Vlad III the Impaler

Vlad the Impaler was a Transylvanian prince who killed his war prisoners by impaling them on stakes, a very slow and painful way to die. Some historians say that he dined among the pikes and bodies and some have gone so far as to say that he drank their blood. He was also the real-life model for Bram Stoker's legendary vampire character, Dracula. His full name was Vlad III Dracula, Drakulya, or Tepes, depending on who you ask.

the previous answer was completely incorrect. Vlad did in fact use swords in direct combat, im a bit foggy as to what the name of the sword is but it looks like a variation of the spartan sword mixed with a sabre. the deep curve of the blade caused great cutting potential especially since all of the weight is at the top of the blade. vlad only impailed people after the battle was over because impailing would take up too much time on the battlefeild.

Yes he is very distantly related to vlad. So is Stephenie Meyer

Vlad Tepes's second wife was Ilona Szilágyi. She was a Hungarian noblewoman. it was said Vlad merely married her to escape imprisonment and to gain Hungarian ally support. The two lived together after Vlad release in in 1474, in a house in the Hungarian capital. She gave him two sons. Vlad Dracula the IV and another son, who fell ill and died early in life.

Yes, he is one of our most famous princes. He ruled over one of the countries forming present-day Romania (Wallachia or Muntenia) during the mid-15th century. After his first reign he was forced into exile, he returned to the throne and he was once again betrayed and murdered. He was a fierce enemy of the Ottomans and YES, he did impale those he sentenced to death, hence his nickname.

Vlad the Impaler died on the battlefield against the Ottomans. Then, They decapitated his corspe and preserved his head in honey to send it to Constantinople. The Sultan had it displayed on a stake to prove he was dead.

Vlad the impaler, who famously served as the inspiration for Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel, was assassinated shortly after declaring his third reign. While the exact cause or location of his death remain unknown, he is most widely believed to have died in December of 1476, somewhere between Bucharest and Giurgiu.

Yes, - though none were really in power for long before being over thrown

1st marriage:

Mihnea cel Rău

Katerine Nichol Tepes

2nd marriage:

Vlad Dracula the IV and another son whose name remains unknown, possibly died soon after birth

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Vlad Drăculea's preferred method of torture was impalement, where you are simply left to slide down a greasy stake. As the stake gets into your body, it slowly rips everything in its path, and you are left to die.

His other methods of torture included;

-Smashing of the head

-Boiling alive

-Burying alive

-Left to die in a pit

He did this all in underground torture chambers in both of his two castles, located in what was Wallachia, now is Transylvania, a province in Romania.

But that there are also many legends, so that no one can say what really happened and what was invented.

Vlad the Impaler is from a country called Wallachia, part of present day Romainia.

"Vlad the Impaler III, Dracula" was a warrior and reputed to have been a just, though a very harsh, ruler. His victories over the invading Ottomans were celebrated throughout Wallachia, Transylvania and the rest of Europe as well as Pope Pius II. By the time he came to power, he was set on revenge because of the atrocities done to his father, grandfather and family. If a visitor did not pay homage of courtesy to him by removing their hat, he nailed the hat to their head. He impaled prisoners, mostly the nobility to whom once the Dracul family had been kind and now wronged his family. He also tortured his prisoners, the same Turks who had murdered his father. His main way to torture his enemies was by impaling them on a stake, using their posterior half way up through the victim's body, standing him up and letting gravity pull the body down the stake. He then set up the impaled body of his enemies in his courtyard. Some say, he dined there, dipping his bread in the blood and eating it. DRACULA, inspired Bram Stoker who used the name, his bloodline; however, read his history and you'll know who the man he really was before he became known as "Vlad the Impaler."

"Count Dracula" was from Transylvania.

The name comes from Vlad the Impaler, prince of Wallachia (now part of Romania). In modern Romanian, it means "son of the devil" but in Vlad's time it meant "son of the dragon." Vlad is something of a national hero in Romania for preventing the expansion of the Ottoman Empire but he was (and is) notorious for the cruelty of the punishments he meted out -- his favorite method being impalement.

Bram Stoker borrowed the name for his famous vampire novel, "Dracula," but there is no evidence that the historic Dracula ever drank blood. Stoker toured Romania while gathering material for his novel and heard of Vlad in his travels. However, he demoted his character to the rank of count. The real-life Dracula was a prince.

He was born in Sighisoara, Transylvania. In 1444, at the age of thirteen, young Vlad and his brother Radu were sent to Adrianople as hostages, to appease the Sultan. He remained there until 1448, at which time he was released by the Turks, who supported him as their candidate for the Wallachian throne.

Mircea (older) and Radu (younger). He "may" have had a half-brother, also named Vlad but this is not absolutely certain.

Vlad the Impalor got his name from the fact that he would impale his enemies on large spikes through the anus if it was a male, or if an adulterous women, through the vagina. He committed other cruel and violent acts, but he is most famous for his impalement's, he killed a grand total of about 40, 000 people in his life time. Most of these people were impaled.

Dracula is only a German middle age legend. Vlad Ţepeş (or Vlad III) was the domnitor (equivalent to king) of Walachia (or Muntenia, or Ţara Românească). Born in 1431, assassinated in 1476.

The most famous character who was inspired by the real life Vlad Tepes was of course Dracula. Funny enough, Vlad tepes was also known as Vlad Draculea - translated as son of the dragon, or devil. Bram storker was the man who created the FICTIONAL character Dracula. Remember, Just because the character was based on the actual man, doesn't make everything about the character true.

Nothing. The vampire rumours didn't start until Abraham Stoker made references between vampires and 'somebody that could be Vlad' in the book Dracula. Long after the original Vlad was dead.

Rumour has it that the Germans settlers in Transylvania (his opponents) were those who launched a smear campaign against the Wallah (now-Romanian) Prince. The rumours were helped by the cruel form of capital punishment chosen by Vlad.

Vlad III (1431-1476) was a Prince of Wallachia (now Romania), known as Vlad the Impaler (Vlad Tepes), aka Vlad Dracula. He was the son of Vlad II Dracul, a duke of Wallachia. The father's name indicated he was a member of the Order of the Dragon (Dracul). The father left Vlad and his younger brother as favored prisoners of the Turks, who educated them. But when Vlad assumed his father's dukedom, he engaged in cruel and sadistic practices such as impaling his enemies or burning children alive. This bloodthirsty reputation led to the adoption of his name for Bram Stoker's Transylvanian vampire character, Count Dracula.

He converted to Roman Catholicism.

Val the impaler was a man who killed people and stuck a pole up them and drained the blood then he drank it. Some say that val the impaler is were dracula came from,