VLAD III DRACULEA PRINCE OF WALLACHIA

Vlad III was born in 1431 in Sighisoara in Wallachia and he was known with the name of "Vlad Tepes" (that in Rumanian means impaler). Vlad was a member of the order of the Dragon: this order had the aim to protect the Christendam and to fight against the Turk invasion. Vlad III was the son of Vlad II that was called Dracul (dragon or devil in Rumaninan) and for this reason Vlad Tepes was called also the "Devil's son". During all his life, the prince of Wallachia had to fight against the Turks and he bacame famous for his atrocity towards his enemies: he tortured them by impalling them with two different methods (depending on the social class of the victim).
We can see Vlad's cruelty in some different episodes: in 1460 in the city of Sibiu, he impaled 10000 people and spread the corpses with honey in order to attract every kind of insect; in 1461 an ambassador of the Sultan didn't take off his turban in the presence of Vlad so the prince made nail it on the messenger's head. Vlad reigned on the Wallachia for three times: the first on 1448, the second from 1456 to 1462 and the third in 1475. During all his reigns he impaled between 40000 to 100000 people until he died in 1476 during a battle against Ottomans. We hadn't precise informations about Vlad's corpse: some people think that it was burned, some others think that it was divided and exposed in Istanbul and some others think that it was buried in a church in Snagov.

Francesco Poggi

Vlad III of Valacchia

HIS LIFE:
Vlad III was born in Sighişoara,Valacchia, on 2nd November of 1431 and he was a Voivòda,a special rank of general in East of Europe of tha times, and also the prince of that territories.
Uder his domination he managed in keeping the indipendece by Ottoman Empire, so this actions won him the title of hero, on the other hand his cruelty won him the appellative of Ţepeş(that means the impaler).
He was imprisoned from 1462 after the treason of Mattia Corvino of Hungary and got back his freedom in 1475 thanks to Stephen the Great,but he had to marry Stephen's daughter, to change his religion, and to lead a crusade against the Turkish in the 1476,in which he found the death on the battlefield.

THE ORIGIN OF HIS NAME:
Vlad III was also known as Drăculea and as The Tepes.
The first refers to Vlad II,the father of Vlad III, who was known as Dracul: in rumanian language this word means at the same time dragon and devil.
The second was the result of Vlad cruelty against Turkish and other enmies of his:he used to impale them in lots of way always new, and he enjoyed watching them suffer and died

Lorenzo Bettazzi

The true history of Vlad III “the Tapes”


Vlad III Dracula was born in 1431 in Sighisoara, a medieval village in Transylvania and he was the son of Vlad II, the Prince of Wallachia. Since he was young he didn’t receive many attentions from his father, who was mainly mindful of his firstborn, and so he was assigned to Byzantine monks in order to receive a Christian education.
In the middle of 15th century Vlad II was oppressed by many foreign powers and was forced to interrupt the war against Turks in order to obtain the military support of Sultan Murad, who invited him to Adrianople to treat. However Vlad II , aware of the inclemency of Turks, brought with him his two sons – Vlad III and Radu – to offer them as hostages to save his life.
During his imprisonment Vlad III had the opportunity to learn the techniques used by Turks to torture prisoners, and he remained so impressed by the torture of impaling that, during his second reign, he inflicted it to such a high number of convicted that he started to be known as “the tapes” (which means “the impaler” in the Rumanian language).
In 1447 as soon as he received the news of his father’s death he decided to escape from his prison in order to recover the throne of his father, but his first reign lasted only a few months due to the return of Vladislao, who has been appointed successor to his father during his imprisonment. In 1456 Vlad III managed to regain the throne and he immediately started such a cruel repression against his enemies that earned the role of protagonist in Stoker’s novel: Dracula. At the end of his second reign he was deposed thanks to a deception of Turks and he managed to obtain his reign back only in 1475 but, just one year later, he was killed on the battlefield.

Renfield

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Vlad III

This is my work on Vlad III, it is the description about the life and the horrific punishment of this leader.

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about Dracula...

It is believed that the character of Dracula in Bram Stoker’s novel was based upon the historical figure Vlad Tepes (pronounced tse-pesh), who intermittently ruled an area of the Balkans called Wallachia in the mid 15th century.


He was also called by the names Vlad III, Vlad Dracula and Vlad the Impaler. The word Tepes stands for "impaler" and was so coined because of Vlad’s propensity to punish victims by impaling them on stakes, then displaying them publicly to frighten his enemies and to warn would-be transgressors of his strict moral code. He is credited with killing between 40,000 to 100,000 people in this fashion.

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