- VLAD TEPES -
The Boyar Voivode and the Boyars of Romania
Vlad Dracul "Dracula" Tepes, Reign 1431–1476.
Vlad "Dracula" Tepes
The warlord that usurped the ancient Boyar princes of Romania
and stole the elected Boyar princes throne that was just about to be crowned
to Tczar/Voivod by his own Boyar kins/clan/family.
The warlord that usurped the ancient Boyar princes of Romania
and stole the elected Boyar princes throne that was just about to be crowned
to Tczar/Voivod by his own Boyar kins/clan/family.
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431–1476), was a member of the House of Drăculești, a branch of the House of Basarab, also known by his patronymic name: Dracula. He was posthumously dubbed Vlad the Impaler (Romanian: Vlad Țepeș pronounced [ˈvlad ˈt͡sepeʃ]), and was a three-time Voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462
ABOUT VLAD TEPES
"The Boyars did not choose this king. He, Vlad Tepes came from elsewhere and usurped the Boyars and stole the throne from the Boyar 's and create chaos and he was routhless and the Boyars thought he was crazy nutter potter and wanted to get rid of him, wanted to see him dead because he stole their own kings throne and destroyed the Boyars own Traderoutes. (Know the Boyars was not just ancient warriors decents from the first trade and kingstown of Sweden named Birka in Mälaren, The name Birka comes from the name Birk and was gouvernd during 1100 by King Magnus Eriksson"Magnus Ladulås" of Sweden from Alsnö House at Adelsö Holmgård wich was just was an island away that laid just beside Birka. When u stand at the mount where Alsnö hus ruins is today u can see over to Birka from there. It was here the first laws about gentiles/Nobles also was created 1200 by Birger Jarl Verses the commoners rights. Known today in swedish as the Alsnö Stadgar in swedish or Ordinance of Alsnö in english.) These ancient warrior Vikings named Boyars they was also traders to as all vikings always been. And Vlad was an headache for them, he interfeare both with stealing their own Birk/Boyar kings throne and interfeard with their trades. They wanted to kill him and eventually they did after he had even attacked their own Boyar warriors to much wich he also eighter used for his crazy battles or killed em when they did not comply to his will.
Eventually The Boyars plotted like hell to get rid of the imposture/unsurper that stolen their kings throne.
Eventually The Boyars plotted like hell to get rid of the imposture/unsurper that stolen their kings throne.
"One of the crazy nutters that gotten breeded into the tree of my ancestors and had some perverted ideas how to treat ppl. The way he impaled ppl tells us the story about his perverted ways.
He impaled them trough their anal up their neck and let them hang their for days in their pains.
They all did not die emidiatly. An person i rather wanna forget as an related ancestor in my tree but the story that tells about the Boyars of Romania and the reign of the usurper Vlad is very interesting."
VLAD KILLED MANY PEOPLE,
Even the Noble Boyars
VLAD EATING WHILST PEOPLE GETS IMPALED ON THE HILL AND HE WATCH
"A German story about Brasov, a real massacre, says that Vlad the Impaler was sitting at a table filled with food and drink. In front of him, on a hill, some of his soldiers began to impale a number of the Saxon traders simply because of his dislike for them and their connection with the Boyars, and because of their attempts to remove him from the throne of Vallachia."
"Another story, described the impaled bodies looking like a forest.
Many German stories of that time, indicated that Vlad the Impaler caused many people to suffer. There are manuscripts dating from 1462 telling of impaling as was his way of serving justice as he saw it."
"A German story about Brasov, a real massacre, says that Vlad the Impaler was sitting at a table filled with food and drink. In front of him, on a hill, some of his soldiers began to impale a number of the Saxon traders simply because of his dislike for them and their connection with the Boyars, and because of their attempts to remove him from the throne of Vallachia."
"Another story, described the impaled bodies looking like a forest.
Many German stories of that time, indicated that Vlad the Impaler caused many people to suffer. There are manuscripts dating from 1462 telling of impaling as was his way of serving justice as he saw it."
The impaling of the pesants, handicapped and Boyar nobles and all that did not bid his will by Vlad Tepes during his Wallachia Reign (1431–1476).
