What was Vlad the Impaler’s childhood like? How did Vlad the Impaler change the world? Vlad the Impaler (born 1431, Sighișoara, Transylvania [now in Romania]—died 1476, north of present-day Bucharest, Romania) was a voivode (military governor, or prince) of Walachia (1448; 1456–14...
It was a widely held belief that Vlad the Impaler was the inspiration for the character of Dracula in Bram Stocker’s 1897 novel of the same name since both of them had a taste for blood and sadism and there are also commonalities between the names. Dracula’s Castle *Bram Stoker However...