While at the dentist office on the gas, listening to History Channel, there were TRUE accounts being examined of "Count"? Dracule.?)...aka Vlad the impaler. Great history stuff. I heard it said, that the Pope commissioned him to fight in the Crusades. Vlad had a keep built, and those not worthy to fight in battle are the ones he impaled. When a highly respected Nobleman complained of the odor, he used and extra long stick, to impale him above the rest and proclaimed, "You are above the odor now" something like that. Anyway, was he commisioned by the "Pope" to fight the "protestants" in the crusades. Also something about the commision written blood, at his birth. I could research web, but I want avatar knowledge. I ask here in this forum. for some facts. Your answers are greatly appreciated. and hopefully interesting! Time frame? 15?? any specific documented battles I can research? how is wife died? and about the "Pope". this is not a religous question, a "history" one!
2007-06-13 06:39:08 · 6 answers · asked by burn out 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Vlad III was born in November or December of 1431 in the Transylvanian city of Sighisoara. At the time his father, Vlad II (Vlad Dracul), was living in exile in Transylvania. The house where he was born is still standing. It was located in a prosperous neighborhood surrounded by the homes of Saxon and Magyar merchants and the townhouses of the nobility.
hop the hyperlink helps you with the real prince dracula...dun drink any blood..=)
2007-06-13 15:29:46 · answer #1 · answered by K.J 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Bram Stoker's "count Dracula" is just a fictional character and has little in common with Vlad III Basarab (also known as Vlad the Impaler, Vlad Dracula etc.), which was a 15th century prince of Wallachia (Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia are the main regions in today's Romania).
Like it's already been said, Vlad the Impaler was born around 1430, most likely in the Transylvanian city of Sighisoara as the son of a former prince of Wallachia. He managed to acquire the throne of Wallachia in 1456, attacked the Ottoman Empire in the winter of 1461/1462 and was removed the following summer by a large Ottoman invasion. He retreated to Hungary, was imprisoned for some unclear reasons, but he was soon released. Around this time he converted to Catholicism ( he was born and raised as an Orthodox Christian). In 1475 - 1476 he regained the throne of Wallachia, but was assassinated in late 1476.
As for the stuff about the Pope and the "protestants" I guess it's a just misunderstanding: Vlad's father, Vlad II Basarab, was a member of the "Order of the Dragon", a group that was supposed to fight mainly against the Hussite heretics (and also against the Muslim Ottomans and Tartars), but this order wasn't created by the Pope, it was created by the German emperor Sigismund and most importantly, there's no evidence that Vlad the Impaler himself was in this group, just his father.
The other stuff, about the selective impalements or about his wife throwing herself off a cliff to escape the invading Ottomans are pure fantasy.
2007-06-14 01:13:12 · answer #2 · answered by XIII 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Vlad the impaler was alive around the 14 hundreds. His last name or surname was Dracula. His father got in battles with the Ottoman empire. His father was captured and killed by them. Vlad then fought with his other brothers for the throne which he eventually won. Then he got into some battles with the Turks. The ones that he captured he would impale them. Later in his life his wife was unfaithful to him so he had her impaled and skinned (i think) and was done that in the town square.
2007-06-13 09:32:15 · answer #3 · answered by eggy 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Vlad Tepes/Dracula spent most of his time fighting against the Ottoman Empire.
"...his family was raised Catholic for political reasons, to avoid offending Sigismund I, Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and ruler of Germany, Hungary and Bohemia. He had more in common, however, with the Romanian Orthodox Church and favoured monasteries in Tismana and Snagov. In the wider arena of Christian versus the infidel, he saw himself as a Crusader against the Turks..."
http://www.tabula-rasa.info/DarkAges/VladTheImpaler.html
This is a good site to start with. It has links to various resources (including Vlad's family tree) and includes a bibliography:
http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Balkan/Dracula.html
Towards the bottom here, there is information about Vlad's family:
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/vlad.html
2007-06-13 08:29:19 · answer #4 · answered by Sybaris 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Vlad III "the Impaler" AKA "Vlad Å¢epeÅ", AKA Dracula ("Son of Dracul") : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlad_III_Dracula
2007-06-13 06:55:13 · answer #5 · answered by Erik Van Thienen 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
History Lesson:
Dracul is the Romanian word for Devil
Dracula is the Romanian word for Deviless.
Dracula refers to a female. The female who killed her seamstresses in order to bathe in their blood to keep her skin young.
2007-06-13 15:47:51 · answer #6 · answered by Laszlo D 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