The Ottomans actually called him "Vlad Tepes"("Impaler Prince" or "Lord Impaler") out of respect for him as a fearsome and honorable adversary.
@aspieanarchist5439
11 ай бұрын
"Bram Stoker`s Dracula" came out in 1992. It was the second film after a film starring Jack Palance in the 1970s to actually make Count Dracula and Vlad the Impaler the same person whereas the Novel only vaguely implied the vampire was once Vlad in Van Helsing`s notes "He must have indeed been that Voivode Dracula who fought off the Ottoman Turks" and never mentions the subject again. Also, Vlad`s an ethnic Vlach(An Ancient Romanian of Bulgarian, East Roman and Thracian/Dacian descent) , the Count`s an ethnic Szekler(A Hungarian or Romanian of Romani descent).Vlad regarded Hungarians as two-faced usurers and Romani as "Pagan infidels and thieves" although there were a few Szeklers in his army he was even more harsh towards them than his other troops.
@bybshenanigans
11 ай бұрын
Wow. So much information! Thank you
@thieph
5 ай бұрын
Bulgarian? What has anything to do with bulgarians? He was romanian with possible cuman ancestry connection(speculative), nothing else.
@aspieanarchist5439
11 ай бұрын
In ancient Wallachian, Draculea means "Son of the Dragon" as his father(Also named Vlad) was called "Dracul" after the Ordo Dracul("Order of the Dragon" in English)joined an order of knights who sought to keep Eastern Europe Christian and free of Ottoman rule by any means necessary.(And in medieval times, that usually meant holy war.)After Vlad`s death, the meaning was changed to "Son of the Devil" by his political enemies the Ottomans and Boyars who now had control of Romania and Transylvania relatively uncontested until World War 1 when internal issues and international sanctions for the Armenian Genocide led to a revolution in Turkey which ended up in the overthrow of the Ottoman Empire and the foundation of a secular government in Turkey which is still in place to this day(The Muslims and Orthodox Christians from Armenia, Bulgaria, Greece, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and Romania remain prominent and politically influential religious forces however). Which is what motivated Bram Stoker to change the name of his vampire from Count Wampyr to Count Dracula, he was vaguely aware of Vlad and the political and religiously-motivated infighting between Romanians, Turks, Austrians and Hungarians for control of the region but he was likely more influenced by the vampire tales from his native Ireland than the foreign variants when it came to filling in the details of his lore.
@bybshenanigans
11 ай бұрын
I didn't know that's what it meant and how it was changed after his death.
@aspieanarchist5439
11 ай бұрын
@@bybshenanigans Yep and King Charles is openly a distant descendant of Vlad through Vlad`s descendants intermarrying with Hungarian Anglo-Saxon princesses who eventually gave rise to the House of Windsor around the time of the Russian Revolution.
@aspieanarchist5439
11 ай бұрын
@@bybshenanigans There`s also a legend that Welsh people are descendants of Vlad as well hence the dragon on the Welsh flag. Which also makes it interesting that three of the most acclaimed actors to play either Vlad or a descendant of the same name: Luke Evans(Dracula Untold in which he plays a version of the Real Life Vlad who becomes the vampire of the same name to reunite with Mina who is the reincarnation of his historical wife as in the Francis Ford Coppola film and the Hellsing Manga and Anime), Paul Rhys(Who plays Vlad in " Da Vinci`s Demons" who is meant to be the real one but is depicted as invulnerable like his vampiric counterpart, in real life Vlad was very much mortal, he could just take a lot of damage due to having been a prisoner of war and speculated molestation victim from a young age, yeah the Wallachians didn`t just hate the Turks because of their brown skin and different religion, the Ottomans weren`t nice to anybody they conquered) and Gerran Howell(Vladimir from "Young Dracula" who is the half-vampire son of a Count Dracula who was once Vlad), are Welsh.
