Vlad III

Type Figure Region Wallachia Time 1431–1476 Also known as Dracula

Vlad III (1431–1476), Voivode of Wallachia, was famed for impalement torture and is one of the prototypes for the later 'Dracula'.

Timeline

1431–1448Sighișoara · TransylvaniaSon of Vlad II, he grew up in Transylvania; around the 1440s he was sent to the Ottomans as a political hostage, experiencing the sultan's court and Balkan power politics firsthand.
1448–1462Târgoviște · WallachiaFirst acceded in 1448 with Ottoman support but was quickly driven out; in 1456 he regained the throne with Hungarian support, ruling with an iron fist to discipline the nobility, strengthen taxation and the military, and repeatedly raid Ottoman frontiers.
1462–1476Near Bucharest · WallachiaAfter Mehmed II's personal campaign in 1462, he went into exile in Moldavia and Hungary; in 1476 he regained the throne for a third time with a joint Moldavian-Hungarian army, and died that winter in a battle against Ottoman vassals.

Encyclopaedia Britannica: Vlad III https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vlad-the-Impaler
The Cambridge History of Turkey, Volume 1: Byzantium to Turkey, 1071–1453 — Kate Fleet (2009)