Vlad Tepes - history

Most of the authorities they think that the character of Dracula in the novel of the Stoker de Bram was based on the historical figure Vlad Sods (tse-pesh pronounced), that an area of the called Balkan Mountains Wallachia in the fifteenth century governed intermittently half-full of. The names Vlad III, Vlad Dracula and Vlad also called the Impaler to you.

The Sod supports of the word for "impaler" and so were coined due to the propensity of Vlad to punish to victims empalando them in stakes, then exhibiting them public to scare their supposed enemies and to notice transgressors of their final moral code. They credit to you with killing between 40,000 100,000 people in this way.
Introduction
The origin of king well-known Sigismund of "Dracula" of Hungary, that the Roman emperor did santo in 1410, founded a secret brotherly order of the called horsemen the order of the dragoon to maintain Christianity and to defend the empire against the Turks of the Ottoman. Its emblem was a dragoon, extended wings, hanging in a cross. They admitted at your service to the father of Vlad III (Vlad II) around 1431 due to its value in fighting to the Turks. From 1431 Vlad forwards II it used the emblem of the order and more ahead, like rule of Wallachia, its alesaje of the invention the symbol of the dragoon.

The word for the dragoon in Rumanian is "drac" and the "UL" is the definitive article. The father of Vlad III thus came to be known like "Vlad Dracul", or "Vlad the dragoon". In Rumanian "the ulea" conclusion means "son of". Under this interpretation, Vlad III thus felt or to Vlad Dracula, or "the son of the dragoon". (The word "drac" also means "devil" in Rumanian. Sobriquet acquired therefore a double meaning for the enemies of Vlad Sods and their father).

Historical bottom

To appreciate the history of Vlad III is essential to understand the social and political forces of the region during the fifteenth century. Of general way this one is a history of the fight to obtain the control of Wallachia, a region of the Balkan Mountains (in present Rumania southern) that put directly between the two long-range forces of Hungary and the empire of the Ottoman.


Of almost thousand Constantinople years been in favor it had stopped like the advance post of protection of the Roman empire Byzantine or the east, and access of the Islam blocked to Europe. The Ottomans despite were successful in penetrating deeply in the Balkan Mountains during this time. The fall of Constantinople in 1453 underneath sultán Mohammed the Armed Forces of the Turks of the Ottoman threatened the Conqueror, all the cristiandad suddenly. The Hungarian kingdom to the north and the west of Wallachia, that reached its zenith during this same time, assumed the old layer like defender of the cristiandad.

The rules of Wallachia were thus forced to apacigu

The rules of Wallachia were thus forced to apaciguir these two empires to maintain their survival, often forging alliances with the one or other, depending on what served its own interest in that then. Vlad III is known by Rumanian people for its success in being unemployed until the Turks of usurpation of the Ottoman and to establish relative independence and sovereignty (despite by a relatively brief time).


Another factor that influenced political life was the means of the succession to the throne of Wallachian. The throne was hereditary, but not by the law of primogeniture. Boyars (noble rich landowners) had the right to choose voivode (prince) between of several elegibles members of the real family. This allowed the succession to the throne with violent means. The murders and other violent overthrows of ruling parties were thus wild. In fact, Vlad III and its father assassinated competitors to obtain the throne of Wallachia.