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Mihnea cel Rău

1462 - 1510

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Mihnea cel Rău (Mihnea the Wrongdoer/Mean/Evil; c.1460 – 12 March 1510), 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. During his reign, he ruled alongside his son Mircea III Dracul in the year 1509. Unpopular among the boyars, he was overthrown with Ottoman assistance, prompting him to take refuge in Transylvania – where he was murdered in front of the Sibiu Cathedral and buried inside it. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mihnea cel Rău is the 4,776th most popular politician (down from 4,375th in 2019), the 85th most popular biography from Romania (down from 75th in 2019) and the 39th most popular Romanian Politician.

Mihnea cel Rău is most famous for being the son of Vlad Țepeș, the infamous ruler of Wallachia. He was born in 1473 and died in 1508. He was the prince of Wallachia from 1508 to 1510.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Mihnea cel Rău ranks 4,776 out of 19,576Before him are Thomas Francis, Prince of Carignano, Francesco Maria I della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Aşub Sultan, Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, Alfonso Ferrero La Marmora, and Diodotus Tryphon. After him are Elizabeth Tudor, Artaphernes, Horus Bird, Girma Wolde-Giorgis, Mahmud Pasha Angelović, and Qutalmish.

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Among people born in 1462, Mihnea cel Rău ranks 6Before him are Louis XII of France, Piero di Cosimo, Pietro Pomponazzi, Joanna la Beltraneja, and Johannes Trithemius. After him are John de la Pole, 1st Earl of Lincoln, Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken, Pietro Lando, and Edzard I, Count of East Frisia. Among people deceased in 1510, Mihnea cel Rău ranks 8Before him are Giorgione, Catherine Cornaro, Bianca Maria Sforza, Muhammad Shaybani, Francisco de Almeida, and Juan de la Cosa. After him are Giovanni Sforza, Frederick of Saxony, Sidonie of Poděbrady, Catherine of Genoa, Mandukhai, and Georges d'Amboise.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Mihnea cel Rău ranks 85 out of 844Before him are David Wechsler (1896), Stephen Bocskai (1557), Petru Groza (1884), Artur Phleps (1881), Dinu Lipatti (1917), and Peter Mogila (1596). After him are Horia Sima (1907), Fritz Klein (1888), Dositej Obradović (1742), Michael Cretu (1957), Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812), and Anghel Iordănescu (1950).

Among POLITICIANS In Romania

Among politicians born in Romania, Mihnea cel Rău ranks 39Before him are Sigismund Báthory (1572), György Dózsa (1470), Nicu Ceaușescu (1951), László Rajk (1909), Stephen Bocskai (1557), and Petru Groza (1884). After him are Horia Sima (1907), Countess Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde (1812), Nicolae Iorga (1871), László Tőkés (1952), Pertevniyal Sultan (1812), and Ion Gheorghe Maurer (1902).