Since membership of the Order of the Dragon was hereditary, the sons of Vladĭracul, Vlad the Impaler and Radu the Fair, were also to be called by the same name, both at home and abroad.Īnd so it was that later Vlad the Impaler came to be known throughout Europe as Dracula Voivode. And given that "dragon" is similar to the Romanian vernacular term drac (which has the same origin), the people nicknamed Vlad "Dracul" or "Draculea". For this reason, when he became actual ruler of Wallachia in 1437, Vlad, proud of his membership of the Order of the Dragon, ordered that coins bearing the Order's emblem should be struck: the dragon and the Cross. It was a great honour to be a member of the Order. De la Vlad Tepes la Dracula Vampirul, Neagu Djuvara. In the cathedral of the great German city of Nuremberg, King Sigismund proclaimed Vlad Voivode of Wallachia, even though he was yet to reign, and named him a Knight of the Order of the Dragon. Profita de oferta Noriel pentru Carte Editura Humanitas, De la Vlad Tepes la Dracula Vampirul, Neagu Djuvara.
What follows is the extraordinary story behind the cognomen that the son of Vlad Dracul, the famous Vlad the Impaler, was also to bear. Why "Dracul"? Did he earn this nickname because he was evil, "Dracul" being a folk name for the Devil, the Unclean One? Not at all. Le voïvode Vlad III Basarab, surnommé « lEmpaleur » (en roumain epe, prononcé tsepe ), né entre 1429 et 1431 probablement à Târgovite en Valachie (mais, selon la légende moderne, à Sighioara en Transylvanie) et mort en décembre 1476 près de Bucarest, est prince de Valachie en 1448, puis de 1456 à 1462 et en 1476.
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