This ruler controversially stacked the Prince's Council with foreigners, and his head was preserved in a mixture of honey and alcohol after he died in battle.
This ruler controversially stacked the Prince's Council with foreigners, and his head was preserved in a mixture of honey and alcohol after he died in battle. This figure's tumultuous family life included the blinding and burning alive of his brother Mircea at Târgovite, and the assassination of his uncle by Petru Aron and the murder of his father in Bălteni. This man fought at the Battle of Direptatea under Ştefan cel Mare. After successfully leading the Night Attack, this man was overthrown by his younger brother, the lover of Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II, and he tried to wrest power back from Radu the Handsome at the Battle of Vaslui. For 10 points, name this voivod of Wallachia who gained his nickname by placing his defeated enemies on stakes and was the inspiration for the novel Dracula.
This ruler controversially stacked the Prince's Council with foreigners, and his head was preserved in a mixture of honey and alcohol after he died in battle.
{Vlad III} [or {Vlad the Impaler}; or {Vladislav Dracula}; or {Vlad Tepes}; prompt early on {Dracula}]