Voivodate

These legendary accounts seem to show the Moldavian voivodate was founded, like that of Walachia, by Vlach immigrants from Hungary, during the first half of the 14th century.

The Daco-Roman entity vanished from recorded history for one thousand years, then reappeared in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in the form of the voivodates Wallachia and Moldavia. Transylvania, the third historical province of Romania, was by that time part of the kingdom of Hungary. Turkish suzerainty over the voivodates was established in the fifteenth century.

It would appear that the legal status that would for a long time apply to the Gypsies in the voivodate of Transylvania and the later in the Transylvanian principality was established during the reign of Sigismund.