Late medieval source for the Dracula story or Ein wünderliche und erschröckenliche hystori von einem groszen wüttrich genant Dracole wayda, der do so gar unkristenliche martter hat angelegt, die menschē als mit spissen, auch dy leüt zu tod geslyffen, etc.

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Late medieval source for the Dracula story or Ein wünderliche und erschröckenliche hystori von einem groszen wüttrich genant Dracole wayda, der do so gar unkristenliche martter hat angelegt, die menschē als mit spissen, auch dy leüt zu tod geslyffen, etc.

1419

https://www.bl.uk/collection-items/late-medieval-source-for-the-dracula-story

Published in Bamberg in 1491, this book is one of the strongest sources for the Dracula story. It is the history of Wladislaus Drgwyla, also known as Vlad III, a 15th-century Prince of Wallachia, now part of Romania. He was known after his death as ‘Vlad the Impaler’ due to the inhuman cruelties practised by his armies during wars with the Ottoman empire.

ger, Latn

British Library

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Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, 1430 or 1431-1476 or 1477

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Vlad the Impaler, in full Vlad III Dracula or Romanian Vlad III Drăculea, also called Vlad III or Romanian Vlad Țepeș, (born 1431, Sighișoara, Transylvania, Romania—died 1476, north of present-day Bucharest, Romania), voivode (military governor, or prince) of Walachia (1448; 1456–1462; 1476) whose cruel methods of punishing his enemies gained notoriety in 15th-century Europe. Some in the scholarly community have suggested that Bram Stoker’s Dracula character was based on Vlad....