Born about 1462 in Wallachia, Ottoman Empire

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Died about 12 Mar 1510 in Wallachia, Ottoman Empire

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Biography

The son of Vlad III Dracula (Vlad Țepeș), and his first wife, was Voivode (Prince) of Wallachia from 1508 to 1509. Having replaced his first cousin Radu cel Mare. After his father's death, Mihnea ambitiously attempted to succeed him. He organized several raids with the help of boyars who supported his father and were eager to support his son. In 1508, Mihnea finally succeeded in gaining the throne, but it would not take long for the tainted majority of noblemen to notice the familiar pattern of Romanian patriotism. Mihnea, was an exhaustingly driven crusader for Christianity. He, like his father, wanted an Eastern Europe free of Turkish rule and aggression. But with corruption in high positions he too would suffer the similar fate of his father. During his reign, he ruled alongside his son Mircea II Dracul in 1509. After he fled Wallachia in 1510 while being pursued by the Craiovescu faction, he was finally cornered in the Roman Catholic Church of Sibiu where he was attending Mass. As he was leaving the service, he was stabbed by hired assassin Dimitrije Iakšić, a Serbian partisan of the Craiovescu faction. Mihnea is buried in this church.

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihnea_cel_R%C4%83u

• https://www.academia.edu/29701358/Genealogia_a_100_de_case_din_Tara_Romaneasca_si_Moldova

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