Aaron the Tyrant
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Aaron the Tyrant or Aron Vodă, sometimes credited as Aron Emanoil or Emanuel Aaron, was twice the Prince of Moldavia: between September 1591 and June 1592, and October 1592 to May 3 or 4, 1595. He was
A Cossack cavalryman in a 1587 manuscript
Greater coat of arms of Sigismund Báthory in 1597, displaying the Moldavian emblem alongside the Transylvanian and Wallachian arms, with the Reichsadler and the Báthory family's "dragon teeth"
Aroneanu Church in 2008
Sigismund Báthory
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Sigismund Báthory was Prince of Transylvania several times between 1586 and 1602, and Duke of Racibórz and Opole in Silesia in 1598. His father, Christopher Báthory, ruled Transylvania as voivode of t
Portrait by Dominicus Custos
Sigismund's cousin and rival, Balthasar Báthory
Sigismund Báthory using the title Prince of Transylvania, Wallachia and Moldavia in a 1595 engraving.
Sigismund's wife, Maria Christina of Habsburg