Matei Basarab

Matei Basarab was a Wallachian voivode between 1632 and 1654. Image File history File links Matei_basarab. ... Image File history File links Matei_basarab. ... Map of Romania with Wallachia in yellow. ... For the heavy metal music band see Voivod (band). ... Jump to: navigation, search See also: 1632 (novel) Events February 22 - Galileos Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published July 23 - 300 colonists for New France depart Dieppe November 8 - Wladyslaw IV Waza elected king of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth after Zygmunt III Waza death November 16... Jump to: navigation, search Events April 5 - Signing of the Treaty of Westminster, ending the First Anglo-Dutch War. ...

Much of Matei's reign was spent fighting off incursions from Moldavia, which he successfully accomplished in 1637, 1639, and 1653. He was an enlightened ruler, and is noted for introducing the printing press to Wallachia (1634) and creating the first Wallachian code of laws (1652) as well as patronizing art and religion. He built more than 45 churches and monasteries, being compared to Stephen the Great, the famous ruler of Moldavia. Moldavia (Moldova in Romanian) was a Romanian principality, originally created in the Middle Ages, now divided between Romania, Moldovan Republic and Ukraine. ... Events February 3 - Tulipmania collapses in Netherlands by government order February 15 - Ferdinand III becomes Holy Roman Emperor December 17 - Shimabara Rebellion erupts in Japan Pierre de Fermat makes a marginal claim to have proof of what would become known as Fermats last theorem. ... Events January 14 - Connecticuts first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, is adopted. ... Events February 2 - New Amsterdam (later renamed New York City) is incorporated. ... The printing press is a mechanical device for printing many copies of a text on rectangular sheets of paper. ... Events Moses Amyrauts Traite de la predestination is published Curaçao captured by the Dutch Treaty of Polianovska First meeting of the Académie française The witchcraft affair at Loudun Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin Opening of Covent Garden Market in London English establish a settlement... // Events April 6 - Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, and founded Cape Town. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ...

His election in 1632 signified the first official exception to a rule set by custom. Basarab was merely a boyar and one not related to previous Princes (although it seems that a similar point can be made about such rulers as Michael the Brave). The reason for this choice has been explained as a reaction of indigenous boyars against competition from newly infiltrated Greeks and Levantines. It may also be because of these special circumstances that Matei used the surname "Basarab" - associated as it is with a fabricated legitimate lineage. In law, custom, or customary law consists of established patterns of behaviour that can be objectively verified within a particular social setting. ... Jump to: navigation, search A boyar (also spelt bojar; Romanian: boier) was a member of the highest rank of the feudal Russian and Romanian aristocracy, second only to the ruling princes, from the 10th through the 17th century. ... Below is the list of Wallachian rulers, since the first mentioned until the unification with Moldavia in 1859. ... Michael the Brave (Romanian: Mihai Viteazul) was one of the greatest of Romanias national heroes. ... The word indigenous is an adjective derived from the Latin word indigena, meaning native, belonging to, aboriginal; and has several applications: Indigenous peoples, communities and cultures native or indigenous to a territory; Indigenous (band), the Native American blues-rock band; In biology, indigenous means native to a place or biota... The Levant is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in Southwest Asia south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea in the west, and in the east, the north Arabian Desert and Mesopotamia. ... Posada Battle Basarab I was an early ruler of the principality of Wallachia, known as ÃŽntemeietorul (The Founder) (c. ... Kinship and descent is one of the major concepts of cultural anthropology. ...

Matei Basarab's rule also coincides with the last stage in the decay of the lesser nobilty, the result of political pressure from boyars and drastic economical changes (the revolt of the seimeni military under Constantin Şerban probably has this as its main cause). Jump to: navigation, search Seimeni designates the group of infantry mercenaries charged with guarding the voivode and his Court in XVIIth and XVIIth century Wallachia and Moldavia. ...

Below is the list of Wallachian rulers, since the first mentioned until the unification with Moldavia in 1859. ...

Reference

Gheorghe I. Brǎtianu, "Sfatul domnesc şi Adunarea Stǎrilor în Principatele Române", Bucharest, 1995