Constantin Brancoveanu, prince of Wallahia (1688-1714), put on the thorne by the great boyards.

In time of his reign, the political and diplomatic activities intensified, in order to stop Tzarist and Ottoman expansion and Romanian culture knew a great flourishing.
Using a clever politic, he was ruler for 26 years. His taxation policy, caused by the many requests of the Ottomans, was not easily supported by the population. His foreign policy was hesitating. He engaged himself in helping Peter the Great of Russia in the war against the Turks, from 1710-1711, he adopted an expectative attitude. Accused by the Turks of betrayal, he was killed in Constantinopole in 1714, toghether with his four sons.

In his times the Romanian culture knowed a flourishing period. He was a supporter of the culture. Many Romanian, Greek, Slavonian and even Arabian, Turkish and Georgian books were printed. An architectonical style was created in Wallahia, named "brancovenesc" style.