Sas was, according to the Slavo-Romanian chronicles, the second ''
voivode
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'' of
Moldavia
Moldavia ( ro, Moldova, or , literally "The Country of Moldavia"; in Romanian Cyrillic: or ; chu, Землѧ Молдавскаѧ; el, Ἡγεμονία τῆς Μολδαβίας) is a historical region and former principality in Centr ...
(''c.'' 1353/1360 – ''c.'' 1357/1364).
He followed his father
Dragoş who had been sent to Moldavia as a representative of king
Louis I of Hungary
Louis I, also Louis the Great ( hu, Nagy Lajos; hr, Ludovik Veliki; sk, Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( pl, Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 ...
to establish a line of defense against the
Golden Horde
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.
All chronicles show that he reigned four years.
According to the sequence of the ''voivode''s listed in the Slavo-Romanian chronicles, he was followed by
Bogdan
Bogdan or Bohdan (Cyrillic: Богдан) is a Slavic masculine name that appears in all Slavic countries as well as Romania and Moldova. It is derived from the Slavic words '' Bog/Boh'' (Cyrillic: Бог), meaning "god", and ''dan'' (Cyrillic: ...
(who would become the first independent ruler of Moldavia), but several historians (''e.g.'',
Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol
Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol (; March 23, 1847, Iaşi – February 27, 1920, Bucharest) was a Romanian historian, philosopher, professor, economist, sociologist, and author. Among his many major accomplishments, he is the Romanian historian cred ...
, Ştefan Pascu) consider
Balc as his successor.
Victor Spinei
Victor Spinei (born 26 October 1943 in Lozova, Lăpușna County, Romania) is Emeritus Professor of history and archaeology at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, member and vice president of the Romanian Academy. He is a specialist on the history ...
thinks that Bogdan came to Moldavia immediately after the death of Sas, before Balc was able to consolidate his reign.
The Drágfi of Béltek family, whose estates would encompass over a hundred villages in the
Kingdom of Hungary
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,
descended from one of his sons, Drag.
References
Sources
*Köpeczi, Béla ''(General Editor)'' – Makkai, László; Mócsy, András; Szász, Zoltán ''(Editors)'' – Barta, Gábor ''(Assistant Editor)'': ''History of Transylvania - Volume I: From the beginnings to 1606''; Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994, Budapest;
*Spinei, Victor: ''Moldavia in the 11th-14th Centuries''; Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, 1986, Bucharest
*Treptow, Kurt W. – Popa, Marcel: ''Historical Dictionary of Romania'' (the list ''‘Rulers of Romania – Moldavia’'', and entry ''‘Dragoş (Mid-14th Century)’''); The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1996, Lanham (Maryland, USA) & Folkestone (UK);
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House of Dragoș
1358 deaths
14th-century Hungarian people
Rulers of Moldavia
Romanians in Hungary
Year of birth unknown
Medieval Hungarian nobility