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Signature. 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 ...
- Eupraxia of Moldavia (?)
- Vlad II of Wallachia
- Vladislav II
- The Gory Sacking of Brașov
- The Burning of The Beggars
- The Forest of The Impaled
- The Feet-Flaying Torture
- The Massacre of The Boyars
- The Impalement of The Monk
- The Cauldron of Death
Growing up, Vlad had learned about the art of governing through fear and cunning. Ottoman Sultan Murad IIhad held a teenage Vlad, and the powerful Hungarian nobleman John Hunyadi, under whose flag Vlad fought battles against the Ottomans in his twenties, as hostages. It was in these initial battles in the early 1450s that Vlad began to acquire his ...
Vlad loved to burn things, living up to his last name which means ‘son of the dragon'. There were many occasions when Vlad was said to have had enemy combatants, or the people of towns and villages he was sacking, roasted alive. One particularly nasty example did not occur on the battlefield, though – it happened at a banquet in a great hall in Vla...
In 1462, about 60 miles from Târgoviște, Sultan Mehmed II (who had led his army west to destroy Vlad) and his men were stopped in their tracks by a grisly sight. It was what one contemporary historian called a ‘field of stakes’ and must have resembled a forest of impaled Ottoman men, women, and children. Babies were impaled with their mothers and r...
A favourite method of torture of Vlad’s that he would mete out to Turkish prisoners was to have their feet flayed (the skin removed). The raw, bloody limb was rubbed in salt, and goats were brought up to lick the salt off with their rough tongues.
One of Vlad’s most infamous acts of brutality was his purge of the boyars. The boyars were an aristocratic ruling class in many parts of Eastern Europe, including Wallachia. Vlad, once he became prince in 1456, saw the corrupt and scheming boyars as a potential threat to his position. In Easter1457, Vlad summoned the principality’s boyars to an aud...
In about 1490, a Russian monastery compiled a set of nineteen stories about the life of Vlad. One of these tales concerned two Hungarian monks who paid a visit to the prince at his capital. Vlad, according to the account, proudly showed the monks a gruesome display of some of his dead victims' mangled bodies broken on wheels and ‘countless people o...
One medieval chronicle describes a truly awful method of execution that Vlad employed from time to time. The wicked nobleman had, according to the story, a huge copper cauldron in his castle topped with a wooden cover. In the centre of the wooden lid was a hole big enough for a man’s head to fit through. The pot was filled with water, a fire was li...
21 hours ago · Vlad the Impaler (born 1431, Sighișoara, Transylvania [now in Romania]—died 1476, north of present-day Bucharest, Romania) voivode (military governor, or prince) of Walachia (1448; 1456–1462; 1476) whose cruel methods of punishing his enemies gained notoriety in 15th-century Europe. Some in the scholarly community have suggested that Bram ...
- Richard Pallardy
- How did Vlad the Impaler become famous?Vlad was a voivode (prince) of Walachia (part of modern Romania). Surrounded by enemies that included the Hungarians, the Ottomans, his younger bro...
- What was Vlad the Impaler’s childhood like?Vlad was the second son of Vlad II Dracul. When he was 11 years old, Vlad was sent to the court of the Ottoman sultan Murad II as a hostage. His fa...
- How did Vlad the Impaler change the world?Vlad was a minor player during the early period of Ottoman domination of what is today Romania. He likely would have remained a historical curiosit...
- How did Vlad the Impaler die?In 1476 Vlad was ambushed by an Ottoman patrol and killed. He was reportedly decapitated, and his head was sent to the sultan in Constantinople as...
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Aug 15, 2023 · The study reveals that his tears of blood were caused by a medical condition that would leak blood into his tear ducts on any occasion where he felt the urge to weep. While not the most serious of his ailments, the most eye-opening of Vlad the Impaler’s disorders was the incredibly rare hemolacria, which causes a person to cry tears that ...
- Nathan Falde
- His family name means “dragon” The name Dracul was given to Vlad’s father Vlad II by his fellow knights who belonged to a Christian crusading order known as the Order of the Dragon.
- He was born in Wallachia, present-day Romania. Vlad III was born in 1431 in the state of Wallachia, now the southern portion of present-day Romania. It was one of the three principalities that made up Romania at the time, along with Transylvania and Moldova.
- He was held hostage for 5 years. In 1442, Vlad accompanied his father and his 7-year-old brother Radu on a diplomatic mission in the heart of the Ottoman Empire.
- His father and brother were both killed. Upon his return, Vlad II was overthrown in a coup orchestrated by local war lords known as the boyar. He was killed in the marshes behind his house while his oldest son, Mircea II, was tortured, blinded and buried alive.
At the beginning of May, Vlad crossed the border into Transylvania and started destroying villages, crops, and the outskirts of towns, and taking people prisoner. It is said that he had dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people impaled in front of Kronstadt, as a reminder of the wretched help they had given to his enemy. The looting was also great.
Oct 31, 2013 · Vlad III was born in 1431 in Transylvania, a mountainous region in modern-day Romania.His father was Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, a principality located to the south of Transylvania. Vlad ...
