When demanding the emancipation of the Romanians of Transylvania in the late 18th century, the authors of the "Supplex Libellus Valachorum" referred to Anonymus's work. Anonymus's three heroesGelou, Glad and Menumorutplay a preeminent role in Romanian historiography. Romanian historians have always presented them as Romanian rulers whose presence in the "Gesta" proves the existence of Romanian polities in the territory of present-day Romania at the time of the Hungarian Conquest. The Romanian government even published a full-page advertisement about the reliability of Anonymus's reference to the Romanians in the "The Times" in 1987.