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- The House of Draculesti
- Ottoman Sultan Murad II Holds Vlad Hostage
- Vlad The Impaler: Voivode of Wallachia
- Vlad III Dracula Leaves Over 80,000 Dead
- Capture and Imprisonment: 1462-1475
- Vlad The Impaler Beheaded
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The brutal Vlad the Impaler, believed to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Dracula, was born in Sighisoara, Transylvania (today’s Romania) in 1431. He was part of the Draculesti dynasty. Vlad was the 2nd son of Vlad II Dracul and Eupraxia of Moldavia. The addition of an "a" to his surname denoted that he was Vlad II’s son. Draco meant dragon and...
In 1442 Vlad and his younger brother Radu travelled to the Ottoman court with their father. Sultan Murad II craftily used the boys as collateral after discussions with Vlad II Dracul. The Sultan arrested his guests because he wanted to ensure that the Voivode of Wallachia fulfilled his promises of allegiance. Vlad II was released and sent back to W...
Vlad returned to Wallachia and tried to claim leadership as Voivode Vlad III Dracula (Vlad III Draculea in Romanian). Unfortunately for Vlad, his younger brother Radu, the boyars and the Sultan opposed him. After a troubled two-month rule, Vlad III Dracula was deposed. It took him eight years to regain control. Throughout his second period as Voivo...
He did not limit impalement to domestic enemies. His international opponents were just as likely to find themselves impaled and staring up to the sky screaming as their lives ebbed away. There were unconfirmed reports that Vlad liked to dip bread in the blood of his dying victims and eat the morsels as they watched. In 1453 the Ottomans took contro...
In 1462 Vlad the Impaler left an entire battlefield littered with bodies impaled on stakes as a warning to advancing Ottoman soldiers. He was said to have dined among the bodies before he departed. The same year Vlad was only saved from capture by the Ottoman army by the Hungarians who he thought were allies. Their ruler Matthias Corvinus I of Hung...
In 1476 Vlad III Dracula was released by Matthias I and he managed to reclaim power in Wallachia. His victory was short-lived. He was killed in battle near Bucharest on the 14th of December 1476. After he was unceremoniously beheaded his head was sent to Sultan Mehmed II and displayed. Vlad’s successor was his younger brother Radu, known as Radu II...
We talk about the second wife of Vlad Tepes - and her life beyond that.
Justina Szilágyi is the 2nd wife to Vlad the impaler.She was a Hungarian Nobleman, and is described as Ambitious and kind. It is rumored when they met they were instantly smitten with eachother. Vlad went to Transylvania to seek an ally from Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, in late 1462, but Corvinus had him imprisoned. Vlad was held in ...
Pongrác was the first spouse of Erdélyi's future daughter-in-law, Justina Szilágyi, who inherited the castle after her husband's death 1474. Stephen Erdélyi and his family laid claim to Justina's castle at Gernyeszeg and the nearby villages in 1478. To secure her position, she married Paul Suki, a nephew of a one-time co-owner of the estate.
- 1418/1422
- 1462–1465, 1476
- Benedict Gibárt &, George Szentiványi (1st term), Dominic Bethlen (2nd term)
- Ladislaus Nádasdi (1st term), Dominic Bethlen (2nd term)
Jun 3, 2023 · Born in the late fifteenth century, Justina Szilágyi is a symbol of strength and the nobility of womanhood. Living quietly in her Hungarian palace, her peaceful existence suddenly comes to an end when her cousin, the young King Matthias forces her to marry different men.
- Petronella Pearson
Justina Szilágyi de Horogszeg (Hungarian: horogszegi Szilágyi Jusztina; before 1455 – 1497) was a Hungarian noblewoman, who became the second wife of Vlad Dracula, Voivode of Wallachia. She was the daughter of Ladislaus or Osvát Szilágyi and thus a cousin of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary. Corvinus first gave her in marriage to Wenceslas Pongrác of Szentmiklós. Pongrác had ...
