My Father, Vlad II Dracul was the head commander for the military force. After some time at Targoviste, Wallachia, I returned in 1448, having been informed of the assassination of my father and older brother at the hands of Wallachian nobles. After my father’s reign, I became Prince of Wallachia and ruled from 1456-1462.

I was part of one war. That war was The Night Attack of Târgovişte The conflict initially started when i refused to pay the tax on non-Muslims to the Sultan. My soldiers and i attacked the Turkish camp at night in an attempt to kill Mehmet, the sultan. We did not kill him but we damaged his army.

I was Born in Sighişoara, I had a tumultuous childhood and youth partly in Wallachia then in Anatolia as a political prisoner in the Sultan’s court. I was returned back to Wallachia. Here i found that my father had been beheaded and my older brother buried alive. I understood some of the brutal politics of his time as i was now made the ruler of Transylvania but it was obvious still under the control of the sultan and the nobles who had killed my father.

My mother's name was never recorded as she was part of the harem, at this time my father was believed to have been married to Princess Cneajna of Moldavia and also to have kept a number of Mistresses. I had two older half-brothers Mircea II and Vlad Calugarul and a younger brother Radu III the Handsome. I also had a half-brother also named Vlad through his father's mistress Caltuna. She entered a monastery and her son followed in her footsteps to become Vlad the Monk.