We’re in the last months of 1455. Relations between John Hunyadi and Vladislav II<\/strong> who ruled Wallachia had deteriorated again. Wallachian forces, supported by the Ottomans, attacked a Hungarian fortress – most probably the border point Bran Castle – and raided southern Transylvania. Saxon communities suffered losses, and estates belonging to Hunyadi himself were plundered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The political ground had finally shifted in Vlad Dracula’s favour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In spring <\/strong>of 1456<\/strong>, John Hunyadi faced unrest in F\u0103g\u0103ra\u0219, supported by the Wallachian claimant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The man who had once ordered Vlad III expelled from Transylvania now had great and pressing reasons to invite him back: the Ottomans were preparing to attack Semendria and Belgrade and <\/em>the Christian anti-Ottoman crusade was finally going to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the first 25 years of his life Vlad Dracula had been prisoner, prince, exiled, soldier and political pawn. Now Hunyadi helped him cross the mountains once more\u2014this time not as a fugitive, but as a claimant backed by military power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n With the support of Hunyadi and part of the Wallachian boyars, Vlad entered Wallachia and attacked his rival Vladislav II<\/strong> probably near Old T\u00e2rg\u0219or <\/strong>(near today’s Ploie\u0219ti.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n The military strategy later attributed to Vlad Dracula was one of speed, surprise attacks, and a small, mobile force <\/strong>rather than a slow-moving army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After years of wandering, Vlad had finally returned to the land he had been trying to reach since his first exile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exact date remains uncertain, but the change of power occurred sometime between 15 April <\/strong>and 3 July 1456<\/strong>, but definitely before August 1456. <\/p>\n\n\n\n We know for a fact that Vladislav II last letter is dated 15 April 1456, Targoviste and sometime after 26 June was was killed by boyars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At the same time in July 1456 Hunyadi<\/strong>, on his way to Belgrade, wrote to the Saxons of Brasov asking them to “support Vlad Voivode with troops” as he “entrusted Voivode Vlad <\/strong>with the task of looking after their defense.” By supporting Vlad Dracula to the Wallachian throne John Hunyadi was reinforcing the Christian defense ahead of the Ottoman attack of Belgrade: <\/p>\n\n\n\n “I have entrusted Voivode Vlad with the task of seeing to the defense of the southern [border] of Transylvania,” (John Hunyadi, 3 July 1456<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n In a letter Vlad Dracula wrote in 1476 to the merchants of Brasov he informes them that “We opened all the roads, and along Ruc\u0103r<\/strong>, and along Prahova<\/strong>, and on Teleajin <\/strong>and on Buz\u0103u<\/strong>.”<\/em> – this means the three big customs roads connecting Brasov to Wallachia: <\/p>\n\n\n\n I marked the three passes on the map below. Vlad was heading towards Targoviste. I think he would have followed #1,<\/strong> past Bran Castle, Piatra Craiului and Rucar:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II laid siege to Belgrade, but the city was successfully defended by the Hungarian forces led by John Hunyadi<\/strong>. The victory halted Mehmed\u2019s advance into Hungarian territory – for now. Hunyadi, however, did not live long to celebrate it: he died of the plague at Zemun on 11 August 1456<\/strong>, only a few weeks after the victory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 6 September 1456<\/strong> is the date of the earliest known document issued by Vlad Dracula during his second reign. It is signed at T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te<\/strong>, the seat of his Wallachian rule In it, Vlad confirmed his renewed oath of loyalty to the King of Hungary. In solemn language, Vlad declared that he \u201cbowed his head, and the heads of all his people, into the bosom and under the protection of the king.<\/em>\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n It also reveals the delicate political balance he had to maintain: ruler of Wallachia, yet acknowledging the protection and authority of the Hungarian crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A letter to the people of Bra\u0219ov, dated 10 September 1456<\/strong>, provides a contemporary evidence of Vlad’s whereabouts. It begins: \u201cWritten in T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te<\/strong>, 10 September 1456.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The same letter reveals how Vlad understood the political world he had spent his youth navigating:<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cA man or a ruler is powerful and strong he can make peace in any way he wants; but when he is powerless, another one will come and rule him as he pleases.