54 Facts About Radu Paisie

The scholar Nicolaus Olahus partly supported this account and further claimed that Radu Paisie was his own cousin.

The descent is endorsed by some modern historians, whereas others suggest that Radu Paisie was a regular member of the boyar class, or even a fishmonger.

Radu Paisie is known to have been a monk of the Wallachian Orthodox Church before his coronation.

Radu Paisie took the throne as a boyar favorite in the wake of Vlad Vintila's assassination.

Radu Paisie returned to the country, possibly supported by the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom, and staged a bloody repression.

Radu Paisie then reaffirmed his fealty to the Ottoman Sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, and contributed to the Suleiman's expeditions into Hungary.

Possibly as thanks for their military support, Radu Paisie ceded to the Ottomans the port of Braila.

Radu Paisie was eventually exiled to Egypt Eyalet, where he spent the remainder of his life.

Radu Paisie's two attested sons, including his co-ruler Marco, were either slaughtered by Mircea's family or Islamized at Suleiman's court.

In cultural history, Radu Paisie is remembered as the patron of Church Slavonic and one-time sponsor of the printer Dimitrije Ljubavic; as well as being the monarch who completed monastery complexes at Arges, Cozia, Dealu, and Tismana.

In various other records, Radu Paisie is treated as a Basarab family member.

An early account by the scholar Nicolaus Olahus describes a Petrus ab Argyes, most likely the future Radu Paisie, being born to a lesser Basarab, by the name of Stanciul.

Radu Paisie further proposes that Paisie was more distantly related to the Draculesti, as a direct descendant from Vlad the Impaler.

Historian Dan Plesia notes that "Petru was not a common name for Wallachian princes", and that "Radu Paisie" was a preferred new name for monarchs, down to the 17th-century Radu Paisie Serban.

Scholar Marcu Beza notes that Radu Paisie still referred to himself under his birth name in the 1538 orarion carrying his dedication.

Radu Paisie then took as his new wife a Lady Ruxandra.

Art historian Pavel Chihaia supports the notion that, in marrying his former sister-in-law, Radu Paisie had committed incest as defined in the Bible.

Aged about 40 at the time, Radu Paisie was the second former monk to obtain the Wallachian crown, preceded in this respect only by the 1480s Prince Vlad Calugarul.

Popa-Gorjanu similarly argues that Radu Paisie "was chased out with Turkish assistance".

Fenesan and Bacque-Grammont suggest that Radu Paisie found sympathy at the Porte with the downfall of Vizier Ibrahim, who was finally replaced by Ayas Mehmed Pasha.

Radu Paisie was then able to re-consolidate his power, turning to violent repression.

Some records describe other smaller revolts, which are not located chronologically; one was led by another pretender, Ivan Viezure, whom Radu Paisie captured and decapitated, possibly in 1537.

Radu Paisie now focused some of his activity on competing with the boyars for possession of land, some of which he then distributed among his family and retinue.

Radu Paisie owned 73 villages to his name, the largest single domain since Mircea I's ; 22 of these were bought from the boyars and at least 7 were inherited from Neagoe, while another 13 were confiscated from disobedient subjects.

Radu Paisie's sister received most of Islaz village and the whole of Falcoiu, purchased by Paisie from a Marga Craioveasca of Caracal; Furcovici and his wife Caplea were similarly granted Bistret.

In 1538, Paisie himself confiscated the Teleorman estates of an older pretender, Radu Badica, including perhaps the whole of Viisoara.

Radu Paisie donated these to his courtiers, Draghici and Udriste.

Again faced with an insurgency, Radu Paisie departed for Istanbul, where Suleiman reconfirmed him as a Prince.

Radu Paisie returned to Wallachia alongside an Ottoman emissary, charged with restoring order.

Radu Paisie's return pushed the boyars, including Serban, to take flight in Ottoman lands, where Giura spent the rest of his life.

Radu Paisie was one of the last Wallachian rulers to maintain a capital at Targoviste, though he continued to reside in Bucharest.

Already in late 1541, Radu Paisie was contemplating joining a Christian alliance against the Ottomans.

At the time, both Rares and Radu Paisie, discovering that the anti-Ottoman armies were not battle-ready, decided to postpone their planned expedition.

Radu Paisie then participated in diplomatic maneuvers which were meant to conceal Rares's preparation for an anti-Ottoman strike.

Radu Paisie was courting both sides, and preparing for either scenario.

Radu Paisie failed to deliver within the required interval, which alerted the Ottomans that he was plotting a revolt.

Radu Paisie was escorted into the Ottoman Empire, but allowed to keep some of his wealth.

Radu Paisie's efforts were curbed when he was exiled to Egypt Eyalet, where he spent the rest of his life, dying at an unknown date.

In 1546, Mircea put to death Clucer Coada and his brother Radu Paisie, while forcing Coada's children to take refuge in Transylvania.

Nicolaescu proposes that, in all, Radu Paisie had three sons, Marco, Vlad and Patrascu, as well as two daughters, Maria and Carstina.

Mislea was a prime recipient of estates from Radu Paisie, including areas of Brebu, Calugareni, and Cornu, as well as, to the south, Cascioarele and Greaca.

Ilie identifies this aspect in the infirmary of Cozia Monastery, which the two built; in the frescoes, Radu Paisie, identified as "Petru", is blessed by Jesus Christ, with angels crowning him and Marco together.

Radu Paisie is pictured holding up a small replica of the monastery, which, scholar Gheorghe Bals notes, is sufficiently accurate to help with reconstructing Cozia as it looked in the 1540s.

Radu Paisie was the re-builder of Tismana Monastery, and, Iorga notes, introduced there massive borrowings from the more architecturally advanced churches of Moldavia: the brickwork of Tismana appears to have been based on Khotyn Fortress, as completed under Petru Rares.

Contributions from Radu Paisie's era include the Tismana doorway, carved in 1542.

Bibliologist Agnes Terezia Erich proposes that, by relocating Ljubavic's press to Targoviste in 1544, Radu Paisie inaugurated "artisan printing in Wallachia"; however, the enterprise itself was entirely private, the first non-public press in the history of Romania.

Under Radu Paisie, Wallachia built bridges, political as well as cultural, with the Transylvanian Saxons, including through his letters to the burghers of Hermannstadt.

Radu Paisie declined, writing that such a move would displease "our lord, the exalted emperor" Suleiman.

In 1895, philologist Emile Picot argued that the name "Petru" referred to Petrascu, and concluded that by 1544 Radu Paisie had ceded his throne to his putative son.

Gane writes that the reason behind Radu Paisie's ouster had to with his involvement in the death of Alvise Gritti, an Ottoman favorite, which had occurred in 1534.

The erroneous dating of one document, since corrected, had left some scholars, including Ioan C Filitti, to propose that Paisie had actually reigned briefly in 1534, before Vlad Vintila's assassination.

The review proposes that this is because Radu Paisie failed to rise to the national-communist standards.

Radu Paisie's reign was nevertheless a subject matter for the 1976 novel Cind au venit Neagoe Voda, by Emanoil Copacianu.

Radu Paisie was one of a succession of princes who consolidated the use of the Wallachian arms, depicting a bird of solid color in various positions.