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Do you know who is Count Dracula or other may say the Prince of Darkness? Is he a legend or a myth? Or just a pigment of our mind's eye?

Pls share with us your thoughts and ideas about him.

well, i never believed in darculas... for me they are just a product of fictions...

Fiction lang po yan

un nga sabi ko nga... pero may nabalita sa aming lugar dito sa bicol na may dracula daw ewan ko lang kung 22o un pero may nakakita daw... baka naman sabi-sabi lang... pero nabalita un sa tv... iniisip ko nga baka spoof lang... kasi hindi ako naniniwala and ayokong maniwala...

totoo iyan, ang pangalan pa nga niya ay christopher Lee

siya nga?! wow sna makita ko siya... hihingi akong autograph...

bwahahahha

back to topic, hindi totoo iyan..mga resulta lang iyan ng mga may weirdong kaisipan

Yes, there was a real Dracula, and he was a true prince of darkness. He was Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad Tepes, meaning "Vlad the Impaler." The Turks called him Kaziglu Bey, or "the Impaler Prince." He was the prince of Walachia, but, as legend suggests, he was born in Transylvania, which at that time was ruled by Hungary.

According to legend, Walachia was founded in 1290 by a Transylvanian named Radu Negru, or Rudolph the Black. Dracula's grandfather, Prince Mircea the Old, reigned from 1386 to 1418. He fought to keep Walachia independent from the Turks but was forced to pay tribute to them. He and his descendants continued to rule Walachia, but under the suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire (Turkey).

The throne of Walachia was not necessarily passed from father to son. The prince was elected by the country's boyars, or land-owning nobles. This caused fighting among family members, assassinations, and other unpleasantness. Eventually the royal House of Basarab was split into two factions -- Mircea's descendants, and the descendants of another prince named Dan II. Dan's descendants were called the Danesti.

Mircea had an illegitimate son, Vlad, born around 1390. He grew up in the court of King Sigismund of Hungary, first probably as a hostage and later as a page. Sigismund, who became the Holy Roman Emperor in 1410, founded a secret fraternal order of knights called the Order of the Dragon to uphold Catholicism and fight Turkey. Vlad was admitted to the Order, probably in 1431. The boyars of Walachia started to call him Dracul, meaning "dragon." Vlad's second son would be known as Dracula, or "son of the dragon." Dracul also meant "devil." So some of Dracula's enemies called him "son of the devil."

Sigismund made Vlad the military governor of Transylvania, a post he held from 1431 to 1435. During that time he lived in the town of Sighisoara or Schassburg. You can still visit the citadel there and even the house where Vlad's son Dracula was born. Today there's a restaurant on the second floor. There's also a mural in the house that may depict Vlad Dracul.



This post has been edited by Eraserheads on August 18, 2004 01:49 am

Tama si E-heads

eh kasi yung typical na dracula na alam ko ay yung blood sucker

kowww..wala ka lang masabi

Ngek! Di naman po... Share ko lang this tidbits for educational purposes.

Hmmm... There is a slight changes with that... and later on turn him into a blood sucking vampire. I'll let you know that story later.

kung san daw dapat nakabury yung bones niya ang nakita lang ay wolf bones... he was buried in or within a church vicinity...

If I am a writer, given that many resources say that he is a "cruel with his punishments" (daw) prince... it would be a good plot to work with...

Dracula being a vampire is like the tale of Merovingan Knights... you really can twist history if you want to... IMO it is now hard to separate truth from fiction...