What did Vlad Tepes do to people?

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what did vlad tepes do that was so bad?

Answer 1

Vlad III Ţepeş has been characterized, by some, as exceedingly cruel. Impalement was Ţepeş's preferred method of torture and execution.

As expected, death by impalement was slow and painful. Victims sometimes endured for hours or days. Vlad often had the stakes arranged in various geometric patterns. The most common pattern was a ring of concentric circles in the outskirts of a city that constituted his target. The height of the spear indicated the rank of the victim. The corpses were often left decaying for months.

There are claims that thousands of people were impaled at a single time. One such claim says 10,000 were impaled in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu (where Vlad the Impaler had once lived) in 1460. Another allegation asserts that during the previous year, on Saint Bartholomew's Day (in August), Vlad the Impaler had 30,000 of the merchants and officials of the Transylvanian city of Braşov that were breaking his authority impaled.

Impalement was Vlad the Impaler's favourite but, like most European royalty, by no means his only method of torture. The list of tortures employed by many heads of state is extensive: nails in heads, cutting off of limbs, blinding, strangulation, burning, cutting off of noses and ears, mutilation of sexual organs (especially in the case of women), scalping, skinning, exposure to the elements or to animals, and boiling alive.

No one was immune to Vlad the Impaler's attentions. His victims included women and children, peasants and great lords, ambassadors from foreign powers and merchants. However, the vast majority of his European victims came from the merchants and boyars of Transylvania and his own country, Wallachia. Many have attempted to justify Vlad's actions on the basis of nascent nationalism and political necessity. Most of the merchants in Transylvania and Wallachia were Saxons who were seen as parasites, preying upon Romanian natives of Wallachia, while the boyars had proven their disloyalty time and time again (Vlad's own father and older brother were murdered by unfaithful boyars). His actions were likely driven by one or more of three motives: personal or political vendettas, the establishment of iron-fisted law and order in Wallachia, and nationalizing the province's economy through policies that would be identified today as economic nationalism.

Vlad Ţepeş is alleged to have committed even more impalements and other tortures against invading Ottoman forces. It was reported that an invading Ottoman army turned back in fright when it encountered thousands of rotting corpses impaled on the banks of the Danube. It has also been said that in 1462 Mehmed II, the conqueror of Constantinople, a man not noted for his squeamishness, returned to Constantinople after being sickened by the sight of 20,000 impaled corpses outside of Vlad's capital of Târgovişte. Many of the victims were Turkish prisoners of war Vlad had previously captured during the Turkish invasion. The total Turkish casualty toll in this battle reached over 40,000. The warrior sultan turned command of the campaign against Vlad over to subordinates and returned to Istanbul, even though his army had initially outnumbered Vlad's three to one and was better equipped.

Almost as soon as he came to power, his first significant act of cruelty may have been motivated by a desire of revenge as well as a need to solidify his power. Early in his reign he gave a feast for his boyars and their families to celebrate Easter. Vlad was well aware that many of these same nobles were part of the conspiracy that led to his father's assassination and the burying alive of his elder brother, Mircea. Many had also played a role in the overthrow of numerous Wallachian princes. During the feast Vlad asked his noble guests how many princes had ruled during their life times. All of the nobles present had outlived several princes. One answered that at least thirty princes had held the throne during his life. None had seen less than seven reigns. Vlad immediately had all the assembled nobles arrested. The older boyars and their families were impaled on the spot. The younger and healthier nobles and their families were marched north from Târgovişte to the ruins of Poienari Castle in the mountains above the Argeş River. Vlad the Impaler was determined to rebuild this ancient fortress as his own stronghold and refuge. The enslaved boyars and their families were forced to labor for months rebuilding the old castle with materials from another nearby ruin. According to the reports, they labored until the clothes fell off their bodies and then were forced to continue working naked. Very few of the old gentry survived the ordeal of building Vlad's castle.

Throughout his reign, Vlad systematically eradicated the old boyar class of Wallachia. The old boyars had repeatedly undermined the power of the prince during previous reigns and had been responsible for the violent overthrow of several princes. Apparently Vlad Ţepeş was determined that his own power be on a modern and thoroughly secure footing. In place of the executed boyars, Vlad promoted new men from among the free peasantry and middle class; men who would be loyal only to their prince. Many of Vlad's acts can be interpreted as efforts to strengthen and modernize the central government at the expense of the decaying feudal powers of nobility carried over from the Middle Ages.

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In Romania, Vlad Tepes is considered a hero for defending his country against invaders, but he wasn't exactly gentle about doing it. He wasn't a vampire, but he was bloodthirsty. He was known to have his enemies impaled on stakes and left there, hence his nickname, "Vlad the Impaler." He signed documents "Vlad Drakula" (Drakul is the Romanian word for "dragon").

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Some of the wilder stories about Vlad "Dracula" Tepes:
http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm#Anecdotes

Answer 5

I did my senior report on him in high school. One of the most notable things he was responsible for was the "forest of the impaled". The ottomon empire came to invade Wallachia, so Vladimir had over 10,000 people impaled around his kingdom. When the aproaching army came to this forest of impaled people, many of whom were still alive and dying slowly, they turned around and left in disgust,even though their army could have easily won. He got his vampire-like legacy because it wa noted that he enjoyed dipping bread in the cut open wombs of pregnant women and eating it. He is known for his love of impailing as well. Once, he hosted a dinner for diplomats in his country. He had a bunch of peoole impaled around the table, and when one of the diplomats plugged his nose because of the smell (I believe it was a French diplomat), Vlad ordered him to be impaled on a 20 foot stake, twice as high as the other impalem people, so that the diplomat could be above the stench. Another time, he was traveling across the land, and saw a man working in a field with holes in his pants. Vlad stopped and asked the man if he was married and why his wife had not patched his pants up. The man to Vlad that he loved his wife very much, but that she was busy taking care of the children,. cleaning, cooking, etc. Vlad ordered the mans wife to be killed, ignoring the man when he claimed he loved her and did not want her dead, and had another wife who would sew for the man ordered to marry him. Another diplomat story was that a Chinese diplomat once refused to remove his hat for Vlad while visiting Wallachia. Because the man refused to remove his hat, Vlad had it nailed to the mans head so he would never have to take it off. These are just a few of his attrocities, but they are some of the more notable ones. I would suggest looking into the forest of the impaled, as it was definately one of his most memorable attrocities.

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Forest Of The Impaled

Answer 7

He was Vlad the Impaler, like to impale them, often while he was dining.

Answer 8

He impaled Turks on stakes and ate his dinner surrounded by dying enemies
He nailed the turbans of Turkish prisoners to their heads and sent plague victims and lepers to Turkish camps to infect them.
He was nicknamed Dracula (the Dragon) by his enemies because of his savage brutality and was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's character.
One of his later relatives was Elizabeth Bathory, she drank the blood of servant girls to stay young.