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Modern historians identify Vlad's mother either as a daughter or kinswoman of Alexander I of Moldavia [14] [17] [18] or as his father's unknown first wife. [19] The house in the main square of Sighișoara where Vlad's father lived from 1431 to 1435. Vlad II Dracul seized Wallachia after the death of his half-brother Alexander I Aldea in 1436.
Vlad married Justina as his second wife after his release. [10] [11] [note 1] Corvinus recognised Vlad, in 1475, as the lawful ruler of Wallachia, but he provided no support to Vlad in asserting his claim against Basarab Laiotă. [12] Vlad acquired a house in Pécs, which soon became known as "Drakwlyaháza" ("Dracula's house"). [13]
Mihnea cel Rău (Mihnea the Wrongdoer/Mean/Evil; c.1460 – 12 March 1510), the son of Vlad III Dracula (Vlad Țepeș), and his first wife, was Voivode of Wallachia from 1508 to 1509, having replaced his first cousin Radu cel Mare. [1] During his reign, he ruled alongside his son Mircea III Dracul in the year 1509.
Vlad's eldest sons, Mircea and Vlad Dracula, were first mentioned in a charter of Vlad on 20 January 1437. [73] Mircea was born in about 1428, Vlad between 1429 and 1431. [ 73 ] Their brother (Vlad Dracul's third son), Radu the Fair , was born before 2 August 1439. [ 73 ]
Portrait of Vlad (Dracula) the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia, ... Daughter of Zaganos Mehmed Pasha by his first wife Sitti Nefise Hatun. She entered the harem in 1463 ...
In Anno Dracula, an alternative history novel series by Kim Newman, where Count Dracula won and spread vampirism across the world—in Dracula Cha Cha Cha, Count Dracula's first wife is mentioned as "Elisabeta of Transylvania"; [130] the name was taken from this film version (Vlad the Impaler's first wife's name is unknown historically). [131]
The National Theatre of Scotland's new production Dracula: Mina's Reckoning puts women at its heart.
In Hotel Transylvania (2012), Dracula's wife Martha (voiced by Jackie Sandler) is an homage to the Brides of Dracula. In the Dungeons & Dragons adventure module Curse of Strahd , three brides of Strahd (named Ludmilla Vilisevic, Anastrasya Karelova, and Volenta Popofsky) appear as enemies in the catacombs of Castle Ravenloft.