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n We can understand why, after seeing his father and older brother murdered, losing the throne once and spending years in exile, Vlad had little intention of allowing history to repeat itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This time, he came to stay<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vlad \u021aepe\u0219 was one of the Wallachian rulers who placed considerable emphasis on strengthening the country\u2019s fortifications, many of which had been severely damaged by Ottoman incursions along the Danube. During his reign, both T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te and Bucharest <\/strong>(where he later moved his court) were fortified<\/strong>, determined to defend Wallachia against further Ottoman attacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although no surviving written documents definitively records the construction of Chindia Tower<\/strong>, most archaeologists believe that the tower was erected during Vlad \u021aepe\u0219\u2019s reign, becoming one of the most enduring remnants of the princely court at T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “In the center of this courtyard stands a large, towering stone tower<\/strong> that amazed us with its height; it houses the city clock and serves as a post for many guards. At dinnertime, they beat a drum\u2014much like our khaliliya<\/em> [kalimba]\u2014to halt movement for the night; afterwards, they light a great beacon, and as long as it remains lit, no one dares to walk the streets. At daybreak, they beat the drum again, extinguish the lights, and fire cannon shots to signal to all the city’s inhabitants that they may walk the streets; such is their custom. If they find anyone walking about at night\u2014God forbid!\u2014the guards kill him.” (Paul of Aleppo, 17th cent. clergyman and chronicler, in Calatori Straini despre Tarile Romana<\/em>, vol VI – Foreign Traavelers about the Romanian Countries<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n A wooden church at Dealu Monastery (first documented 17 Nov. 1431) would have existed during Vlad’s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was at Dealu Monastery, near T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te<\/strong> that, only fifty years later, on 10 November 1508, Serbian hieromonk Macarie printed the first book<\/strong> in Wallachia – making T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te an important printing center in southeastern Europe. It was Vlad Dracula’s nephew, Radu IV the Great, who brought Macarie here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n From T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te<\/strong>, Vlad Dracula began strengthening his authority, his military forces and his personal guard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He was also reorganising his military forces. Alongside the larger host that could be summoned in times of great danger, Vlad developed a smaller force that could be called upon immediately. Sources describe a personal guard that never left his side<\/strong>, together with carefully selected soldiers who served him directly, his Vitejii<\/em>, the Brave Ones.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Not yet the legendary figure of later chronicles, but a young ruler who had learned from years of displacement that power was the difference between occupying a throne and keeping it<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vlad would have known where his father was killed. He would have went to visit the place, maybe even pray by his father’s grave – today we have no records left to tell us where it was – maybe inside the church:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet a document dated 3 April 1534, from the reign of Prince Vlad Vintil\u0103, son of Radu IV the Great<\/strong> (who brought Father Macarie to Wallachia), mentions that in the village of B\u0103lteni<\/strong>, \u201cdeath overtook Vlad Voivode the Elder<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Although the original church at B\u0103lteni was altered over the centuries, a church built around the same period, some 150 kilometres to the east at Curtea de Arge\u0219, offers a glimpse of the architectural world of Vlad\u2019s Wallachia: the Princely Church of Saint Nicholas (Biserica Domneasc\u0103 \u201eSf. Nicolae\u201d)<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The earliest churches of Wallachia, dating from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, bear the distinctive imprint of Byzantine architecture from Constantinople, combined with Serbian-Bulgarian influences. Their characteristic features include a tower and dome rising above the naos, supported by four large arches, together with attached supporting pilasters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1457<\/strong>, Vlad Dracula visits Govora Monastery<\/strong>, probably on his way back to Targoviste. Raised during the reign of his father, we know that Vlad donates a bell<\/strong> dedicate to Saint Nicholas . The bell’s inscription reads: “This bell was cast in the name of God and Saint Nicholas, 6965” – Anno Mundi, so 1457 AD, during the rulingg of Vlad III.