Basarab the Young

Basarab Țepeluș
Prince of Wallachia
(1st reign)
ReignNovember 1477 – September 1481
PredecessorBasarab Laiotă cel Bătrân
SuccessorVlad Călugărul
Prince of Wallachia
(2nd reign)
ReignNovember 1481 – 23 March 1482
PredecessorVlad Călugărul
SuccessorVlad Călugărul
Born? before 1444
Died23 March 1482
Glogova, Gorj
IssueNeagoe Basarab (claimed)
HouseDănești
FatherBasarab II of Wallachia
ReligionOrthodox

Basarab IV cel Tânăr ("the Young"), also known as Țepeluș ("the little Impaler"), (before 1444 ? – 23 March 1482) son of Basarab II, and grandson of Dan II (1422-1431) was 4 times the voivode of the principality of Wallachia between 1474 and 1482: from Oct to Dec 1474, from Jan 1478 to June 1480, from Nov 1480 to before July 1481, and again from Aug 1481 to July 1482.

This was during an unstable political climate in medieval Wallachia that had another 4 princes ruling for some periods of time in those years.