- Mircea cel Bătrân
- place of burial
- Cozia Monastery
- name in native language
- Mircea cel Bătrân
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Encyclopedic overview
Mircea the Elder (Romanian: Mircea cel Bătrân, pronounced [ˈmirtʃe̯a tʃel bəˈtrɨn] ; c. 1355 – 31 January 1418) was the Voivode of Wallachia from 1386 until his death in 1418. He was the son of Radu I of Wallachia and brother of Dan I of Wallachia, after whose death he inherited the throne.
After the death of his step-brother Dan I, Mircea takes over the throne in 1386, as Wallachia, on one side, was going through a process of economic, administrative, religious development, but also of strengthening the army, and on the other side it was confronted with the expansion tendencies of the Hungarian Kingdom and Poland, which were aiming at controlling the mouths of the Danube, but also those of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mircea the Elder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.