"The massacre of the Boyars History condemned him for killing many (about 500) of the nobility who did not like or agree with him. The poet Michael Beheim, wrote about the impaling of the 500 nobles. The book "Povestirile Slavone" tells how Vlad the Impaler (Dracul/Dracula) impaled anyone who was found guilty and not obeyed his will, nobles, soldiers and priests - no exceptions. The same book indicates he was trying to eliminate from society, people in poverty. He announced to all, the blind, handicapped, elderly, poor, etc., an invitation to a party (similar to a charity dinner) in a special house. All of the people invited, entered the house, ate and drank. Afterwards Vlad the Impaler asked them if they wanted to cease to be a burden to their loved ones and end their poverty. All the people present agreed. When he heard that, he ordered the house to be set on fire and all the people were killed burned inside alive."
VLAD'S LARGEST CONQUEST IN LIFE
He forced the Boyars to work for him under him and in pure bloodthirsty brutality to get his ways to qonquer the gentiles lands and destroy their trade routes
(know the Boyars was ancient people and has history as old vikingwarriors and settlers that moved from land to land and created kingdoms and qonquerd lands and still during this time they as their vikingancestors always done held hard in their traderoutes and traded as they always done since beginning of times before and during the vikingage)...
But Vlad did interfear in their businesses and that made him to not last long against these nobles.
The Boyars went really angry over that he had stomach to usurp them and then even more that he had the stomach to force them as royal nobles to work for him against their own will and destoy their trades and tarderoutes.
Eventually they plotted against Vlad and revenged and killed him...
Vlad sealed his own fate by becoming an warlord and go against an very ancient tribe of noble people, the Boyars with an very ancient feudual system where they elected their own cheiftain known as emperor/tczar/kahn/King from their own kins of clan/tribe which has been since dawn of time custom and rule for the rulership for these gentile i.e. noble people.
These people had always held hard on their own old customs.
After Vlad the usurping warlord was out of the picture the Boyars eventually gotten back their own lands and could crown their own cheiftain again..
(know the Boyars was ancient people and has history as old vikingwarriors and settlers that moved from land to land and created kingdoms and qonquerd lands and still during this time they as their vikingancestors always done held hard in their traderoutes and traded as they always done since beginning of times before and during the vikingage)...
But Vlad did interfear in their businesses and that made him to not last long against these nobles.
The Boyars went really angry over that he had stomach to usurp them and then even more that he had the stomach to force them as royal nobles to work for him against their own will and destoy their trades and tarderoutes.
Eventually they plotted against Vlad and revenged and killed him...
Vlad sealed his own fate by becoming an warlord and go against an very ancient tribe of noble people, the Boyars with an very ancient feudual system where they elected their own cheiftain known as emperor/tczar/kahn/King from their own kins of clan/tribe which has been since dawn of time custom and rule for the rulership for these gentile i.e. noble people.
These people had always held hard on their own old customs.
After Vlad the usurping warlord was out of the picture the Boyars eventually gotten back their own lands and could crown their own cheiftain again..
VLAD'S REVENGE
His first major act of revenge was aimed at the boyars of Tirgoviste for not being loyal to his father.
On Easter Sunday he invited all the boyar families who had participated at the princely feast. He asked them how many princes had ruled in their lifetimes. They said they had lived through many reigns. Shouting that this was their fault because of their plotting, Vlad the Impaler had them all arrested on the spot. He impaled the older ones on stakes while forcing the others to march from the capital to the town of Poenari. This fifty-mile trek was quite grueling and no one was permitted to rest until they reached destination. Vlad the Impaler then ordered the boyars to build him a fortress on the ruins of an older outpost overlooking the Arges River. Many died in the process, and therefore Vlad the Impaler succeeded in creating a new nobility and obtaining a fortress for future emergencies.
What is left today of the building is identified as Poenari Fortress (Cetatea Poenari).
His first major act of revenge was aimed at the boyars of Tirgoviste for not being loyal to his father.
