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* Vlad II Dracul ( 1390 – 1447 ), Prince of Wallachia and Governor of Transylvania
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* 1462 – Vlad III the Impaler attempts to assassinate Mehmed II ( The Night Attack ) forcing him to retreat from Wallachia.
The Pope did, however, influence Vlad III Dracula — whom the Pope held in high regard — in starting a war against Sultan Mehmed II of Turkey.
* Alexandru I Aldea is replaced as ruler of Wallachia by Vlad II Dracul.
* June 17 – Vlad III Dracula attempts to assassinate Mehmed II in The Night Attack, forcing Mehmed to retreat from Wallachia.
* August 20 – Vladislav II, reigning Prince of Wallachia, is killed in battle by Vlad III Dracula, who succeeds him.
* Vlad II Dracul is temporarily replaced as ruler of Wallachia by his son Mircea.
* Vlad II Dracul begins his second term as ruler of Wallachia, succeeding Basarab II.
* December – Vlad II Dracul, ruler of Wallachia, and his eldest son Mircea are assassinated.
* December – Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia
* Vlad III the Impaler becomes reigning Prince of Wallachia for two months before being deposed by Vladislav II.
On October 10 near Nicopolis, some 7, 000 Wallachian cavalrymen under Mircea II, one of Vlad Dracul's sons, also joined.
He was the father to Vlad II Dracul and grandfather of Mircea II, Vlad the Impaler ( Dracula ), Vlad Călugărul and Radu the Handsome.
All of these would at one time or the other rule Wallachia, with Mircea II and Vlad Ţepeş both being able military commanders ( the latter would eventually become one of the most notorious leaders in history, and the inspiration for the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker ).
On his way home, Vlad II Dracul of Wallachia imprisoned Hunyadi ; only the threats of the palatine of Hungary brought the Wallachian ruler, theoretically an ally of Hunyadi against the Ottomans, to release him.
The response was a massive invasion led by Mehmed II who drove Vlad III from the throne and replaced him with his brother, Radu III the Fair ( 1462 – 1475 ).
They were both sons of Vlad II Dracul ( Dracul: the dragon ) and his wife, Princess Cneajna of Moldavia.
In addition to Vlad Ţepeş, Radu also had two older half-brothers, Mircea II and Vlad Călugărul, both of whom would also briefly rule Wallachia.
In 1436, Vlad II Dracul ascended the throne of Wallachia.
Vlad and Dracul
Vlad Dracul, the ruler of Wallachia, the father of the notorious Vlad Dracula, was imprisoned here, as he had fallen into disgrace with Hunyadi, not providing the help promised.
The Wallachian prince Vlad Dracul ( father of Vlad the Impaler ( Dracula ), who lived in exile in the town, let coins to be minted in the city ( otherwise coinage was the monopoly of the Hungarian kings in the Kingdom of Hungary ) and issued the first document listing the city's Romanian name, Sighişoara.
Image: Sigho012. JPG | Plate honouring Vlad Dracul in Sighişoara ( marking the house where Vlad the Impaler was allegedly born )
The boys ' father, Vlad Dracul, with the support of the Ottomans, returned to Wallachia and took back his throne from Basarab II .< ref >
* Vlad II Dracul ( d. 1447 ), then Prince of Wallachia
Vlad II ( c. 1393 – December 1447 ), known as Vlad Dracul (), was a voivode () of Wallachia.
Vlad II received the surname Dracul in 1431, after being inducted into the Order of the Dragon, founded in 1408 by the King Sigismund of Hungary ( the later Holy Roman Emperor ), as part of a design to gain political favor from the Catholic Church and to aid in protecting Wallachia against the Ottoman Empire.
Vlad II Dracul was a member of the House of Drăculeşti lineage, and son of Mircea cel Bătrân, and was known to have murdered members of the rival princely House of Dăneşti, a not-so-distant relation to his own father's House of Basarab, and gained power in Wallachia, upon returning from exile in Transylvania in 1436.
In 1436, following Alexandru I Aldea's death from illness, Vlad Dracul ascended to the throne.
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* Vlad II Dracul ( 1390 – 1447 ), duke of Wallachia, nicknamed " Vlad the Dragon "
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* 1476 – Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
* 1465 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest
* Vlad the Impaler ( 1431 – 1476 ), who was beheaded following his assassination.
One famous ruler in this period was Vlad III the Impaler ( also known as Vlad Dracula or ), Prince of Wallachia in 1448, 1456 – 62, and 1476.
* Vlad III Dracula, Prince of Wallachia who led the defense of his territory against the expanding Ottoman Empire ( 1431 – 1476 ).
* November 26 – Vlad III the Impaler manages to become reigning Prince of Wallachia for the third and last time, before later being killed by the Ottoman Turks at the Battle of Bucharest.
* October 14 – Wallachian voivode Radu cel Frumos, younger brother of Vlad Ţepeş, issues a writ from his residence in Bucharest
* November or December – Vlad III the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia ( d. 1476 )
* September – Vlad Călugărul
* September – Vlad VI Înecatul, Prince of Wallachia
* Georgescu, Vlad ( Author ) – Calinescu, Matei ( Editor ) – Bley-Vroman, Alexandra ( Translator ): The Romanians – A History ; Ohio State University Press, 1991, Columbus ; ISBN 0-8142-0511-9
* Fred Saberhagen's Vlad Tepes series ( 1975 – 2002 ).
* Heavyweight Winner – Vlad The Impaler ( defeating Kill-O-Amp, BioHazard, Rhino and Voltarc )
* Heavyweight Winner – Vlad The Impaler ( defeating GoldDigger, Tazbot, Overkill, Punjar and Voltarc )
Vladislav ( Vlad ) Nikolayevich Listyev () ( May 10, 1956 – March 1, 1995 ) was a Russian journalist and head of the ORT TV Channel ( now government-owned Channel One ).
Although the invading troops were defeated somewhere in a rovină (" ragged marshland ") in Oltenia, the chaos created by the threat of attacks allowed a group of boyars to put Vlad I the Usurper ( 1395 – 1397 ) on the throne.
Two decades later, Vlad III the Impaler ( 1448, 1456 – 1462, 1476 ), notorious as the model for the Dracula legend, turned against the Ottoman Empire.
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