Dracula?: Vlad Tepes (His Wife and Family Tree) and An Alternate History

If you know about Dracula then you will probably think that there are many alternate histories which you will be faced with. How about this alternate hisory of Vlad Tepes Dracula? what if Vlad Tepes was more of a diplomat and was more "caring" to the Saxons in Transylvania? Or to the Hungarians? Or to the Turks? Who would have heard of Dracula as we do now? He was a Prince of Wallachia, and he did have some power, but he did not use it in the correct way.

I suspect that his name wouldn't have been found in the volume that Bram Stoker found his name in, and perhaps Dracula might have been a she. If your wondering look up the history of the Countess of Transylvania. It's a rather interesting read in a person who came closer to being an actual "vampire." However I'm not going to dig into details with that part, at least not in this hub. I could but I won't, that is another hub all of its own.

He did have something else, a wife. Two wives in fact, although not at the same time. I think his first wife was the more interesting of the two. In addition to enemies in Transylvania, he had enemies in the Ottomans and the Turks. ( In many records they are referred to as Turks and Ottomans. I am not sure of the reasoning behind this) There were always raids, and his first wife who is not mentioned by name in history, knew of the dangers, possibly better than he did.

There are no records of her thoughts and the more famous record is from Dracula, but that would most likely be incorrect. Still she did jump to her death.

His first wife was aware of the price that she would get as Vlads' wife if she were ever captured by the Turks. This part of her story survives. In 1462, when the Turks began an attack near the castle she was living in, she jumped to her death in the river below. This was upon hearing of the impending arrival of the Turkish army by a messenger. Also she jumped due to a report of her husbands' death, which was untrue. Later the part of the river where she jumped to her death would be renamed the Lady’s River in her honour. Note that there is no name other than the Lady.

What if she had lived? I think perhaps she could have given him a chance to be less brutal, or at least more sympathetic, why would they name a river in her honour if she wasn't at least respected.

If not captured, would Vlad Tepes remained somewhat more balanced? Possibly, but probably not. He had survived many battles, and his methods were already well known. In fact there are many record in Germany, Romania and Russia about his killing methods.

Would she have gained fame in her own right? I believe in time she would have, a women married to Vlad Tepes would have become powerful in her own right at some point in her life.

Am I right?

I'm not sure, in some cases, Vlad Tepes is looked upon as a great prince of Wallachia, in other writings he is portrayed of as evil. It depends on the reader. In fact if you are a reader from Western Europe your readings will be influenced more by the German portrayal than anything else. The books published by the Germans are highly negative of Vlad Tepes.

If you live in Eastern Europe it is in a more positive manner. Most of the records there are based upon Wallachian and Russian histories. These published books have influence more of the Romanian and Eastern European point of view.

I've also wondered if the women would have encouraged Vlad to fight more, or to make peace. I believe she would have encouraged him to fight more, it was in his nature.

A fun game of What if.