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This book is about Vlad Tepes (pronounced Tee-pish). He is also known as Vlad the Impaler. I know most of you here have heard about Bram Stoker’s book Dracula. But...many people who have read the book are not aware that the character Dracula the vampire is based upon highborn member of a Romanian court, who was much more terrifying than his fictional descendant. That person of course was Vlad. In 1431 a noble women named Cneajna of Moldavia gave birth to a baby boy. He was known as the hero of Romania, but anywhere else he was known as a blood sucking demon, and to us he is known as Vlad the Impaler. Vlad III’s father was a duke. His name was Vlad II. Any other information about Vlad’s father or mother is unknown because they…show more content… He had 2 brothers and his father was the prince of Wallachia at the time. The country of Wallachia was a principality, meaning that it was ruled by a prince, rather than a king.
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At a young age, Vlad was taken captive by the Turks, along with his younger brother Radu the Handsome and they were taken back to Istanbul, and imprisoned by the (click) Sultan, Mehemet because they were valuable.
So then Vlad’s father tried to bargain their release but the bargaining was viewed as treason by (click) John Hunyadi, the King of Hungary so John hired assassins who killed Vlad the Impaler’s father and his oldest brother, Mihnea. Meanwhile in Istanbul, Sultan Mehemet was trying to convert Vlad and Radu into Islam, making allies of them. Radu converted quickly, and was released from prison, however Vlad did not.
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When Vlad finally seemed subdued, the sultan took over Wallachia and made Vlad the new prince of Wallachia. Vlad however did not want to be a puppet ruler, so after a few months, he fled the country, going north into…show more content… And this is what my book quotes about him, “Here begins a very cruel frightening story about a wild bloodthirsty man Prince Dracula. How he impaled people and roasted them and boiled their heads in a kettle and skinned people and hacked them to pieces like cabbage. He also roasted the children of mothers and they had to eat the children themselves. And many other horrible things are written in this tract and in the land he ruled.”(175) His favorite method of torturing was impaling them, and that is where his nickname Vlad the Impaler comes
