Pintea the Brave

In this context, Francis II Rákóczi started a national freedom fight based on serfs and on help promised by the king of France (Louis XIV) and the czar of Russia (Peter the Great).

Performing diplomacy as a good negotiator (resulting in the protocols of January 1700 with the leader of the Szatmár (Satu Mare) citadel, count F. Löwenburg, Pintea was declared, "one of the most significant Romanians of the 17th century".

[3] In spring 1703, several cities in the north of Transylvania – Zilah (Zalău), Szatmár (Satu Mare), Beszterce (Bistrița), Dés (Dej), Máramarossziget (Sighetu Marmației) – are taken by the revolt.

In the church of Budești there is the iron shirt and helmet worn by Pintea in fights against the Tartars and in the Nagybánya (Baia Mare) museum one can see his weapons and horse tools.

On the marble tomb-stone one can read the following: “The legend tells that Pintea the Brave, whose life was cut short by the tricks of the Baia Mare nobility on August 7, 1703, was buried in this place by his soldiers”.