1402, September - Great city of Constantinople:
During the stay of Mircea in Constantinople, the Metropolitan Antim of Ungro-Wallachia died of his very old age and the Church Synod start debating who should be the next who will succeed him. After some suggestions, all agree that the best successor should be Archimandrite Nicodim of Tismana. He first declined the position but, after being requested by all members of the synod, in the virtue of the great prestige he hold in the Orthodox world, he accepted.
Related or not to the presence of the army outside of Constantinople, other important events had happened nearly in the same time:
1402 – Sunday 26 September - in Hagia Sophia Cathedral, the two new Despots were crowned with great pomp. One week later, they left the City with their army heading to Edirne. Mircea wanted to recover his second son, Radu, still prisoner of the Turks.
The city of Edirne, or Adrianople, was the European capital of the Ottoman Empire and was loyal to Musa Celebi who shortly become recognised as Sultan by the European part of the Empire. The Anatolian part has recognized Issa Celebi as Sultan, who also had the treasury of the empire and the capital of Bursa. If the relations between Musa and Mircea were good before the battle, existing even negotiations of a marriage between him and the daughter of Mircea, Musa start now to blame Mircea to rescue his brothers on the field of Bursa and not sustaining his charge to rescue his father.
Cause of that, the relation between them become tense and Musa refuse to liberate Radu from captivity.
During the stay of Mircea in Constantinople, the Metropolitan Antim of Ungro-Wallachia died of his very old age and the Church Synod start debating who should be the next who will succeed him. After some suggestions, all agree that the best successor should be Archimandrite Nicodim of Tismana. He first declined the position but, after being requested by all members of the synod, in the virtue of the great prestige he hold in the Orthodox world, he accepted.
Related or not to the presence of the army outside of Constantinople, other important events had happened nearly in the same time:
- Durad Brancovic was recognized by Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos as Despot of Serbia. Durad will also marry the daughter of Mircea, Anastasia who was 18 years old. Receiving the crown form the hands of the Emperor and the Patriarchs (both the ecumenical and the Serbian one were in Constantinople), was far better than to conquer it by the sword (of course, maintaining it will need the sword) and the matrimonial alliance with Mircea will also help a lot.
- Mircea was also recognized by Manuel as Земли Влахискои Деспот (Zemli Vlahiskoi Despot), or Despot of the lands of the Vlahs, as both Moldavia and Wallahia proper were labeled by the Greeks, Turks and Slavs with name of “Wallachia”: Ungro-Vlachia for Wallachia and Mavro-Vlachia Moldavia.
- In the same time, the Church Synod found a stunning solution for the Wallachian and Moldavian Metropolitans. A new Autocephaly Patriarchate of All Wallachians will be created, with the siege at Curtea de Argeș, having in jurisdiction the Metropolitan of Ungro-Wallachia (as primus inter pares), the Metropolitan of Severin and the Metropolitan of Moldavia (as second in prestige). The first Patriarch will be Nicodim, who will also keep the office of Metropolitan of Ungro-Wallachia and Exarch of Transylvanian Orthodox.
1402 – Sunday 26 September - in Hagia Sophia Cathedral, the two new Despots were crowned with great pomp. One week later, they left the City with their army heading to Edirne. Mircea wanted to recover his second son, Radu, still prisoner of the Turks.
The city of Edirne, or Adrianople, was the European capital of the Ottoman Empire and was loyal to Musa Celebi who shortly become recognised as Sultan by the European part of the Empire. The Anatolian part has recognized Issa Celebi as Sultan, who also had the treasury of the empire and the capital of Bursa. If the relations between Musa and Mircea were good before the battle, existing even negotiations of a marriage between him and the daughter of Mircea, Musa start now to blame Mircea to rescue his brothers on the field of Bursa and not sustaining his charge to rescue his father.
Cause of that, the relation between them become tense and Musa refuse to liberate Radu from captivity.
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