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Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431–1476/77), was a member of the House of Drăculești, a branch of the House of Basarab, also known, using his patronymic, as Vlad Drăculea or Vlad Dracula ((古代教会スラヴ語、教会スラヴ語:Владъ Дрьколъ)). He was posthumously dubbed Vlad the Impaler (modern (ルーマニア語、モルドバ語():Vlad Țepeș), ) He was a three-time Voivode of Wallachia, ruling mainly from 1456 to 1462, the period of the incipient Ottoman conquest of the Balkans. His father, Vlad II Dracul, was a member of the Order of the Dragon, which was founded to protect Christianity in Eastern Europe. Vlad III is revered as a folk hero in Romania and Bulgaria for his protection of the Romanians and Bulgarians both north and south of the Danube. Following his raids on the Ottomans, a significant number of Bulgarian common folk and remaining boyars resettled north of the Danube to Wallachia and recognized his leadership.〔 As the cognomen "The Impaler" suggests, his practice of impaling his enemies is part of his historical reputation. During his lifetime, his reputation for excessive cruelty spread abroad, to Germany and elsewhere in Europe. The name of the vampire Count Dracula in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel ''Dracula'' was inspired by Vlad's patronymic and reputation.〔 == Name == During his life, Vlad wrote his name in Latin documents as ''ラテン語:Wladislaus Dragwlya, vaivoda partium Transalpinarum'' (1475).〔''Anuarul Institutului de Istorie Cluj-Napoca'', no. 35, , 1996, (pp. 29–34 ).〕 His Romanian patronymic ''Dragwlya'' (or ''Dragkwlya'')〔 ''Dragulea, Dragolea, Drăculea'', is a diminutive of the epithet ''Dracul'' carried by his father Vlad II, who in 1431 was inducted as a member of the Order of the Dragon, a chivalric order founded by Emperor Sigismund in 1408. ' is the Romanian definite form, the ' being the suffixal definite article (deriving from Latin ''ラテン語:ille''). The noun ' "dragon" itself continues Latin ''ラテン語:draco''. In Modern Romanian, the word ' has adopted the meaning of "devil" (the term for "dragon" now being ' or '). This has led to misinterpretations of Vlad's epithet as characterizing him as "devilish". Vlad's nickname of ' ("Impaler") identifies his favourite method of execution but was only attached to his name posthumously, in 1550.〔 Before this, however, he was known as ' or ' (both meaning : Impaler Lord) by the Ottoman Empire after their armies encountered his "forests" of impaled victims. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Vlad the Impaler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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