# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/vlad-the-impaler
# Generated: 2026-09-02T13:13:50.400Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/vlad-the-impaler"
name: "Vlad the Impaler"
slug: "vlad-the-impaler"
description: "A 15th-century Wallachian prince whose preferred method of execution—driving stakes through captives—earned him an epithet that outlasted his three separate reigns. His name surfaces in two contexts: as a figure of resistance against the Ottomans in Romanian memory, and as the possible source for Bram Stoker's vampire, though Stoker's notes never mention him"
tagline: "15th-century ruler of Wallachia"
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1431"
deathDate: "1476-12-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0.7474546731198436
  historical:           36.342996
  currentAttention:     18.35714285714286
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Vlad III, second son of Vlad Dracul, spent his youth as an Ottoman hostage alongside his brother Radu after 1442. When his father and eldest brother were murdered following a Hungarian invasion in 1447, he spent years maneuvering between empires before seizing Wallachia with Hungarian backing in 1456. He consolidated power through a purge of the boyar class and dealt with Saxon resistance by impaling captured villagers—a tactic he escalated in 1462 when he had the Sultan's envoys staked and then massacred tens of thousands during a raid into Ottoman lands. The retaliation cost him the throne; his own brother Radu led the Ottoman counteroffensive, and Vlad ended up imprisoned in Hungary for over a decade. Released in 1475, he reclaimed Wallachia briefly before dying in battle near Snagov within months. German pamphlets about his cruelty became early bestsellers, and the patronymic lived on in ways he never controlled.