On Easter Sunday he invited all the boyar families who had participated at the princely feast. He asked them how many princes had ruled in their lifetimes. They said they had lived through many reigns. Shouting that this was their fault because of their plotting, Vlad the Impaler had them all arrested on the spot. He impaled the older ones on stakes while forcing the others to march from the capital to the town of Poenari. This fifty-mile trek was quite grueling and no one was permitted to rest until they reached destination. Vlad the Impaler then ordered the boyars to build him a fortress on the ruins of an older outpost overlooking the Arges River. Many died in the process, and therefore Vlad the Impaler succeeded in creating a new nobility and obtaining a fortress for future emergencies.
What is left today of the building is identified as Poenari Fortress (Cetatea Poenari).
VLAD AND THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
Vlad Dracul's various games of pretense in dealing with Hungary and the Turks reached a breaking point in 1445 when his son, Mircea II, attacked the Ottoman-held fortified city of Giurgiu on the strategically located banks of the Danube River in southern Wallachia. In Dracul's imprudent concept of diplomacy, he could use the assault to indulge the Holy Roman Empire while simultaneously claiming to the Turks that Mircea had essentially gone rogue and was out of his control.
The duplicity backfired, and Dracul was quickly compelled to return Giugiu to Ottoman control and reaffirm his treaties with the Turks to avoid an all-out confrontation. The outcome proved to be a diplomatic success with the Ottoman Empire and a tactical disaster with Hungary.
The Fall of Dracul Janos Hunyadi, the sworn enemy of the Ottoman Turks, was elected as regent of Hungary in 1446, giving him full authority to conduct military campaigns at will. This was a troubled time for the Hungarian Empire, with the Ottoman Turks looming from the south and east, German threats from the west, and political enmity within the nobility of Hungary. Despite this turmoil, Hunyadi launched a punitive assault on Wallachia in 1447, defeating the forces of Vlad Dracul and Mircea II and driving Dracul into hiding.
In Romanian history, it's said that Mircea was captured by members of the Wallachian nobility, or boyars, near the capital of Targoviste (sometimes spelled Tirgoviste) who'd fostered pro-Hungarian sentiments and tired of Dracul's regime of flip-flopping his loyalties with the Turks and the Christian world. The boyars blinded Mircea with the tip of a red hot poker and buried him alive.
Vlad Dracul himself was hunted down and killed near the Romanian city of Balteni, leaving the throne open to another of Janos Hunyadi's personal choices as regent of Wallachia — Vladislav II — who was considered unrelentingly loyal to the authority of Hungary.
In 1448, Janos Hunyadi's armies, with the aid of Vladislav II, launched an attack against the Turkish stranglehold on the strategically vital Danube River near Kosovo. The ensuing battle was a disaster for the Christian armies and resulted in the flight of both Vladislav and Hunyadi. En route home, Hunyadi was taken prisoner by Serbian ruler George Brankovic, who had no love for Hunyadi's authority and whose Hungarian principality of Serbia had been estranged from Hungarian rule. Hunyadi was forced to barter for his release by arranging marriage between his son, Matthias Corvinus, and Brankovic's daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Cilli, in a matchup of purely political purposes.
Moldavian Exile Janos Hunyadi's imprisonment and Vladislav's military trouncing presented Vlad Dracula with the opportunity to finally own what he felt was his birthright — the crown of Wallachia. With the aid of the Ottoman Turks, Vlad Dracula assumed the throne. His exceptionally short-lived reign lasted just one month.
Backed by neighboring feudal warlords, Vladislav II of Wallachia took back Wallachia and drove the frustrated Dracula once again into the relative safety of the Turks. From there, and later with his uncle Bogdan in Moldavia, Dracula plotted his return to power for eight years.
During this time, a most surprising relationship developed between Dracula and the mastermind of his father's overthrow and death; Janos Hunyadi himself. When Bogdan was assassinated by a rival in 1451, Dracula was forced to flee once again — this time to Hungary and into the hands of Hunyadi.