@aspieanarchist5439
11 ай бұрын
Vlad was born in Sighisoara, Transylvania but he ruled Wallachia in the Austro-Hungarian Empire alongside John Hunyadi and Matthias Corvinus, the king of Hungary(He was "the jailer" Vlad mentioned, he also made Vlad marry his daughter and convert to Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy to get out of jail which Vlad agreed to as he didn`t have a choice at that point because all the other royals in both Eastern Europe and Turkey hated his guts, even his own relatives!) at the time and was actually a direct descendant of the third branch of the Romanian and Moldavian royal family the Basarabs, however many including Vlad regarded the Basarabs as sell-outs to the Austro-Hungarians and Ottomans whom they saw as the enemy so two branches of the royal family disowned the original branch as traitors which is why Vlad went by Vlad III or Vlad Draculea("Wladislaws Draclwea" in the original Wallachian) in memory of his father whom the Turks and Boyars hanged as a war criminal despite him cooperating with them by offering his sons as Jannisaries(Christian slaves and child soldiers for the Ottomans)to Sultan Murad II who was rumored to have done more to Vlad and Radu than make them fight for him and teach them languages including Turkish,Latin,Arabic and Bulgarian in addition to their native Wallachian and I`ll leave that topic there.
@bybshenanigans
11 ай бұрын
So much information! So I was somewhat correct when I said he was imprisoned. I didn't know he converted and his ancestors, as well as his last name.
@aspieanarchist5439
11 ай бұрын
Vlad`s birthname was Vlad III(Eastern European monarchs and medieval folks in general weren`t very creative with names so they kept reusing a lot of common names in their regions over and over which many of them still do in modernized form to this day even whilst superficially having a bourgeois democracy like us Westerners, they have no separation of Church and State, no Constitution and their laws particularly in wartime border on outright tyranny and most of the people don`t like it but they`re numb to it as it is all they know!), he was born the third Vlad in the third branch of the founding royal family of Wallachia(Modern-day Southern Romania and parts of Moldova, Serbia, Bulgaria and Ukraine). His mother was a Moldavian princess of Bulgarian descent(They also had some Greek blood as the Dacians were descended from Spartacus and his men through the Thracians) and she died in childbirth giving birth to Vlad`s baby brother Radu(Which was only the first of many reasons Vlad would come to hate Radu) of the plague which was not uncommon back then. He wasn`t actually a blooddrinker(That was a rumor spread by his enemies, the Turks and Boyars) but he was an extremely strict ruler even by the standards of 15th century Eastern Europe. Witches were burned at the stake, thieves had their arms cut off, adultresses had their lady parts mutilated, heretics were silenced and executed and well you don`t even wanna know what he did to traitors. Impalement was Vlad`s favorite method of execution but the dude was extremely creative with his sadism.(Whilst old ladies were passing out reading Dante, Vlad was taking notes).
@bybshenanigans
11 ай бұрын
I've heard about Spartacus and Thracians. Yeah, the blood drinking thing ...I kinda thought that was just a rumor.
@aspieanarchist5439
11 ай бұрын
@@bybshenanigans More than that, it was one of the earliest examples of wartime propaganda by the Boyars who were Saxon merchants in Transylvania and Prussia(Modern-day Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and parts of Northern Italy and Spain) who played both sides of the war between the Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian Empires(Which, as you can imagine considering his paranoid obsession with the slightest hint of betrayal, Vlad did not take kindly to especially since they stood by as Murad hanged his father and older brother Mircea ironically as traitors and enemies of state to the Ottoman Empire whom the Wallachians and Transylvanians were subjects of at the time), coinciding perfectly with the invention of the printing press as it happens.
@aspieanarchist5439
11 ай бұрын
In fact, one of Vlad`s favorite sayings was "Christ may forgive Judas, I do not."If that doesn`t give you an idea how seriously the dude took loyalty and betrayal, I don`t know what will. To be fair, there was a fuckload of doubledealing back then and many Wallachian peasants shared Vlad`s exasperation towards that and followed him as a result but ya, even his own followers feared the shit out of him!
@egsie
10 ай бұрын
If they say it, it might be true
@mocha3428
11 ай бұрын
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