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'''Seneslau''',<ref name='Georgescu'>{{cite book | last = Georgescu | first = Vlad | title = The Romanians: A History}}</ref><ref name='Pop'>{{cite book | last = Pop | first = Ioan Aurel | title = Romanians and Romania: A Brief History}}</ref> also '''Seneslav''' or '''Stănislau''',<ref name='Treptow'>{{cite book | last1 = Treptow | first1 = Kurt W. | last2 = Popa | first2 = Marcel | title = Historical Dictionary of Romania}}</ref> was a [[Vlachs|Vlach]] ([[Romanians|Romanian]]) ''[[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 ''[[Diocese of Cumania|Cumania]]''.<ref name='Vásáry'>{{cite book | last = Vásáry | first = István | title = Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185-1365}}</ref> 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.<ref name='Vásáry'/>

The name of Seneslav is of [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] origin. Seneslau held central and southern [[Muntenia]]<ref name='Georgescu'/> (''i.e.'', the territories along the rivers [[Argeş River|Argeş]] and [[Dâmboviţa River|Dâmboviţa]]).<ref name='Pop'/> The Romanian historian Ioan Aurel Pop suggests that Seneslau was quasi independent of the king of Hungary.<ref name='Pop'/> According to the Hungarian historian István Vásáry, his title ''(voivode)'' suggests that he had a territorial unit under his jurisdiction.<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 Seneslav 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>