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Vlad's early life is poorly documented. [1] He was born before 1395, [1] and was one of the numerous illegitimate sons of Mircea I of Wallachia. [1] Vlad's modern biographers agree that he was sent as a hostage to Sigismund of Luxembourg, King of Hungary, in 1395 or 1396.
Vlad was the second legitimate son of Vlad II Dracul, who was himself an illegitimate son of Mircea I of Wallachia. Vlad II had won the moniker "Dracul" for his membership in the Order of the Dragon, a militant fraternity founded by Sigismund of Luxemburg, King of Hungary.
The line of the Drăculești began with Vlad II Dracul ("the Dragon"), son of one of the most important rulers of the Basarab dynasty, Mircea the Elder.The name Drăculești is the patronymic of Dracul, which according to most historians is derived from the 1431 membership of Vlad II in the Order of the Dragon (Societas draconistarum) that had been founded in 1408 AD by Holy Roman Emperor ...
Deutsch: Vlad Ţepeş, der Pfähler, Woywode der Walachei 1456-1465 (gestorben 1477) Aussprache auf Deutsch:Wlad Tzepesch. English: Vlad Ţepeş, the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia (1456-1462) (died 1477)
Dark Prince: The True Story of Dracula tells the story of Vlad Dracula, the historical figure who gave Bram Stoker's Dracula his name. Vlad is a dispossessed noble and a patriot who fights the occupation forces of the Turks hoping to avenge the murder of his father by Romanian nobles and the capture of his brother by the Ottoman sultan.
Mehmed's forces reach the port city of Nicopolis; an epic battle along the Danube River looms, and Vlad has the upper hand. In a flashback, Radu and his brother Vlad the Impaler are being raised by Murad II in Constantinople to ensure that their father Vlad II Dracul doesn't join forces with Hungary to fight against Ottomans.
(Vlad Țepeș) 20 August 1456 – July 1462 June 1476 - January 1477 Unknown one child Justina Szilágyi Between 1475 and 1476 no children: Son of Vlad II Dracul, invaded briefly Wallachia in 1448 (October–November) while Vladislav II was away. His real rulership would begin after killing Vladislav II in battle. Vlad III was at war against ...
Dracul may refer to: Vlad II Dracul (1390s–1447), a Wallachia noble, father of the figure later known as "Vlad the Impaler", Mircea III Dracul, a prince of Wallachia; Dracul, a 2018 prequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula written by Dacre Stoker and J. D. Barker