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You might notice grave leaves on the bell. There was a vineyard at Govora, bought by and gifted to the monastery by Vlad Dracul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Wallachians and the people of the Lower Country,\u201d numbering around 6,000 men<\/strong>. Near Dolhe\u0219ti, he defeated and drove out his rival, Petru Aron<\/strong>, who had killed Stephen\u2019s father, Bogdan II. Victorious, Stephen began his long reign on Tuesday, 12 April 1457<\/strong>, during Holy Week before Easter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Vlad\u2019s intervention helped place upon the Moldavian throne a prince who would become one of the most formidable rulers of the region\u2014and, in time, a powerful ally and adversary in Vlad\u2019s own turbulent world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 16 April 1457 <\/strong>Vlad is in Targoviste<\/strong>, signing documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Soon, T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te <\/strong>was not enough. Vlad knew he had to reinforce the entire Wallachia, from the inside. For Vlad, strength was not simply a personal virtue. It was the foundation of political survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was the beginning of the Vlad remembered by history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After reclaiming the Wallachian throne, Vlad turned his attention to the boyars whose rivalries had repeatedly weakened the principality. Through plotings and double-crossings, these boyars and their families had enjoyed rich lifestyles while eight voivodes came to the throne of Wallachia and left, in the span of only thirty years – between the ruling of Vlad’s grand-sire, Mircea the Elder, and his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For Vlad, this was more than revenge. He needed to make certain that the throne he had fought so long to recover could not be taken from him again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vlad did systematically reduce the power of such double-faced boyars. Some leading nobles were executed; others were removed from positions of influence and replaced by men whose loyalty belonged to the voivode rather than to an entrenched family faction. Vlad also strengthened his personal guard, recruiting trusted soldiers and mercenaries, and began building a more dependable military force drawn from lesser nobles, knights and free peasants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Legend says <\/strong>that Vlad took revenge on the boyars from Targoviste implicated in the violent overthrow of his father and the death of his elder brother, Mircea. This notorious punishment happened on Easter day, 1457. The boyars were lured with a feast, captured and marched to Poenari Fortress. Those who had betrayed Vlad’s father were forced to labour on the fortress until many died from exhaustion. Whether the episode occurred exactly as the chronicles and later legends describe it is uncertain, but the story captures something important about Vlad’s rule: he intended the old boyar order to understand that the prince, not their great families, held the final authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Poenari Fortress became one of the places associated with this consolidation of power.<\/strong> Perched high above the Arge\u0219 valley, its principal purpose was to control the Arge\u0219 Gorge<\/strong>. Poenari fortress offered what Vlad needed most: a defensible stronghold beyond the reach of the factions surrounding the princely court at T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Although Poenari could hold about one hundred soldiers – it wasn’t a large place – it was a last resort in case of an attack. It was also a good place to keep the treasury safe, and even a few prisoners. Vlad strengthened and expanded it to three times its original size, its shape following the contours of the mountain peak on which it was built.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The young prince who had spent years as hostage, exile and claimant had finally learned the lesson his years of wandering had taught him: a throne could be won with allies, but it could be kept only with power.