Coat of arms reportedly used by Nicolae Pătrașcu, former Prince of Wallachia and, by then, a pretender to the throne from his Austrian exile. Based on a 1616 depiction from a roll of arms kept by Valentin Franck, the Mayor of Hermannstadt. Nearly identical with the arms used by Prince Nicolae's rival and father-in-law, Radu Șerban, but cross crosslet and ring. According to historian Dan Cernovodeanu, this highlights a genealogical distinction: Nicolae claimed to be descended from the Basarab Princes, while Radu belonged to the Craiovești. See Dan Cernovodeanu, Știința și arta heraldică în România, pp. 46, 219. Bucharest: Editura științifică și enciclopedică, 1977.  OCLC 469825245.
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