Despre „Dan voievod”. Rectificări cronologice şi genealogice
„Dan voievod”. A Revised Chronology and Genealogy .. 47 ŞTEFAN ANDREESCU, Venice and Mount Athos

Summary/Abstract: Several misunderstandings of sources and confusions in their interpretation have long-time persisted when historians tried an account of the reign of Mircea the Elder, prince of Wallachia (1386-1418) and of the following period along the first half of the fifteenth century. This study aims to rewrite the genealogy of the Wallachian dynasty. Two princes who had the same name, Dan, were regarded as one alone, the same „Dan II”, when actually they were Mircea’s son (Dan III) and the son of Mircea’s brother Dan, whom we call Dan IV. We also argued for the existence of another of Mircea’s brothers with the same name, Dan II, who shortly interrupted Mircea’s reign. All of them were involved into the rivalry between Hungary and the Ottoman Empire in the border region between the Danube, the Carpathians and the Black Sea. Instead of having only one character, eager to change his politics according to one neighbour or another, we managed to find two cousins, taking sides each against the other, Dan IV being under the sultan’s protection, while Dan III fought against the Turks with the support of the Hungarians.

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