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n After the death of John Hunyadi on 11 August 1456<\/strong>, Vlad Dracula\u2019s political interests aligned with those of Mih\u00e1ly Szil\u00e1gyi<\/strong>, Hunyadi\u2019s brother-in-law, who sought to preserve and reorganise the Hunyadi faction in Transylvania. Together, they stood against the powerful Hungarian magnates led by Ladislaus Garai and <\/strong>\u00dajlaki, Voivode of Transylvania (who co-ruled with Hunyadi), who supported young King Ladislaus V Posthumus<\/strong> (who, of course, opposed the upcoming Mattias Corvinus’ election as King of Hungary). <\/p>\n\n\n\n Szil\u00e1gyi, whose family controlled extensive estates in Transylvania, worked to rally Hunyadi\u2019s former supporters after the great captain\u2019s death, while Vlad Dracula, whose own position depended upon the balance of power along Wallachia\u2019s northern frontier, had every reason to support him. The situation became increasingly complicated with the intervention of Oswald of Rozgony, Count of the Sz\u00e9kelys and captain of the royal forces in Transylvania, who was supported by the inhabitants of Sibiu and Bra\u0219ov<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Thus, in the years following Hunyadi\u2019s death, Vlad found himself drawn into the factional struggles of the Hungarian kingdom where alliances, rivalries, and military power were inseparable from the security of his own throne… And all this apart from the Ottomans’ increasing pressures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first internal <\/em>document signed by Vlad Dracula that survived is dated 17 April in Targoviste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On 14 March Vlad was writing <\/strong>to the people of Sibiu <\/strong>(Hermannstadt) chiding them for granting shelter to the Wallachian pretender Vlad the Monk<\/em> – his half-brother – and demands that they cease hostile actions against him (Wallachia). They don’t. Therefore…<\/p>\n\n\n\n Vlad reinforces to the holy Cozia Monastery the village of Troiane\u015fti, from both banks of River Olt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n By the spring of 1457<\/strong>, Vlad \u021aepe\u0219 was back in Transylvania, with his army, and his target was Sibiu. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Vlad\u2019s army crossed the Carpathians at Turnu Ro\u0219u Pass<\/strong>, right into southern Transylvania, near Sibiu, advancing along the lower H\u00e2rtibaciu valley, where the estates and residences of the two merchants lay. Vlad\u2019s forces attacked and burned the Saxon villages of Ca\u0219ol\u021b, Hosman, and Noul Rom\u00e2n<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Why? At the beginning of his second reign, Vlad had reached agreements with the Saxons of Sibiu, as he had with Bra\u0219ov and the Burzenland, but the Sibians broke their agreement by sheltering a rival claimant to the Wallachian throne in Amla\u0219<\/em><\/strong> area, close to the Wallachian border. This pretender went even further, claiming the rights of a voivode and granting two powerful Sibian merchants, Petermann and Petru Gereb of Ro\u0219ia<\/strong>, permanent rights to the revenues of the important customs stations at Ruc\u0103r and Br\u0103ila<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This campaign marked the beginning of Vlad\u2019s crisis with Sibiu and Bra\u0219ov<\/strong>, but it was more than an act of retaliation: by striking these estates Vlad was also challenging their attempt to control the lucrative trade route and customs revenues running from via Ruc\u0103r, through Wallachia <\/strong>to Danube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here, in the north of Wallachia, Vlad was waiting for word from Szil\u00e1gyi about the results of the negotiations between Brasov and the Wallachians, concerning the payment of border duties. The Saxon merchants of Brasov were dependents of selling their goods in Wallachia, and through it further south, in the Ottoman empire. But Only Vlad Dracula could grant them their privileges back. Yet Vlad’s ally was Szil\u00e1gyi. Therefore Brasov had to make peace with Szil\u00e1gyi too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So on 1st December 1457 Vlad writes to the pwople of Brasov (Corona Kronstadt) that they are free to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n “sa umble oamenii vostri la noi, s\u00e1 cumpere si s\u00e1 vind\u00e4 liberi, f\u00e4rl nici o grij\u00e4 si f\u00e1r\u00e1 paguba, ca si cum ar umbla prin tara voastr\u00e4”, aceasta in schimbul reciprocit\u00e4tii : “Asisderea, si oamenii nostri s\u00e4 mearg\u00e4 slobozi la voi f\u00e4r\u00e4 nici o pagub\u00e4”.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n “your people to walk freely here by us, to buy and sell free, without worry or loss, as they walk in your land” this in exchange for [economical] reciprocity: “Likewise, our people to be free to walk by you without any loss.” (Vlad Dracula to the merchants of Brasov, 1 Dec 1457)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n Vlad reconfirms the monastery’s lands, villages, lakes, watermills, forests, Roma camps, as they were during the times of his father, Vlad Dracul, exempting it from taxes and duties. