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Vlad Tepes

Vlad Tepes. ROMANIA.

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Vlad Tepes

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  1. Vlad Tepes ROMANIA

  2. Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, more commonly known as Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Ţepeş in Romanian), also known as Vlad Dracula, or simply Dracula (1431 – December 1476), was a Wallachian (present-day southern Romania) voivode. His three reigns were in 1448, 1456–1462, and 1476. Vlad the Impaler is known for the exceedingly cruel punishments he imposed as ruler of Wallachia.[1]Impalement was Ţepeş's preferred method of torture and execution.[2]

  3. Vlad Tepes

  4. Dragon Order

  5. His father, Vlad II Dracul, was attracted to the Order of the Dragon about one year before. Order - which can be compared with the Order of Malta or the Order of the Knights Teuton - was a military-religious society, whose bases were laid in 1387 by Sigismund of Luxembourg, King of Hungary (later Holy Roman Emperor) and the - of his second wife, Barbara Cilli. Dragon was the symbol of the Order. The main purposes of such fraternal orders were to protect the interests of Catholicism and the crusade against the Turkish Ottomans. Due to its belonging to the Order of the Dragon, the father of Vlad "Ţepeş was Vlad Dracul, and Called the" devil "at the time keeping the significance and the dragon. As the son of Vlad II Dracul, Vlad III the century and was Called the "Dracula", the very term used by Vlad Ţepeş in official correspondence. Ţepeş nickname was attributed to Vlad III of the century executions by common thorn pulled on it seems that they ordered. Even the Turks called it Kazikli Bey, (meaning Prince Ţepeş). This name was first used in a chronic valaha in 1550 and kept in Romanian history.

  6. Presupusul mormânt al lui Vlad Ţepeş de la Mănăstirea Snagov

  7. Earliest known portrait of Vlad the Impaler from c. 1560 • Reign1448; 1456–1462; 1476 • Born1431 • BirthplaceSighişoara, Transylvania • DiedDecember 1476 (age 45) • Place of deathBucharest, Wallachia • PredecessorVladislav II of Wallachia,Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân • SuccessorVladislav II of Wallachia,Radu cel Frumos,Basarab Laiotă cel Bătrân • Wives(1)A Transylvanian noblewoman;(2) Ilona Szilágy • OffspringMihnea cel Rău (w/ first wife, a Transylvanian noblewoman);Vlad Dracula & another son (name unkwown) w/ second wife Ilona Szilágy • Royal HouseHouse of Drăculeşti (branch of the House of Basarab • FatherVlad II Dracul • MotherPrincess

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