Diploma of the Joannites

This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Diploma of the Joannites" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2009) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

The Vlach polities in 1246 AD, as described by the Diploma of the Joannites.

The Diploma of the Joannites, or Diploma of the Knights of St. John, was a grant issued in 1247 by King Béla IV of Hungary to Master Rembald of the Knights Hospitaller. It allowed the Knights to settle in Severin, in what is today Romania, where they could defend the Hungarian borders against Cuman invaders. The diploma provides valuable information about the existence of early Vlach (Romanian) polities in Wallachia, led by the Voivodes Litovoi and Seneslau and the Cneazes Ioan and Farcaș, as well as about the economic development of the region, whose inhabitants were engaged in agriculture, cattle breeding and fishing.

• Litovoi
• Seneslau
• John
• Farcaș

• Latin text of the Diploma

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Romanian. (March 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions. View a machine-translated version of the Romanian article. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Romanian Wikipedia article at [[:ro:Diploma Ioaniților]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|ro|Diploma Ioaniților}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

This European history–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e

This article related to orders, decorations, and medals is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e