The term boyar describes the landholding gentry of eastern Europe, who were considered nobility by birthright and were the ruling class of most countries and principalities. By custom, the boyarsnormally elected their own monarchs with selections from specific ruling families, orhouses. Boyars ruled their own land with relative autonomy but were expected to show loyalty to their rulers and set aside common disputes and power struggles in defense of the kingdom.
The Doorway to PowerThe unlikely combination of Vlad Dracula's guile and Hunyadi's political savvy soon proved advantageous to both men. After years of captivity, training, and failed indoctrination with the Turks, Dracula knew the mind-set and inner workings of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire, which made him an invaluable resource to Hunyadi. No doubt, Dracula's hatred of Turks was instrumental in the arrangement, and Dracula became one of Hunyadi's most trusted advisors.
Much to Dracula's benefit, tensions began developing between Hunyadi and Wallachia's Vladislav II. New threats from the Ottoman Turks forced Hunyadi to the defense of the city known today as Belgrade in Serbia, and Dracula was entrusted with his own troops to protect the borders of Wallachia.
The battle for Belgrade in early 1456 was a convincing victory for Hunyadi and his forces, but just three weeks after the Turks relinquished their ground and retired from the war, Hunyadi's own life was taken, not by battle, but by plague. With the flight of the Turks and Hungarian power in flux after Hunyadi's passing, the doorway to Wallachia was now wide open for Vlad Dracula.
Impalement was a hideous form of torture and execution, and it became Vlad Dracula's hallmark death sentence. A sharpened stake was forced through a victim's body, often with the use of ropes and horses, and then mounted into the earth vertically with the body dangling from above. Although the shock of such horrific abuse was enough to kill almost instantly, Dracula's minions took great care to perfect the “art” of impaling in order to prolong the agony as long as possible — sometimes for days.
Sticking It to the MassesDracula invaded Wallachia the same year Hunyadi died and subsequently overran the defenses of Vladislav's forces. It's said that Dracula himself dispatched Vladislav in hand-to-hand combat and took his head to ensure a permanent ending to Vladislav's reign. Dracula's primary objective for gaining absolute control of the throne was to undermine the power of the boyars, for whom he had little use and who'd been so instrumental in the deaths of his father and brother.
During the Easter festival in 1457, Dracula called the boyars of Targoviste to assemble for a grand feast. Dracula questioned each of the noblemen, asking how many princes of Wallachia they had known during their lives. According to the German minstrel, Michel Beheim, who wrote the poem Story of a Bloodthirsty Madman Called Dracula of Wallachia, the oldest boyars thought there had been at least 30 princes, some thought 20, and the youngest responded with seven. Dracula's response to their answers was decisive:
“How do you explain the fact that you have had so many princes in your land? The guilt is entirely due to your shameful intrigues.”
Legend has it that Dracula then seized 500 of the boyars and had them impaled. Although the number is undoubtedly exaggerated, there's little doubt that the oldest were executed in sufficient numbers to gain Dracula's reputation and the permanent appellation, Vlad Tepes, which translates into English as the unmistakable “Vlad the Impaler.”
In an interesting twist of historical character use in cinema, the name of Hungary's Matthias Corvinus was partially appropriated for the vampire filmsUnderworld and Underworld: Evolution, in which the male protagonist, Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman), was imbued with a genetic immunity to an undisclosed plague. Corvin's fifth-century ancestor, Alexander Corvinus (Derek Jacobi), developed the immunity after his village was wiped out and was described as a Hungarian warlord who was effectively the first true immortal.
Vlad Dracula replaced the boyars he disposed of with personal choices from the lower classes in a clever and efficient effort to ensure loyalty. For these recently endowed boyars, any attempt to replace their new monarch with another ruler would undoubtedly mean that their questionably gained powers would be stripped away by the established nobility.
Dracula's intense suspicion of the boyars of Wallachia was well-founded, and he used every means at his disposal to keep the pack at bay. He altered the makeup of his royal court to eliminate the older and more hostile boyars and replaced them with boyars of his own choosing. The established boyars were also economically tied to merchants of German origin in Transylvania. Dracula dealt a financial blow to the boyar aristocracy by establishing trade sanctions against the merchants and regularly raided key trade communities. He was an pure terrorist when it came to ruin the ancient Boyar viking traderoutes.
