Basarab III cel Bătrân ("the Old"), also known as Laiotă Basarab or Basarab Laiotă (? – 22 December 1480) was
Voivode
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of the
principality
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of
Wallachia
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in the 1470s, repeating the achievement of
Dan II in being elected by the
boyar
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s as
voivode
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on five occasions. Moreover, he succeeded the same ruler (
Radu cel Frumos in Basarab's case) on four occasions. Two of his reigns also surrounded the last period in which
Vlad III the Impaler ruled over Wallachia.
In 1479 he joined in the
Battle of Breadfield
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, and died in December 1480.
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Rulers of Wallachia
Year of birth unknown
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15th-century Romanian people
House of Dănești
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