I know that this is off topic, but, I'm working on a script and need some information on Vlad Dracul III aka Dracula. I've searched through hundreds of google results, look in books at work, and wikipedia and still cannot find the information I seek. All the information I have read through discusses rumors that Drac had a mistress. It is also rumored that she lied about being pregnate and Drac killed her in a very painfull manner. I'm trying to verify this rumor and find out the woman's name so that I can use it in a script that I'm writing. All help will be appreciated. Sincerely, David

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I dunno,......but Vlad's full name was Vlad Tepisch.

and tepisch meaning carpet. ;P

Vlad "Spanky" Tepisch.

um.. okay. Vlad Tepes (pronounced Tzepesh, the s has a little thingie under it in Romanian). Tepes means the Impaler, in freespeak. AFAIK, he was the son of Vlad Dracul, or Vlad the Devil. This comes from the fact that his father was a knight of the order of the Dragon (I think somewhat related to the Teutons, basically some knights that vowed to protect Europe from Islam and the Turks). The dragon was on his breastplate and what not, and ergo the peasants and what not, not knowing what a dragon was, equated it with a devil. The best site I can find in English about the whole thing is http://www.donlinke.com/drakula/vlad.htm cheers, drac (the 4th)

Interesting stuff. BTW, Drac, I've always vaguely considered name "Tepes" to be Magyar in origin. Probably because of the "sh" at the end. :-) It's all hopelessly jumbled around here anyway. For instance, Tirgoviste, Dracula's capital, is basically the same as "trgoviste", Croatian (and Serbian?) word for a settlement where people come to buy and sell stuff. As an iteresting side note, the Stephan Bathory who's mentioned there - a prince of Transylvania and the king of Poland, who later relieved Vienna from a Turkish siege - is a member of the family which a century later gave the infamous Elisabeth Bathory. She's considered to be the source of the blood-drinking part of Dracula's legend. Her biography.

interesting, erlik as for targoviste, it's only natural, since targ = marketplace :)

I thinnk I mentioned sometime ago that I had an uncle called Vladimir. He had chronic asthma. We called him 'Vlad the Inhaler'............

gad..I've seen some 'historical' movies(in the Silohette Romance sense, maybe..;) on the Sci-fi channel, which had an element of truth..enough to hold the bodice-ripping together..
Seen a picture of 'ol Vlad tsepesh's castle (ironically, I've never been closer than Athens or Istanbul..go figure), it's seen better days.
I don't know that mistresses were that unusual back then; the order of the Garter (as I understand it) came about from a 'fashion disaster' by a mistress of one of the English Kings..;)

Incidentally, "trg" in Croatian means square or place. Like in Lenin's Square. :-) I don't know whether "trgovati" (to buy and sell) came from "trg" or vice versa. BTW, is it Tirgoviste or Targoviste? And do you pronounce the vowel at all? And the closest I came to Transylvania was when I visited the Djerdap dam as a kid. Ah, good ol' Communist days. Not. Hony soit qui mal y pense. :-)

we have that sound.. hmm.. it's hard to say it... it's like an uh. but not really... like if you were to say trg... english doesn't have it so it's virtually impossible to say it. anyway, if you can imagine an a or an i with a little ^ above it, that's the sound. it's a vowel. if it's in the middle of the word (new-ish7 language rules) it's a. if it's in the beginning it's i. So if you see Tirgoviste, it's most likely an old map or something. thanks, drac

Thanks to everybody for their help. The script I'm writing is a film adaptation of the Castlevania game series produced by Konami. I was hoping to finish it and try and market it to Konami as a potential movie but Paul Anderson got there first. Now I'll be happy to finish it, cause I really am still enjoying telling the story. To Drac: Next you will be telling me that if I have Constantinople or edge of the world on a map it is out of date. You and your crazy modern geography :p David :)

Of course the map's out of date. Any map that doesn't show the world as a disc is out of date.

What about Berilia, Tubal, Great T'Phon and Jerakeen! Great A'Tuin goes without saying of course!

I felt that there was a name Elizabeth that was just a reaction to the question - It turns out that his wife was named Elizabeth, Elizabet or Elizabeta. But the googles I did kept turning up the name Mina or Mena - mostly though these names seemed based on fictional works. Perhaps they knew something though - As I've been googling for days trying to find some obscure information of my own I'll let you take the ball and run with it - Hope it proves to be of some help.

As to someone else doing what you were doing first - do not
allow yoursejf to be discouraged by the attempts of others
to protray a story that seems on the surface to be similar to what you were going to do. If yours is truely original there will be enough differences that there is a place for both...
just make sure the release date is different enough so your work can be fully appreciated and not confused for that other work. - TJ

Message edited on: 02/28/2006 04:51

Mina? Mena? Are you sure that wasn't "Mihnea"? :^)

no..mene mene tekel upharsin..;)

numbered,numbered,judged,smashed ??? How do the words on Belshazzars wall have anything to do with Vlads mistress?? Sure he judged her a liar and killed her with his knife in a most disgusting manner . . . but what's bothering me is the nature of his game .. Pleesssed to meet you hope you guess her name .... now you dune it!!! I got a little bit of Mick running around in my head and he won't go away.

I thought it was "Mene Mene Tekel Perez"....?

I think Pakled got it right (from the Book of Daniel in the Bible)...either way, I guess it's come to mean "the handwriting on the wall" - mouse not know much about Oliver Cromwell. MICK:". . . I was about ten miles from Bakersfield . . ." Gosh Durn Mick's still running around up there; Oh well Fat Tuesday's gone and so should he be soon ". . . so if you're down on your luck and . . . " [a couple seconds of silence] oh good!! he stopped . . . Mick:"a girl with far away eyes" Well If you'll excuse me I got's to go talk to my inner child - but really!! check out the name Mina. I'd guess it's short for Wilamina. -