The duplicity backfired, and Dracul was quickly compelled to return Giugiu to Ottoman control and reaffirm his treaties with the Turks to avoid an all-out confrontation. The outcome proved to be a diplomatic success with the Ottoman Empire and a tactical disaster with Hungary.
The Fall of Dracul Janos Hunyadi, the sworn enemy of the Ottoman Turks, was elected as regent of Hungary in 1446, giving him full authority to conduct military campaigns at will. This was a troubled time for the Hungarian Empire, with the Ottoman Turks looming from the south and east, German threats from the west, and political enmity within the nobility of Hungary. Despite this turmoil, Hunyadi launched a punitive assault on Wallachia in 1447, defeating the forces of Vlad Dracul and Mircea II and driving Dracul into hiding.
In Romanian history, it's said that Mircea was captured by members of the Wallachian nobility, or boyars, near the capital of Targoviste (sometimes spelled Tirgoviste) who'd fostered pro-Hungarian sentiments and tired of Dracul's regime of flip-flopping his loyalties with the Turks and the Christian world. The boyars blinded Mircea with the tip of a red hot poker and buried him alive.
Vlad Dracul himself was hunted down and killed near the Romanian city of Balteni, leaving the throne open to another of Janos Hunyadi's personal choices as regent of Wallachia — Vladislav II — who was considered unrelentingly loyal to the authority of Hungary.
In 1448, Janos Hunyadi's armies, with the aid of Vladislav II, launched an attack against the Turkish stranglehold on the strategically vital Danube River near Kosovo. The ensuing battle was a disaster for the Christian armies and resulted in the flight of both Vladislav and Hunyadi. En route home, Hunyadi was taken prisoner by Serbian ruler George Brankovic, who had no love for Hunyadi's authority and whose Hungarian principality of Serbia had been estranged from Hungarian rule. Hunyadi was forced to barter for his release by arranging marriage between his son, Matthias Corvinus, and Brankovic's daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Cilli, in a matchup of purely political purposes.
Moldavian Exile Janos Hunyadi's imprisonment and Vladislav's military trouncing presented Vlad Dracula with the opportunity to finally own what he felt was his birthright — the crown of Wallachia. With the aid of the Ottoman Turks, Vlad Dracula assumed the throne. His exceptionally short-lived reign lasted just one month.
Backed by neighboring feudal warlords, Vladislav II of Wallachia took back Wallachia and drove the frustrated Dracula once again into the relative safety of the Turks. From there, and later with his uncle Bogdan in Moldavia, Dracula plotted his return to power for eight years.
During this time, a most surprising relationship developed between Dracula and the mastermind of his father's overthrow and death; Janos Hunyadi himself. When Bogdan was assassinated by a rival in 1451, Dracula was forced to flee once again — this time to Hungary and into the hands of Hunyadi.
The term boyar describes the landholding gentry of eastern Europe, who were considered nobility by birthright and were the ruling class of most countries and principalities. By custom, the boyarsnormally elected their own monarchs with selections from specific ruling families, orhouses. Boyars ruled their own land with relative autonomy but were expected to show loyalty to their rulers and set aside common disputes and power struggles in defense of the kingdom.
The Doorway to PowerThe unlikely combination of Vlad Dracula's guile and Hunyadi's political savvy soon proved advantageous to both men. After years of captivity, training, and failed indoctrination with the Turks, Dracula knew the mind-set and inner workings of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire, which made him an invaluable resource to Hunyadi. No doubt, Dracula's hatred of Turks was instrumental in the arrangement, and Dracula became one of Hunyadi's most trusted advisors.
Much to Dracula's benefit, tensions began developing between Hunyadi and Wallachia's Vladislav II. New threats from the Ottoman Turks forced Hunyadi to the defense of the city known today as Belgrade in Serbia, and Dracula was entrusted with his own troops to protect the borders of Wallachia.
The battle for Belgrade in early 1456 was a convincing victory for Hunyadi and his forces, but just three weeks after the Turks relinquished their ground and retired from the war, Hunyadi's own life was taken, not by battle, but by plague. With the flight of the Turks and Hungarian power in flux after Hunyadi's passing, the doorway to Wallachia was now wide open for Vlad Dracula.
