Whos vlad tepes family?
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia was a three-time Voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462. It was a “heredity” Dynastic rule situated between the Southern Carpathians and the Danube which eventually became the creation of Romania. Vlad was the second son of Vlad Dracul and Princess Cneajna, daughter of Alexander the Good of Moldavia. Vlad’s family, a branch of the House of Basarab, had been driven from Wallachia by pro-Ottoman boyars and now lived in exile in Transylvania, then part of the Kingdom of Hungary. It was there that Vlad was born, probably in the citadel of Segesvár, Hungary (today located in Romania, named Sighişoara). His Romanian surname Dracula (also spelled “Draculea”, “Drakulya”), which Vlad was referred to in several documents, means “Son of the dragon” and points to his father, Vlad Dracul, who received that moniker from his subjects because he had joined the Order of the Dragon. Dracul, derived from the Latin word Draco meant “dragon”, though in modern Ro
