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In 1461 the Turks asked him to break his marriage (his wife was the family of King Matei Corvin of Hungary) and abandon the alliance with the Kingdom of Hungary by sending commanders of the Turkish army to kill the prince.

Vlad Tepes refuses to break the alliance and it responds, given its very brave, it captures the Turkish commanders and is impaled.

NB (it is described by his contemporaries as bloody) but we must not forget that they are common practice in Europe of that time! pal of the torture, the wheel, the quartering, and the stake in public.

In 1461 Vlad Tepes continues its raids against the Turkish armies in the south of the Danube and conquered the territory of Dobrogea, which relates to Wallachia.

Its military efforts provide a protective wall for the whole of Central Europe against the Ottoman threat, but the alliance of the Christian era were fragile and the prince was also forced to struggle against his own brother for the throne of Wallachia.

In 1462 the prince was arrested and imprisoned by his beautiful sister. In 1475 he was released by Prince Matei Corvin and he began to build a house in the city of Brasov.

He is trying, through diplomacy and his tallent to strategize alliances always trying to create a common front against anti-Christian Ottoman peril.

It was in 1476 that Vlad Tepes rising for the last time on the throne of Wallachia, following his participation in the fight against the Turks.

On 26 November 1476 Vad Tepes was elected prince of Wallachia by the assembly "of the country, he made an alliance with Stephen the Great, Prince of Moldavia, but he was assassinated by a conspiracy led by the Turks in December 1476 (or January 1477).

Its cruel and bloody character, as reflected by his nickname, was in fact the expression of the practices of the time when he was defending the national territory and defend Christianity against the Ottoman threat.

Here is the true story ..... you are disappointed, but there are still 300 years between one (voivod) Voivode in Wallachia in 1437 and a novel written from an Irishman in 1897 !!!!!!

Dracula

The literary character Dracula was created by Irish writer Bram Stocker in 1897 and uses the prince Vlad Tepes as a prototype. The book was a great success (and the films that inspired them) created a new legend that is rather a subsequent creation, influenced by Irish myths and Hungarian influences.

Say that the legend of Dracula is a compositum Mixtum "as the Latin saying between a historical figure and the effect of the imagination. The name "Dracula" comes from the name of Prince Vlad Dracul, the father of Vlad Tepes and the Irish writer characterizes as "the most skilful, the most wicked and the most valiant son of the country beyond the forest .

Many towns and cities of Romania retain the footsteps of Prince Vlad Tepes:

Thus Bucharest, the current capital of the country experienced its first documentary in an official paper from the period of his reign (1459).

Targoviste, former capital of Wallachia, his dungeon, was the capital during his reign.

The medieval citadel of Sighisoara keeps the house of his father, Vlad Dracul.

The city of POIENAR is located on the river Arges and was rebuilt during the reign of Vlad Tepes. Here, probably the real "Castle of the Carpathians".
 

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