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Vlad III is known as Vlad Țepeș (or Vlad the Impaler) in Romanian historiography. [12] This sobriquet is connected to the impalement that was his favorite method of execution. [ 12 ] The Ottoman writer Tursun Beg referred to him as Kazıklı Voyvoda (Impaler Lord) around 1500. [ 12 ]
On July 22, 1456, Vlad II Dracul's son Vlad III Dracula led a small army of mercenaries into Wallachia, when they were intercepted by Vladislav and his men near Târgșor. The commanders agreed to settle the dispute in single combat , so Vladislav and Dracula engaged in hand-to-hand combat in front of their hosts until Vlad Dracula struck a ...
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.
Son of Vlad IV. Mihnea I the Bad (Mihnea cel Rău) 23 April 1508 – 29 October 1509 Smaranda no children Voica three children: Son of Vlad III. Abdicated to his son. Died 1510. Mircea III the Dragon (Mircea III Dracul) 29 October 1509 – 26 January 1510 Maria of Serbia 1519 two children: Son of Mihnea I. Vlad V the Younger (Vlad cel Tânăr)
Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom herself was descended from Princess Stanca of Basarab (1518?-1601) as an eighth-generation descendant of Claudine Rhédey von Kis-Rhéde of Erdőszentgyörgy, a Hungarian countess from the Teck-Cambridge family. Elizabeth was thus also a great-grandniece of Vlad IV the Monk. [18] [19]
The Wallachian ruler Vlad Țepeș (Vlad the Impaler; 1448–1476) does not seem to have had a significant role in the history of the fortress, although he passed several times through the Bran Gorge. At some point, Bran Castle belonged to the Hungarian kings , but due to the failure of King Vladislas II (r. 1471–1516) to repay loans, the city ...
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 ...
Ottoman attempts to subdue Vlad militarily proved a failure, but his cruelty, which had terrorized his enemies, proved to be his undoing. When Mehmed offered the populace the choice of Vlad or his brother Radu, the populace chose Radu and soon Vlad was again an exile on the run. An attempt to return a few years afterwards ended in his death in ...