Order of the Dragon
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The Order of the Dragon was a monarchical chivalric order only for selected higher aristocracy and monarchs, founded in 1408 by Sigismund of Luxembourg, who was then King of Hungary and Croatia and la
Ceremonial sword of the Order, c. 1433, displayed at the Neue Burg, Vienna.
Order of the Dragon. Reconstruction in Trakai Island Castle museum, Lithuania.
Stefan Lazarević, Prince of Serbia
Stibor of Stiboricz
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
Order of the Dragon
…Constantinople in 1453, it continued to play a role in Hungary, Serbia and Romania, which bore the brunt of the Ottoman incursions. The Prince of Wallachia Vlad II Dracul, the father of Vlad the Impaler, took his name from the Order of the Dragon, also known as Ordinul Dragonului. Sigismund faced fierce struggles for…
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)