Balc

Balc (Hungarian: Balk) was, according to many historians (e.g., Alexandru Dimitrie Xenopol, Ştefan Pascu), the third voivode of Moldavia, ruling in ca. 1359 or 1364, but the sequence of the voivodes listed in the Romanian chronicles does not refer to him. He was the son of Sas, the second voivode of Moldavia. Although Balc was the legitimate pretender to the throne, Bogdan, who had been voivode in Maramureș, crossed the Carpathian Mountains into Moldavia possibly immediately after the death of S...