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- BIOGRAPHY
Alexandru I Nicolae, voivode of Valachia, was the son of Ion Basarab, voivode of Valachia, and his wife Ana. He succeeded his father in 1352, after having been associate ruler to his father from about 1343. With his first wife Maria he had two children, Radu I and Elisaveta, who would both have progeny. Radu would be the ancestor of Vlad III Dracul 'the Impaler'. Elisaveta would marry Wladislaw, duke of Schlesien-Oppeln, palatin of Hungary.
With his second wife Clara de Doboca, Alexandru had two daughters Anna and Anka, of whom Anna would have progeny, marrying Ivan Stratsimir, tsar of Bulgaria, son of her aunt Teodora Basaraba and her husband Iwan Alexander Asen Dzarimovich, despot of Lowetsch and Kran, duke of Widin. Their son Constantine II would succeed his father, and their daughter Doroteja would be the first wife of Stjepan Tvrtko I Kotromanic, king of Bosnia. Anna's younger sister Anka married Stefan Uros V 'the Weak', son of Stefan IV Dusan, _Autokrator_ of Serbia.
After initially resisting the pressures to become the kingdom of Hungary's vassal, Alexandru yielded to King Louis I in 1354, and recognised the right of the Roman Catholic Church to establish missions in his principality, as well as the privilege of Saxon traders from Brasov to transit Valachia without paying duties. In 1359 Alexandru founded the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Metropolitan of Valachia.
Alexandru died in November 1364.
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