 Following this massacre, some of the wealthiest boyars and the relatives of those killed went into exile in Transylvania and Hungary, where they came together and tried twice to depose him from the throne.The first attempt came at the Battle of Periș, on August 24, 1546, when the host of boyars in exile was attacked by surprise and decimated by Mircea the Shepherd.At the beginning of 1548 a new exodus of the boyars remaining in Wallachia took place, headed by Stoica the "stolnic", Vintilă the "vornic", Radu the "great logofăt" and Pârvu the "postelnic".