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Mircea III Dracul. Mircea III Dracul (died 1534) was one of the two sons of Mihnea cel Rău, making him the grandson of Vlad Dracula. He ruled as prince of Wallachia between 12 October 1509 and 26 January 1510. [1] [2]
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia called "Vlad the Impaler" and also known as Vlad Dracula or simply Dracula, in Romanian Drăculea (1431 – December 1476), was a Wallachian (southern Romania) voivode (military commander). His three reigns were in 1448, 1456–1462, and 1476. Vlad the Impaler is known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he ...
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Vlad II ( Romanian: Vlad al II-lea ), also known as Vlad Dracul ( Vlad al II-lea Dracul) or Vlad the Dragon (before 1395 – November 1447), was Voivode of Wallachia from 1436 to 1442, and again from 1443 to 1447. He is internationally known as the father of Vlad the Impaler, or Dracula. Born an illegitimate son of Mircea I of Wallachia, he ...
Vlad III, commonly known as Vlad the Impaler ( Romanian: Vlad Țepeș [ ˈ v l a d ˈ ts e p e ʃ]) or Vlad Dracula ( / ˈdrækjʊlə, - jə -/; Romanian: Vlad Drăculea [ ˈ d r ə k u l e̯a]; 1428/31 – 1476/77), was Voivode of Wallachia three times between 1448 and his death in 1476/77. He is often considered one of the most important ...
Oct 31, 2013 · Vlad's older brother, Mircea, was tortured, blinded and buried alive. Whether these events turned Vlad III Dracula ("son of the dragon") into a ruthless killer is a matter of historical speculation.
Vlad Dracula was born in 1431 in the Transylvanian city of Sighisoara, a descendant of a long line of Wallachian rulers. His grandfather, Mircea the Great, fathered a number of illegitimate children, including Dracula’s father Basarab. When Mircea died, Basarab was sent to the court of the Hungarian Emperor Sigismund.
He was executed, and his eldest son, Mircea, was blinded with a hot poker and buried alive. Vlad III, who had chafed at life in the Ottoman court, returned to Walachia in 1448 and, at age 17, immediately began working to regain the voivodate (princedom) of Walachia. He exacted vengeance against the boyars who had killed his father and brother ...
