[3] The Voivodeship of Maramureș was subdivided into the seven keneziates of Bârjava, Bogdăneștilor (at the valley of the Tisza and Vișeu rivers), Câmpulung, Cosău, Mara, Talabor and Varalia.

[3] Two noblemen from the voivodeship, Dragoș and Bogdan were crucial in the founding of the Principality of Moldavia and overthrowing Hungarian rule east of the Carpathians, respectively.

The area remained sparsely populated, not surpassing 8,000 inhabitants until the thirteenth century, after the Mongol Invasion and subsequent repopulation of Hungary.

A diploma issued in 1485 by Queen Beatrice talking about a certain Vlach priest named Lawrence shows that the Romanians in Maramureș owed religious service to the Huszt castle.

[citation needed][8] Hungarian historians like Gulyás László Szabolcs and linguists like Kiss Lajos [hu] propose that the Vlach nobility has migrated around the year 1300 from the Balkans.

[17] This speculation about Bogdan's origin corresponds to the theory of continuous Vlach presence in the region and gradual evolution of its relations to the Hungarian Crown.

[21] Around this time, a number of Maramureș Romanians contributed to the Hungarian expeditions against the Golden Horde, culminating the naming of one Dragoș as head of the newly established March of Moldavia.

[18][19] Balc, having suffered heavy losses to his family and retinue, as well as grave injuries to himself, started a migration into Máramaros,[24][25] where King Louis I granted him and his brother Drag the confiscated estates of Bogdan and the Voivodeship of Maramureș, title of which the Bogdănești had been deprived, on 2 February 1365.

By 1391, the two brothers had built a church at Peri, for which they requested and received the status of Stauropegion, as they were of the Eastern Orthodox faith, rather than Roman Catholic like the near-entirety of the Hungarian nobility at the time.

This fatal blow to the voivodal polity may have occurred violently, in connection to the battles in the spring of 1402,[29] or not, as Balc was of advanced age, having been the older of the two brothers.

[26] The title of voivode would never regain the importance it had before 1402, being restricted to smaller areas in an increasingly ethnically diverse region, as former knezes reclaimed their domains during an influx of southwards Ruthenian movement.

These developments paved the way for the complete dissolution of Vlach rights in Hungary after the Peasant Revolt in Transylvania and their exclusion from the region's administration, as the Saxon, Hungarian and Székely nobility formed the Unio Trium Nationum.