Category: House of Drăculești

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House of Drăculești

The Drăculești were one of two major rival lines of Wallachian voivodes of the House of Basarab, the other being the Dănești. These lines were in constant contest for the throne from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Descendants of the line of Drăculești would eventually come to dominate this principality until its unification with Transylvania and Moldavia by Mihai Viteazul in 1600.

The line of the Drăculești began with Vlad II Dracul, son of one of the most important rulers of the Basarab dynasty, Mircea cel Bătrân. The name Drăculești is derived from the membership of Vlad II Dracul, "the Dragon," in the Order of the Dragon (founded 1408). One of his sons was Vlad III Draculea, (Son of Dracul).


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abt Nov 1431 Segesvár, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary - bef 10 Jan 1477 photo
1392 Principality of Wallachia - 1446 photo
abt 1462 Wallachia, Ottoman Empire - abt 12 Mar 1510
aft 1462 - abt 1500




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