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He writes to the Saxon guilds asking for craftsmen – planning <\/strong>to soon reinforce the princely palace of Bucharest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Gherghi\u021ba was an important market fair on the Brasov – Rucar – Targoviste – Brails road, as well as going south from here to Bucharest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Iuxta fluvium acque Domboviche<\/em>” – can only mean Bucharest – Vlad writes again to the guilds of Brasov. This might be the time when the reconstruction of the Bucharest princely court would have started.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Vlad’s relations with Sibiu and Brasov cool down, as Szil\u00e4gyi is no longer Governor of Transylvania and Corvinus’ influence in Transylvania is on the rise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 10 April 1459: King Mattias Corvinus orders the guilds of Brasov to stop selling weapons to Vlad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Boyar Albul cel Mare<\/em>, Albul the Great (the eldest of two brothers, or maybe a relative of his), attacked and burned down Govora Monastery (built by late Vlad Dracul) as well as its adjacent villages. <\/p>\n\n\n\n A monastery represented a center of economic and social power for its founder and his family, playing an important role during political conflicts, serving as a source of legitimacy for princely authority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The boyars involved are killed, we know this for sure about Albul the Great. Although it is known that Vlad \u021aepe\u0219 killed a large number of boyars, only two villages are recorded to have been confiscated by him for treason (“hiclenie<\/em>“), from said Albul the Great: Glodul and Hin\u021ba – and donated to a faithful servant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Late April-Mai 1459 Vlad refuses to pay the yearly tribute to the sultan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"Rucar](\"https:\/\/alluringcreations.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/looking-at-Rucar-Bran-Pass.jpg\")
May – June 1456: Vlad travels from Transylvania into Wallachia, near T\u00e2rg\u0219or <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Medieval mountain passes between Brasov and Wallachia<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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11 August 1456 <\/strong>– The Siege of Belgrade. The death of John Hunyadi<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
6 September 1456, T\u00e2rgovi\u0219te<\/strong>: Vlad’s 2nd ruling of Wallachia is confirmed through a document<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Turnul Chindiei<\/em>, Chindia Tower is built<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Vlad at Dealu Monastery<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Vlad at B\u0103lteni<\/strong> and Govora<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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The church bell donated by Vlad Dracula to Govora Monastery, V\u00e2lcea County, Romania, photo Wikipedia by Tetcu RM<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nVlad Dracula sent troops to help young Stephen the Great<\/strong> return to power: week before Easter, 1457 <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Easter <\/strong>Sunday, 17 April 1457 <\/strong>– Vlad Dracula at Poenari Fortress<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Vlad and the pro-Hunyadi Szil\u00e1gyi: understanding Vlad’s political actions in southern Transylvania, 1457\u20131459<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
14 March 1457<\/strong>, 17 April: Vlad is in Targoviste<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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14 April 1457, Easter Eve, Vlad Dracul was in Targoviste<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Vlad\u2019s Campaign against Sibiu<\/strong>, April – May<\/strong> 1457<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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1 December 1457 <\/strong>Vlad Dracula was at Rucar<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
How Saxon merchants peace with Wallachia was dependent on making peace with Szil\u00e1gyi <\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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24 January 1458 Mattias Corvinus is elected King of Hungary.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
5 March 1458<\/strong> Vlad Dracula is at Tismana Monastery<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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25 May 1458<\/strong> Vlad Dracula in Gherghita, not far from Bucharest<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
12 June 1458<\/strong> Vlad is near river Dambovita<\/strong><\/em> <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
April 1459: local boyars headed by Albu the Great rise against Vlad Dracula. <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Bucharest, 20 September 1459<\/strong>: Vlad Dracula at the new Princely Court<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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