According to an interpolation by Misail the Monk in Grigore Ureche's chronicle, Dragoș's rule in Moldavia "was like a captaincy". When Misail the Monk made his remark in the , captaincy was a military unit, made up by villagers who were obliged to render specific military services. Earlier sources did not mention that Dragoș had participated in any military actions. Nevertheless, the fact that he was the head of a frontier zone of the Kingdom of Hungary shows that he and his retainers had an important role in the military actions east of the Carpathians.