Impalement was a hideous form of torture and execution, and it became Vlad Dracula's hallmark death sentence. A sharpened stake was forced through a victim's body, often with the use of ropes and horses, and then mounted into the earth vertically with the body dangling from above. Although the shock of such horrific abuse was enough to kill almost instantly, Dracula's minions took great care to perfect the “art” of impaling in order to prolong the agony as long as possible — sometimes for days.
Sticking It to the MassesDracula invaded Wallachia the same year Hunyadi died and subsequently overran the defenses of Vladislav's forces. It's said that Dracula himself dispatched Vladislav in hand-to-hand combat and took his head to ensure a permanent ending to Vladislav's reign. Dracula's primary objective for gaining absolute control of the throne was to undermine the power of the boyars, for whom he had little use and who'd been so instrumental in the deaths of his father and brother.
During the Easter festival in 1457, Dracula called the boyars of Targoviste to assemble for a grand feast. Dracula questioned each of the noblemen, asking how many princes of Wallachia they had known during their lives. According to the German minstrel, Michel Beheim, who wrote the poem Story of a Bloodthirsty Madman Called Dracula of Wallachia, the oldest boyars thought there had been at least 30 princes, some thought 20, and the youngest responded with seven. Dracula's response to their answers was decisive:
“How do you explain the fact that you have had so many princes in your land? The guilt is entirely due to your shameful intrigues.”
Legend has it that Dracula then seized 500 of the boyars and had them impaled. Although the number is undoubtedly exaggerated, there's little doubt that the oldest were executed in sufficient numbers to gain Dracula's reputation and the permanent appellation, Vlad Tepes, which translates into English as the unmistakable “Vlad the Impaler.”
In an interesting twist of historical character use in cinema, the name of Hungary's Matthias Corvinus was partially appropriated for the vampire filmsUnderworld and Underworld: Evolution, in which the male protagonist, Michael Corvin (Scott Speedman), was imbued with a genetic immunity to an undisclosed plague. Corvin's fifth-century ancestor, Alexander Corvinus (Derek Jacobi), developed the immunity after his village was wiped out and was described as a Hungarian warlord who was effectively the first true immortal.
Vlad Dracula replaced the boyars he disposed of with personal choices from the lower classes in a clever and efficient effort to ensure loyalty. For these recently endowed boyars, any attempt to replace their new monarch with another ruler would undoubtedly mean that their questionably gained powers would be stripped away by the established nobility.
Dracula's intense suspicion of the boyars of Wallachia was well-founded, and he used every means at his disposal to keep the pack at bay. He altered the makeup of his royal court to eliminate the older and more hostile boyars and replaced them with boyars of his own choosing. The established boyars were also economically tied to merchants of German origin in Transylvania. Dracula dealt a financial blow to the boyar aristocracy by establishing trade sanctions against the merchants and regularly raided key trade communities. He was an pure terrorist when it came to ruin the ancient Boyar viking traderoutes.
ORDER OF THE DRAGON
And Vlads Qonquest of the Ottoman Empire
Order of the Dragon
What connects Poland and the Dracula?
Well, on the first place those are Serbians. They created Sacred Order of The Dragon (Ordo Draconis), their nobleman Voivode Miloš Obilić with twelwe Serbian knights, commanders of famous winged Serbian light cavalry which in Hungary and Poland was introduced as Racowie in time of Polish King Władyslaw Jagiello, Zawisha Czarny of Garbow, Wladislav Warnechyk of Varna and Serbian hero Sibinjanin Janko (in Hungary remembered as Janos Hunyadi).
But, what else or to say who else connects Poland with Vlad Tepes called Impaler?
That is Jan Sobieski himself. Yes, King Sobieski was Grand Master of Draconists in his time and that way connected with Walachia of Vlad Impaler.
The Sovereign Imperial Roman Order of the Dragon
The famous Polish King, Jan Sobieski, the architect behind the great Turkish defeat at the gates of Vienna, also served as Grand Master between 1657 and 1696.
