GORY AND BLOODY FACTS ABOUT THE REAL DRACULA
Added on: 21st Aug 2016
THE REAL HISTORICAL DRACULA WAS VLAD III
(AKA VLAD THE IMPALER). HE WAS BORN IN
SIGHISOARA, TRANSYLVANIA, IN 1431. A RESTAURANT
SITS AT THE SITE OF HIS BIRTHPLACE TODAY AND
RECEIVES THOUSANDS OF TOURISTS ANNUALLY
FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD
DRACULA’S FATHER WAS CALLED DRACUL,
MEANING “DRAGON” ACCORDING TO SOME
SOURCES, AND “DEVIL” ACCORDING TO OTHERS,
BECAUSE HE BELONGED TO THE ORDER OF THE
DRAGON, WHICH FOUGHT THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
HOWEVER, DRACULA’S MOTHER IS UNKNOWN, THOUGH
AT THE TIME, HIS FATHER WAS BELIEVED TO HAVE
BEEN MARRIED TO PRINCESS CNEAJNA OF MOLDAVIA.
BECAUSE HE HAD A NUMBER OF MISTRESSES AT
ALL TIMES, NOBODY CAN BE SURE WHICH WAS
DRACULA’S REAL MOTHER
DRACULA LIVED IN A TIME OF CONSTANT WAR.
TRANSYLVANIA WAS AT THE FRONTIER OF TWO GREAT
EMPIRES: THE OTTOMAN AND THE AUSTRIAN
HABSBURGS. HE WAS IMPRISONED AT A YOUNG AGE,
FIRST BY THE TURKS, WHO HAULED HIM AWAY IN
CHAINS, AND LATER BY THE HUNGARIANS. DRACULA’S
FATHER WAS MURDERED, WHILE HIS OLDER BROTHER,
MIRCEA, WAS BLINDED WITH RED-HOT IRON STAKES
AND BURIED ALIVE, TWO FACTS THAT CONTRIBUTED
A LOT TO HIM BECOMING SO VILE AND VICIOUS
LATER IN LIFE
IT IS BELIEVED THAT A YOUNG DRACULA SPENT
SOME TIME IN CONSTANTINOPLE IN 1443 IN THE
COURT OF CONSTANTINE XI PALAIOLOGOS, A
LEGENDARY FIGURE OF GREEK FOLKLORE AND
THE FINAL EMPEROR OF THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE.
IT IS SUGGESTED BY SOME HISTORIANS THAT
IT WAS THERE THAT HE DEVELOPED HIS
HATE TOWARD THE OTTOMANS
IT IS BELIEVED DRACULA WAS MARRIED TWICE.
HIS FIRST WIFE’S IDENTITY IS UNKNOWN, THOUGH
SHE MAY HAVE BEEN A TRANSYLVANIAN NOBLEWOMAN.
SHE BORE HIS SON AND HEIR, MIHNEA CEL RAU. HE
MARRIED A SECOND TIME AFTER HIS PERIOD OF
IMPRISONMENT IN HUNGARY. ILONA SZILAGYI WAS THE
DAUGHTER OF A HUNGARIAN NOBLE AND SHE BORE
HIM TWO SONS, NEITHER OF WHOM BECAME RULERS
THE NAME TEPES IS ROMANIAN FOR “THE IMPALER.”
IT WAS A TITLE GIVEN TO HIM POSTHUMOUSLY
VLAD III EARNED HIS “IMPALER” MONIKER BY KILLING
THOUSANDS OF TURKS AND OTHERS BY THE GRISLY
METHOD THAT HE LEARNED DURING HIS TEENS, WHEN
HE WAS A POLITICAL HOSTAGE OF THE OTTOMAN
EMPIRE IN CONSTANTINOPLE
IT’S ESTIMATED THAT DRACULA WAS RESPONSIBLE
FOR THE DEATH OF MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED
THOUSAND PEOPLE (MOST OF THEM TURKS), MAKING
HIM THE SINGLE MOST VICIOUS ENEMY THE
OTTOMAN EMPIRE EVER FACED
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