Mircea the Elder
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Mircea the Elder was the Voivode of Wallachia from 1386 until his death in 1418. He was the son of Radu I of Wallachia and brother of Dan I of Wallachia, after whose death he inherited the throne.
Mircea the Elder. Fresco in the Episcopal Church of Curtea de Argeș
Vlad II Dracul
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Vlad II, also known as Vlad Dracul or Vlad the Dragon, was Voivode of Wallachia from 1436 to 1442, and again from 1443 to 1447. He is internationally known as the father of Vlad the Impaler, or Dracul
Mircea the Elder
…Calinichia, thus being a descendant of the House of Basarab. He was the father of Michael I of Wallachia, Radu II of Wallachia, Alexander I Aldea and Vlad II Dracul, and grandfather of Mircea II, Vlad Țepeș (Dracula), Vlad Călugărul and Radu cel Frumos, all of whom became rulers of Wallachia. Mircea II and Vlad…
The Vlad Dracul House in the main square of Sighișoara where Vlad Dracul lived in the early 1430s
Vlad Dracul's son, Vlad the Impaler (or Dracula)
John Hunyadi, who dethroned Vlad Dracul in 1447 (a sculpture by István Tóth in Budapest)