As Hungary and Transylvania crumbled beneath the weight of the Turkish onslaught, many members of the Dragon Order fell in battle and the orientation of the surviving knights drifted further eastward.
With the death of Jan Sobieski, leadership passed to Prince Dmitri Cantemir, the Despot of Moldavia, who was valiantly engaged in a conflict to stave off the Turks. Dmitiri rallied the last of the loyal Dragon knights but was ultimately defeated by the Turks and ousted from his principality.
The circle of the Order had dwindled significantly and, once Cantemir died without issue, the title of Grand Master passed to Dmitri's suzerain, Peter the Great of Russia. Without a circle of knights, however, the raison d'etre of the noble society ceased to exist and Peter chose to place the Order in abeyance.
Nonetheless, the titular right to reconstitute the order remained within the provenance of the Russian Crown.
Order of the Dragon symbol
A sign of this support was the fact that in 1431 Vlad II was inducted into the Order of the Dragon ("Societas Draconis" in Latin), along with the rulers of Poland and Serbia.
The purpose of the Order was to protect Eastern Europe and the Holy Roman Empire from Islamic expansion as embodied in the campaigns of the Ottoman Empire. Wishing to assert his status, Vlad II displayed the symbol of the Order, a dragon, in all public appearances, (on flags, clothing, etc.)
Well, on the first place those are Serbians. They created Sacred Order of The Dragon (Ordo Draconis), their nobleman Voivode Miloš Obilić with twelwe Serbian knights, commanders of famous winged Serbian light cavalry which in Hungary and Poland was introduced as Racowie in time of Polish King Władyslaw Jagiello, Zawisha Czarny of Garbow, Wladislav Warnechyk of Varna and Serbian hero Sibinjanin Janko (in Hungary remembered as Janos Hunyadi).
But, what else or to say who else connects Poland with Vlad Tepes called Impaler?
That is Jan Sobieski himself. Yes, King Sobieski was Grand Master of Draconists in his time and that way connected with Walachia of Vlad Impaler.
The Sovereign Imperial Roman Order of the Dragon
The famous Polish King, Jan Sobieski, the architect behind the great Turkish defeat at the gates of Vienna, also served as Grand Master between 1657 and 1696.
As Hungary and Transylvania crumbled beneath the weight of the Turkish onslaught, many members of the Dragon Order fell in battle and the orientation of the surviving knights drifted further eastward.
With the death of Jan Sobieski, leadership passed to Prince Dmitri Cantemir, the Despot of Moldavia, who was valiantly engaged in a conflict to stave off the Turks. Dmitiri rallied the last of the loyal Dragon knights but was ultimately defeated by the Turks and ousted from his principality.
The circle of the Order had dwindled significantly and, once Cantemir died without issue, the title of Grand Master passed to Dmitri's suzerain, Peter the Great of Russia. Without a circle of knights, however, the raison d'etre of the noble society ceased to exist and Peter chose to place the Order in abeyance.
Nonetheless, the titular right to reconstitute the order remained within the provenance of the Russian Crown.
Order of the Dragon symbol
A sign of this support was the fact that in 1431 Vlad II was inducted into the Order of the Dragon ("Societas Draconis" in Latin), along with the rulers of Poland and Serbia.
The purpose of the Order was to protect Eastern Europe and the Holy Roman Empire from Islamic expansion as embodied in the campaigns of the Ottoman Empire. Wishing to assert his status, Vlad II displayed the symbol of the Order, a dragon, in all public appearances, (on flags, clothing, etc.)
BOYAR RULE OVER ROMANIA
After Vlad Tepes
Nicolae Mavrogheni
Nicholas Mavrogenes (or Mavrogenous; Greek: Νικόλαος Μαυρογένης Nikolaos Mavrogenis, Romanian: Nicolae Mavroghenipronounced [nikoˈla.e mavroˈɡeni]; died 1790) was a Phanariote Boyar Prince of Wallachia (reigned 1786–1789). He was the great-uncle of Manto Mavrogenous, a hero in the Greek War of Independence.