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'''Vlad the Impaler''' was the prince of a part of [[Transylvania]] named "Wallachia" he was nicknamed the impaler because of his preferred method of execution to have criminals thrown on stakes.
== Life ==
== Life ==
Vlad Dracula, Prince (c. 1431-c. 1476), Prince of Wallachia (1448, 1456-1462, and c. 1476), in modern Romania, also known as Prince Vlad III Dracula and Vlad Tepes (“Vlad the Impaler”).
Vlad Dracula, Prince (c. 1431-c. 1476), Prince of [[Wallachia]] (1448, 1456-1462, and c. 1476), in modern Romania, also known as Prince Vlad III Dracula and Vlad Tepes (“Vlad the Impaler”).
Vlad Dracula was born in Sighişoara, in Transylvania, the son of Prince Vlad II Dracul of Wallachia (Dracul means “the dragon”, and Dracula, “son of the dragon”). Wallachia, an independent principality of Romania, was the object of a power struggle between its neighbours, Hungary and the Turks of the Ottoman Empire, and by the mid-15th century had begun to pay tribute to the latter. In 1444, Vlad Dracul sent his two younger sons to Turkey to prove his loyalty to the Ottoman sultan. Vlad Dracula spent the next four years in Adrianople as a hostage.
Vlad Dracula was born in Sighişoara, in Transylvania, the son of Prince Vlad II Dracul of Wallachia (Dracul means “the dragon”, and Dracula, “son of the dragon”). Wallachia, an independent principality of [[Romania]], was the object of a power struggle between its neighbours, [[Hungary]] and the Turks of the [[Ottoman Empire]], and by the mid-15th century had begun to pay tribute to the latter. In 1444, Vlad Dracul sent his two younger sons to Turkey to prove his loyalty to the Ottoman sultan. Vlad Dracula spent the next four years in Adrianople as a hostage.
In 1447, Vlad Dracul was murdered, possibly by the Hungarian general János Hunyadi, who then made a member of his own Danesti clan, Prince Vladislav II, ruler of Wallachia. The following year the Turks gave Vlad an army with which he seized the Wallachian throne. He ruled for only two months before Hunyadi forced him into exile in Moldavia, and Vladislav II returned as prince. However, Vladislav II soon allied Wallachia with the Turks, causing Hunyadi to support Vlad’s return to the throne in 1456.
In 1447, Vlad Dracul was murdered, possibly by the Hungarian general János Hunyadi, who then made a member of his own Danesti clan, Prince Vladislav II, ruler of Wallachia. The following year the Turks gave Vlad an army with which he seized the Wallachian throne. He ruled for only two months before Hunyadi forced him into exile in Moldavia, and Vladislav II returned as prince. However, Vladislav II soon allied Wallachia with the Turks, causing Hunyadi to support Vlad’s return to the throne in 1456.