Mihnea the Bad

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Mihnea the Bad (Romanian: Mihnea cel Rău; died on 12 March 1510) was voivode (prince) of Wallachia from 1508 to 1509. He was an illegitimate son of Vlad the Impaler, also known as Dracula, who ruled Wallachia on three occasions during the mid-15th century. According to hostile sources, Mihnea was the son of a minor Wallachian nobleman named Dracea, who may, however, have been his stepfather, having married his mother. Mihnea spent some time as either a hostage or a refugee in the Ottoman Empire, but by 1483–1486 he served in the retinue of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, in Buda. Between 1494 and 1498, he made several unsuccessful attempts to seize the Wallachian throne, first from his uncle, Vlad the Monk, and then from his cousin, Radu the Great, but could not secure Hungarian support. By 1508, he had returned to the Ottoman Empire, and following Radu's death in the spring of that year, he ascended the Wallachian throne with Ottoman assistance. Although his relations with Hungary...

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