Sas of Moldavia

Sas
Voivode in Moldavia
Reign	c. 1353/1360 – c. 1357/1364
Predecessor	Dragoş
Successor	(?) Balc
Died	c. 1357/1364
Issue	Balc Drag Dragomir Ştefan
Dynasty	House of Dragoș
Father	Dragoş

Sas was, according to the Slavo-Romanian chronicles, the second voivode of Moldavia (c. 1353/1360 – c. 1357/1364).^[1][2] He followed his father Dragoş who had been sent to Moldavia as a representative of king Louis I of Hungary to establish a line of defense against the Golden Horde.^[2] All chronicles show that he reigned four years.^[1]

According to the sequence of the voivodes listed in the Slavo-Romanian chronicles, he was followed by Bogdan (who would become the first independent ruler of Moldavia), but several historians (e.g., Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol, Ştefan Pascu) consider Balc as his successor.^[1] Victor Spinei thinks that Bogdan came to Moldavia immediately after the death of Sas, before Balc was able to consolidate his reign.^[1]

The Drágfi of Béltek family, whose estates would encompass over a hundred villages in the Kingdom of Hungary,^[3] descended from one of his sons, Drag.

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