Diaconescu, Marius (szerk.): Mediaevalia Transilvanica 1998 (2. évfolyam, 1. szám)
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34 Marius Diaconescu Benedict Himffy's daughters, numbered herself among the victims of that campaign, was enslaved and taken to the island of Crete. Maria Hóiban assumed that the episode of the Severin citadel conquest achieved by the banus of Macva, Nicholas de Gara's troops, after the failure of the Hungarian armies, as it is recorded in John of Târnave's chronicle, must be separated and located later180. Nicholas de Gara was banus of Macva - quality in which he is mentioned by the chronicle at the time of the Severin Conquest - only until 1375181. This dignitary led indeed the 1375 campaign182 and it seems that the success promoted him to the position of Palatine of Hungary during the same year. In 1376, J. Treutel183 is certified to have become the new Hungarian banus of Severin. The Hungarian historian who studied and highlighted this conflict from 1375 reached the conclusion that Louis fought the allied forces of the Romanians, Bulgarians and Turks. The Hungarian armies' victory removed the Ottoman danger for the following years, and the Romanian voivodes' territories in Hungary were retrieved184. But it is acknowledged a fact that Wallachia was not subjected to the Hungarian suzerainty. Still in November 1377, King Louis I was hoping to subdue the Romanian State south of the Carpathians"85. Among the measures taken by the king, as following of these events was the raising of the Bran citadel at the Southern borders of Transylvania186. The Romanian voivode had followers in the Severin Banate, whose fortunes were seized in 1376187, and probably in the Făgăraş land, fact that would explain the conflicts in the Southern Transylvania188. The emergence of a new power factor in the Balkan region, the Turks, allowed the Romanian voivode to initiate a new sort of foreign policy189, which would leave its sign on a permanent basis for the future statute of Wallachia. For the first time in the history of Wallachia, the country's voivode chose to go along with a different power so that he should counterbalance the pressure of the Hungarian royalty. Another conflict took place in 1382 between the new voivode of Wallachia, Radu I (1374 -1383) and the Hungarian king. The only piece of 180 Maria Hóiban, op. cit., pp. 193-194 and the note 123. The Turkish and papal implications were very well anticipated by the author. 181 Although he is mentioned in this quality for the last time on the 22nd of February (P. Engel, Archontológia., I, p. 28), he could have been appointed a Palatine only between the 5th of July, when the position was declared vacant, and the 13th of October 1375, when he is first certified as such. P. Engel, op. cit., p. 4. 182 L. B. Kumorovitz, op. cit., p. 967. 183 P. Engel, Archontológia, I, p. 32. 184 Ibidem. 185 DRH. D., I, pp. 110-112. 186 Ibidem, pp. 111-112. 187 Ibidem, pp. 108-109. 188 L. B. Kumorovitz, op. cit., p. 976, doc. no. 4. 189 P. Engel, Gy. Kristó, A. Kubinyi, op. cit., p. 87, dates the beginning of the cooperation between the Turks and the Romanians in 1373.
