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He is mentioned for the first time in a diploma issued by king [[Béla IV of Hungary]] (1235-1270) on 2 July 1247.<ref name='Vásáry'/> The diploma granted territories to the [[Knights Hospitaller]] in the [[Banate of Severin]] and ''[[Diocese of Cumania|Cumania]]'', ''“with the exception of the land of the kenazate of Voivode Litovoi,”'' which the king leaved to the Vlachs ''“as they had held it”''.<ref name='Vásáry'/>
The king’s diploma also refers to the ''kenazate''s of [[Farcaş]] and [[John (knez)|John]] and to a certain ''voivode'' [[Seneslau]].<ref name='Pop'/> Although the names of Litovoi and Seneslau are of [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] origin, they are expressly said to be Vlachs ''(Olati)'' in the king's diploma.<ref name='Vásáry'/> Bulgarian historian [[Vasil Zlatarski]], based on an information of [[Rashid-al-Din Hamadani|Rashid-al-Din]] and other sources, agrees that voivodship of Litovoi was under the [[Second Bulgarian Empire|Bulgarian]] sovereignty.<ref>[http://www.promacedonia.org/vz3/vz3_2_4.htm Златарски, Васил. История на българската държава през средните векове. Том III, с. 370-375] See also Коледаров, Петър. Политическа география на средновековната българска държава, с. 59-60.</ref>
It seems that Litovoi was the most powerful of all the above local rulers.<ref name='Pop'/> His territories were exempted from the grant to the knights,<ref name='Vásáry'/> but half of the royal [[tax]]es generated by his land ''(terra Lytua)'' was assigned to the Hospitallers – except for the income from the [[Haţeg]] district (''terra Harszoc'' in the diploma’s only surviving, papal copy), which the king kept all for himself.<ref name='Makkai'>{{cite book | last = Makkai | first = László | title = From the Hungarian conquest to the Mongol invasion}}</ref> According to the Romanian historian Ioan Aurel Pop, the king had grabbed Haţeg from Litovoi shortly before 1247.<ref name='Pop'/>
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