VLAD THE IMPALER BIOGRAPHY! VLAD THE IMPALER, "DRACULA", was the Evil 15th Century Prince of Wallachia, who brutally IMPALED his Victims with a Sharpened STAKE, killed over 100,000 people and was the Inspiration for Bram Stoker's "DRACULA"!

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VLAD THE IMPALER BIOGRAPHY
1431-1476 (or 1477)
VLAD THE IMPALER, "DRACULA", was the Evil 15th Century Prince of Wallachia, who brutally IMPALED his Victims with a Sharpened STAKE, killed over 100,000 people and was the Inspiration for Bram Stoker's "DRACULA"!

VLAD THE IMPALER (VLAD III) was born in 1431 in Sighisoara, Transylvania (Romania). Vlad's father was a member of the "Order of the Dragon", a brotherhood who fought the Ottoman Empire (the Turks). Vlad's father was known as "Dracul" (which means the "Dragon") and Vlad then became known as the son of the dragon: "Dracula". Vlad's father became the Prince of Wallachia (Romania) and made an alliance with the Turks, which called for his son to be imprisoned, to prove his loyalty to the Turks.

In 1447, the boyars (high-ranking Bulgarians and Wallachians) and the Hungarian military leader John Hunyadi rebelled against Vlad's father and killed him. Vlad then tried to assume the throne of his father. He was unable to do so until 1456. At that point, Vlad Dracula finally assumed power and became the Prince of Wallachia and set out to avenge the death of his father. In 1459, Vlad began his reign of terror and started getting revenge. He began by arresting the boyar's families, who he thought were responsible for killing his father. He impaled the older members of the families. The other members were forced to build Vlad's outpost overlooking the Arges River for him. This became known as the famous "Castle Dracula".

Vlad Dracula became known as "The Impaler" from his brutal impaling with a sharpened stake. His victim's slow and painful death was especially cruel. He attacked an entire village in Bulgaria. He was constantly attacking the Turks and became known for his brutal resistance against the Ottoman Empire. He also terrorized churches, foreign merchants and imposed strict moral codes of sexuality. If one person defied his rules, an entire village could be executed. Any foreign enemies who did not follow Vlad's trade laws were viciously impaled. The town of Brasov, Romania was burned by Vlad, who impaled the townspeople and ate his meals among their impaled bodies.

By 1461, Vlad began losing his power by spending too much money on wars and depleting his army of mercenaries (who he wasn't able to pay). The Turks had begun to fight back and forced Vlad to flee his castle. Vlad was arrested and imprisoned in Hungary. but by 1474, Vlad once again became the best choice to become the Prince, which he accomplished by 1475. But many of his subjects went against him and joined the Turks. Vlad was assassinated at the end of December 1476 (or beginning of January 1477).

Vlad was a brutal tyrant, who perfected the art of torture and death by impaling his victims. He would actually dismember people and force feed their parts to others. The astounding amount of victims that Vlad The Impaler killed allegedly came to over 100,000. The life of Vlad The Impaler was the inspiration for Bram Stoker's famous novel "DRACULA".




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