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- When Vlad II was called to a diplomatic meeting in 1442 with Ottoman Sultan Murad II, he brought his young sons Vlad III and Radu along. But the meeting was actually a trap: All three were arrested and held hostage. The elder Vlad was released under the condition that he leave his sons behind.
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Radu's brother Vlad III later went on to take the throne from Vladislav II in 1456 and began his second reign for which he was to become famous. Like his older brother Mircea II, Vlad III was an able military commander and now found himself opposing the Ottomans.
Jul 22, 2023 · Six years after they were taken hostage, Vlad II was killed by local warlords, and Vlad III and Radu’s eldest brother was tortured, blinded, and buried alive. Soon afterward, Vlad II was released by the sultan and began to plot his revenge.
Nov 15, 2023 · The two brothers engaged in a series of power struggles, and Radu III was even briefly deposed by Vlad III in 1473. Sadly, only two years later, Radu III died reportedly from syphilis. Radu the Handsome passed away without reclaiming the throne sometime between 1475 and 1477.
The Wallachian nobles and army soon abandoned Vlad, and Radu became the new ruler of Wallachia. Meanwhile, Vlad had gone to Hungary to find support, but instead was arrested and put on trial by King Matthias Corvinus for killing Hungarians years earlier.
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- Struggle to Be Voivode
- Factional Conflict
- Ruler of Wallachia
- Vlad The Impaler’s Wars
- Expulsion from Wallachia
- Final Rule and Death
- Legacy and Dracula
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Vlad was born between 1428 and 1431 into the family of Vlad II Dracul. This nobleman had been allowed into the crusading Order of the Dragon (Dracul) by its creator, the Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund, to encourage him to defend both Christian east Europe and Sigismund’s lands from encroaching Ottomanforces and other threats. The Ottomans were expand...
Vlad II and his eldest son were killed by rebel boyars—Wallachian noblemen—in 1447, and a new rival called Vladislav II was put on the throne by the pro-Hungarian governor of Transylvania, called Hunyadi. At some point, Vlad III and Radu were freed, and Vlad returned to the principality to begin a campaign aimed at inheriting his father’s position ...
What followed were 29 separate reigns of 11 separate rulers, from 1418 to 1476, including Vlad III thrice. It was from this chaos, and a patchwork of local boyar factions, that Vlad sought first the throne, and then to establish a strong state through both bold actions and outright terror. There was a temporary victory in 1448 when Vlad took advant...
Established as voivode, Vlad now faced the problems of his predecessors: how to balance Hungary and the Ottomans and keep himself independent. Vlad began to rule in a bloody manner designed to strike fear into the hearts of opponents and allies alike. He ordered people to be impaled on stakes, and his atrocities were inflicted on anyone who upset h...
Vlad attempted to restore the balance of Hungarian and Ottoman interests in Wallachia and swiftly came to terms with both. However, he was soon assailed by plots from Hungary, who changed their support to a rival voivode. War resulted, during which Vlad supported a Moldovan noble who would both later fight him and earn the epithet "Stephen the Grea...
Vlad did not, as some of the pro-communist and pro-Vlad historians have claimed, defeat the Ottomans and then fall to a revolt of rebel boyars. Instead, some of Vlad’s followers fled to the Ottomans to ingratiate themselves to Radu when it became apparent that Vlad’s army could not defeat the invaders. Hungary’s forces arrived too late to aid Vlad—...
After years of imprisonment, Vlad was released by Hungary in 1474 or 1475 to seize back the Wallachian throne and fight against a forthcoming invasion by the Ottomans, on the condition he converted to Catholicism and away from Orthodoxy. After fighting for the Moldavians, he regained his throne in 1476 but was killed shortly after in a battle with ...
Many leaders have come and gone, but Vlad remains a well-known figure in European history. In some parts of Eastern Europe he is a hero for his role in fighting the Ottomans—although he fought Christians just as much, and more successfully—whereas in much of the rest of the world he is infamous for his brutal punishments, a byword for cruelty, and ...
Lallanilla, Marc. “Vlad the Impaler: The Real Dracula Was Absolutely Vicious.” NBCNews.com, NBCUniversal News Group, 31 Oct. 2013.“10 Fascinating Facts About The Real Dracula.” Listverse, 11 Oct. 2014.Webley, Kayla. “Top 10 Royals Who Would Have Been Terrible on Facebook.” Time, Time Inc., 9 Nov. 2010.Oct 26, 2022 · 1473–1475 – Rule over Wallachia shifts several times between Vlad’s brother Radu III and Basarab the Elder until Radu’s death in 1475. Another claimant is Basarab IV, the cousin of Basarab the Elder, who is supported by Stefan Bathory, Voivode of Transylvania.
Oct 22, 2024 · 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 father and elder brother were assassinated when he was 16, and Vlad spent the rest of his life fighting to claim his father's title.
