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Dracul: of the Father - The Untold Story of Vlad II Dracul, Founder of the Dracula Dynasty (Hardcover)
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Dracul: of the Father - The Untold Story of Vlad II Dracul, Founder of the Dracula Dynasty (Hardcover)
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Stories of Dracula have fascinated people around the world for
generations. Both the fictional vampire created by the Irish author
Bram Stoker at the end of the nineteenth century and the fifteenth
century Prince called Vlad the Impaler, the man regarded as the
historical Dracula, have become part of universal culture. Yet few
realize that the Wallachian ruler dubbed "the Impaler," is not the
original Dracula. Instead, that distinction belongs to his father,
a little-known prince called Vlad Dracul. The elder Vlad, who
gained the sobriquet Dracul or Dracula when Holy Roman Emperor
Sigismund of Luxemburg initiated him into the Order of the Dragon
in February 1431, was among the most important political
personalities of his day. He far surpassed his more famous namesake
in those qualities that define a great ruler. Vlad Dracul struggled
to protect the independence of his land, under the most difficult
of circumstances, against the threats posed by his powerful
neighbors, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary. In so
doing, he in no small way contributed to the survival of his
principality at a time when Ottoman expansion in the Balkans
expunged countries such as Bulgaria and Serbia from the map of
Europe. Several books have been devoted to the study of his famous
son, Vlad the Impaler, but any search for the historical Dracula
must begin with the story of the father. Now, for the first time,
based on extensive documentary research, the true story of the man
who founded the Dracula dynasty is revealed.
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