Farcaș,[1][2] also Farkas, Farkaș[3] or Farcas,[4] was a cneaz (local chieftain or ruler)[4][5] mentioned in the Diploma of the Joannites 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 Cumania.
[6] His kenazate lay in the northeast of modern Oltenia (in Romania).
[6] Seneslau and Litovoi are expressly said to be Vlachs (Olati) in the king's diploma.
[6] Farcaș (Farkas) is a typical Hungarian name meaning ‘wolf’.
[6] The Romanian historian Ioan-Aurel Pop suggests that his name is mentioned in Hungarian translation in the diploma, and Farcaș's kenazate was one of the incipient Romanian states south of the Carpathian Mountains.