Pintea the Brave, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1670
Place of Birth: Transylvania, Romania
Date of Death: 14-Aug-1703
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Pintea the Brave
- Grigore Pintea, aka Pintea The Brave (born February 25, 1670, Magoaja, Solnoc-Dabâca County, of the Austrian Empire, current day Romania — died August 14, 1703), was a famous heroic haiduc (vigilantee) stemming from Magoaja, Lapu? Country. Born in 1670 as a descendant of petty Romanian nobility from Magoaja in the former Solnoc-Dabâca county.
- According to legends, ballads, and movies, he antagonizes regional nobles and decides to fight against social injustice.
- He flees to the forests of the nearby Maramure? County and lives like a Robin Hood (haiduc).
- During those years, he terrorized local nobility, who strove to catch him, but according to legends, he evaded them.According to biographical records, Grigore Pintea, son of Cup?a Pintea and Malinei (born Costan), was born in the village Magoaja, close to Lapu? (nowadays in Cluj County, on the southern border of the current Maramure? County), in the same family of petty nobles as Ioan Cup?a.
- Ioan Cup?a in 1681 has built the Nicula monastery from the Cluj County, donating the famous weeping icon of Mary.
- On the lands of the same Cup?a family lays the commune Cup?eni from the Maramure? County. During the reign of emperor Leopold I, taxes levied by Austrians in Transylvania led to the curu?i revolt.
- In this context, Francisc Rákóczi II started a national freedom fight based on serfs, and on a help promised by the king of France (Ludovic XIV-lea) and the czar of Rusia (Peter the Great). Grigore Pintea was made captain, in the army Francisc Rákóczi the II-nd.
- Pintea was educated, knowing many foreign languages and military techniques, studied in imperial garrisons.
- Performing diplomacy as a good negotiator (resulting the protocols of January 1700 with the leaders of the Satmar citadel, count F.
- Löwenburg), Pintea was declared "one of the most significant Romanians from the XVII-th century". In spring 1703, several cities in the north of Transylvania (Zalau, Satmar, Bistri?a, Dej, Sighet) are taken by the revolt.
- Pintea's army had the task to conquer the Baia Mare citadel.
- In August the citadel is under siege.
- In an ambush, Pintea is fatally shot (August 14) in front of the southern gate of the citadel, close to the Tower of the Slaughterers. In the church of Bude?ti there is the iron shirt and helmet worn by Pintea in fights against Tartars, and in the Baia Mare museum one can see his weapons and horse tools. Many places in the region have names mentioning Pintea and his band of outcasts: Pinteas's Spring, Pintea's House, Pintea's Fountain, Pintea's Band, Pintea's Peak and Pintea's cavern.
- Legends talk about money hidden in caverns by Pintea.
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