Order of the Dragon Created: Vlad Dracula's Father Will Join
Emperor Sigismund lost Bosnia to his own vassal. So he created a chivalric order to bind his nobles closer — through dragon imagery and shared oaths. The Order of the Dragon required members to wear a dragon curled into a circle, strangling itself with its own tail, a noose around its neck. Vlad II of Wallachia joined and took the name Dracul — "the Dragon." His son became known as Dracula, "son of the Dragon." The order lasted barely a century. But that single nickname, passed from father to son, would outlive every medieval alliance and reshape vampire mythology forever.
December 12, 1408
618 years ago
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