Basarab I the Founder (, also Basarab I the Great, Basarab cel Mare ; ) was voivode or prince of Wallachia ( c. 1310 / 1319 – 1352 ).

He was also the chief magistrate and military commander of Transylvania's counties, and this power inevitably drew the Székely and Saxon territories into his sphere of influence however these territories were governed by counts who were nominally independent of the voivode.

* 1480: Mikołaj Bażyński / Niklas von Baysen, only elected, he refused to swear allegiance to the king, also voivode of Malbork Voivodeship

The word palatinus and its derivatives also translate the titles of certain great functionaries in eastern Europe, such as the Slavic voivode, a military governor of a province.

Radu III the Fair, Radu III the Handsome or Radu III the Beautiful (), also known by his Turkish name Radu Bey ( 1435 – 1475 ), was the younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş and voivode ( prince ) of the principality of Wallachia.

The Coci last name was carried on by Stefan Coci ( son of Vasile Lupu ) who married the daughter of Petru Rareş, a voivode of Moldavia, but also by the descendants of Gabriel Coci named Hatmanul.

Vlad, having numerous mistresses, also fathered several illegitimate children, including another son named Mircea ( the name Mircea being a family favorite due to Vlad's father, Mircea cel Bătrân, a popular Wallachian voivode ).

This circumstance led the voivode to discount the threat lurking behind the Habsburgs ' candidacy: that Hungary would have to contend not only with the Ottomans, but also with an attack from the west.

His half-brother Milan also took part in the Uprising, rising to become the commander / voivode ( duke ) of the Rudnik district.

Litovoi, also Litvoy, was a Vlach voivode in the 13th century whose territory comprised northern Oltenia ( Romania ).

The king ’ s diploma also refers to the kenazates of Farcaş and John and to a certain voivode Seneslau.

Seneslau, also Seneslav or Stănislau, was a Vlach voivode mentioned in a diploma issued by king Béla IV of Hungary ( 1235 – 1270 ) on 2 July 1247 ; the diploma granted territories to the Knights Hospitaller in the Banate of Severin and Cumania.

The diploma of Béla IV also refers to the kenazates of John, Farcaş and voivode Litovoi.

Thocomerius, also Tihomir, was the father of Basarab who would become the first independent voivode of Wallachia.

Antoni became a banker in Warsaw and was also voivode of Kiev Voivodship in 1791 and starost of Guzów, Żyrardów County ..

Mikołaj Krzysztof Radziwiłł, nicknamed The Black (,, also known as Mikołaj Radziwiłł The Fifth, 1515 – 1565 ) was Lithuanian noble of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, voivode of Vilnius, Grand Grand Lithuanian Chancellor and the Grand Hetman of Lithuania.

He was also a voivode of Vilna Voivodeship, as well as a starost of Samogitia, Kamieniec, Kazimierz and Sejwy.

Petru also acted as an intermediary in the negotiations between the Wallachia voivode Mircea cel Bătrân and the Polish king that resulted in the treaties signed by the two parts in 1389 and 1390.

In the 17th century also the commander of Pospolite ruszenie, in the case when a castellan or voivode could not command personally.

Ahtum, also Achtum or Ajtony (,,, ), was a local ruler ( voivode, ‘ king ’, ‘ prince ’ or tribal leader ) in the region of Banat ( today divided between Romania, Serbia and Hungary ) in the first decades of the 11th century.

Titles of the Habsburg emperor in an historical document from 1851: among other titles, emperor Franz Joseph I was also great voivode of the Voivodeship of Serbia ( German: Grosswojwod der Wojwodshaft Serbien ).

Dragonș, also Dragoş Vodă or Dragoş of Bedeu, was a Romanian voivode in Maramureş who has traditionally been considered as the first ruler or prince of Moldavia.

According to the diploma, the king gave the territories east of the Olt River to the knights, with the exception of the territory of voivode Seneslau.

* 1465 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest

* October 14 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest

Writ issued on 14 October 1465 by the Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, from his residence in Bucharest.

Current voivode of Greater Poland, Piotr Florek ( front, 2nd from right ), with marshal Marek Woźniak ( front, 3rd from right )

At the May Assembly in Sremski Karlovci ( May 13 – 15, 1848 ), recalling the privilege from 1691, the Serbs proclaimed the creation of the Serbian Vojvodina and elected Stevan Šupljikac as voivode.

The rise of the mediaeval state of Wallachia followed in the 14th century, and the voivode ( Prince of Wallachia ) was represented in Oltenia by a ban-" the great ban of Craiova " ( with seat in Craiova after it was moved from Strehaia ).

At the beginning of 1668 he defeated the voivode Yakov Bezobrazov, sent against him from Astrakhan, and in the spring embarked on a predatory expedition into Daghestan and Persia which lasted for eighteen months.

From the 13th century they were governed independently from the voivode by a royal official, the count of the Székelys.

Romanian historical tradition links the foundation of Moldavia to the " dismounting of Dragoş ", a Romanian voivode from Maramureş.

In the same year of establishment, the first četa from Belgrade was led by voivode Anđelko Aleksić.

Despite support from the king, Czarniecki was seen by many older, established noble family as an arrogant newcomer, and they prevented him from getting the hetman office that year ; instead early next year he received the office of the voivode of Ruthenia, and an extraordinary title of the " general and vice commander of the royal forces ", which put him in a position of an unofficial hetman-like authority.

In his prerogative as voivode he had the right to appoint officials in local authorities across Poland, including in the areas of the Junior Dukes, which made him the person from whose decisions was determined the fate of the state.

Mircea II ascended to the throne in 1442, as Vlad Dracul was in the Ottoman court negotiating for support from the Ottomans in an effort to better defend his rule against the John Hunyadi, the voivode of Transylvania.

Voivode of the Nowogródek Voivodeship from 1921 to 1924 ; government delegate to Wilno Voivodeship ( 1924 – 1925 ) and later its voivode ( 1926 – 1931 ).

Prince Jerzy Ossoliński ( 1595 – 1650 ) was a Polish nobleman ( szlachcic ), Crown Court Treasurer from 1632, governor ( voivode ) of Sandomierz from 1636, Reichsfürst ( Imperial Prince ) since 1634, Crown Deputy Chancellor from 1639, Great Crown Chancellor from 1643, sheriff ( starost ) of Bydgoszcz ( 1633 ), Lubomel ( 1639 ), Puck and Bolim ( 1647 ), magnate, politician and diplomat.

Many historians suggest that the name of the tribe probably stems from that of their legendary forefather Kriv, possibly a kniaz or a voivode.

In 1359, after falling out with the Hungarian King, another Vlach voivode from Maramures crossed the Carpathians and took Moldavia for himself and removed Hungarian control.

He was owner of Tarnów, Wiewiórka, Rożnów, Przeworsk, Stare Sioło, a Knight of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre from September 1, 1518, castellan wojnicki from 6 June 1522, voivode of Ruthenian Voivodeship from April 2, 1527 and of Kraków Voivodeship from October 10, 1535, castellan of Kraków and Starost of Sandomierz, Stryj, Żydaczów, Dolina, Sandecz, chmielnowski, Lubaczów and horodelski from March 15, 1536.