Vlad the Impaler

[Leslie Hauck]

I understand the male line from Vlad Tepes the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia
died out 6 generations later with Alexander the Cocoon, Prince of Wallachia
& Moldavia and his brother Mihail Radu, Gioan Bey, Prince of Wallachia.
But are there any descendents of Vlad the Impaler today, perhaps through a
female line.
Wouldn't it be bizarre to be carrying some of his DNA around.Perhaps a
recessive gene lying dormant just waiting for the chance to come out.

Does anyone know ?
Or how about being a cousin. I've never seen anything in this discussion
group showing a relationship to these Princes of Wallachia between circa the
14th and 17th centuries.
I was merely curious as he has an interesting history.
Leslie Hauck

[Leo van de Pas]

Dear Leslie,
Vlad has been discussed not so long ago. There was this American with
his 'sensational' discovery that Queen Mary of England was a descendant of
Dracula. However, reading the fine print of this stupid news paper report
tells you that she is a descendant 'of the senior line' of Vlad's family.
In fact she descends from Vlad's illegitimate half-brother.
There are MANY fourth/fifth cousins so-many-times removed
today, it is almost as easy to ask "who is not related".

To avoid the fairly well known line from Vlad's halfbrother to Queen Mary,
I tried to link Bob Livingston without success, John Steele Gordon without
success. But I found Sarah Ferguson (amongst many) is a third cousin
eighteen times removed, and so is Lady Diana Spencer.

Alexander I
Voivoide of Valachia
-1360
I
----------------------------------------------------
Elisaveta Bassaraba Radu I 'the Black'
1340-1367 Voivoide of Valachia
I I
Katharina von Schlesien-Oppeln Mircea I 'the Old'
1367-1420 Voivoide of Valachia
I -1418
Johannes I von Schlesien-Glogau I
1385-1439 Vlad II Dracul
I 'the Dragon'
Margarethe von Schlesien Voivoide of Valachia
-1491 I
I Vlad III Dracul
Margarethe von Mansfeld 'the Impaler'
I 1431-1476
Botho zu Stolberg-Wernigerode "Dracula"
1467-1538
I
Juliana zu Stolberg-Wernigerode
1506-1580
I
William the Silent, Prince of Orange
1533-1584
I
Charlotte Brabantina von Nassau
1580-1631
I
Charlotte de La Tremouille
1602-1664
I
Lady Amelia Ann Sophia Stanley
-1702
I
John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl
1660-1724
I
Lady Susan Murray
1699-1725
I
Lady Catherine Gordon
1718-1779
I
Alexander Gordon, 4th Duke of Gordon
1743-1827
I
Lady Georgiana Gordon
1781-1853
I
Lady Louisa Jane Hamilton
1812-1905
I
Lord Herbert Montagu-Douglas-Scott
1872-1944
I
Hon.Marian Louisa Montagu-Douglas-Scott
1908-1996
I
Major Ronald Ivor Ferguson
1931-
I
Sarah Ferguson
Duchess of York
1959-

Hope this doesn't disappoint you---too many of you (not me!)
share the genes of Dracula.
Best wishes
Leo van de Pas

[MTaHT]

Maria Leszcyzenska of Poland (wife of King Louis XV) was a descendant of Radu
of Wallachia, Vlad Tepes brother. They have many living descendants.

Mike Talbot
(no relation to
Lawrence Talbot
to you midnite movie buffs)

[MTaHT]

Dracula's father was called Dracul (the Dragon).
The "a" suffix was a diminutive, hence Dracula:
"the little dragon".

One gateway to Dracul:

12. WALACHIA, Vlad 3 Dracul domnul of
b. 1400? Transylvania, d. 1446<---|
m. MOLDAVIA, Maria of <---parents of DRACULA
| (domnul Vlad 4 Dracula, Tepes)
| (1431-1477)
| (domnul approximates duke, not count)
11. WALACHIA, Radu 3 cel-frumos domnul, b. 1435?, d. 1474
|
10. WALACHIA, Maria of, b. 1460? Transylvania
m. MOLDAVIA, Stefan cel-mare domnul, b. 1450?, d. 1504
|
9. MOLDAVIA, Hanna Despotowna, b. 1490? Moldavia, d. 1578
m. SANGUSZKOWICZ, Fiodor, b. 1490?, d. 1547
|
8. SANGUSZKOWICZ, Roman voivod Lithuania, b. 1520?, d. 1571
m. CHODKIEWICZOWNA, Aleksandra, b. 1540?, d. 1570
|
7. SANGUSZKOWNA, Aleksandra, b. 1560? Poland, d. 1602
m. ZASLAWSKY, Janusz voiv.Volhynia, b. 1560?, d. 1629
|
6. ZASLAWSKA, Zofia, b. 1580?, d. 1626
m. OSTROZANKY, Jan cast.Pozn, voiv., b. 1547, d. 1622
|
5. OSTROZANKA, Anna, b. 1610? Poland, d. 1648
m. JABLONOWSKY, Jan Stanislaw, b. 1601, d. 1647
|
4. JABLONOWSKY, Stanislaw, b. 1634 Poland, d. 1702
m. KAZANOWSKA, Marianna, b. 1643, d. 1687
|
3. JABLONOWSKA, Anna, b. 1660 Poland, d. 1727
m. LESZCZYNSKI, Rafal, b. 1650, d. 1703
|
2. POLAND,KING, Stanislaw Leszczynski, pr.Lorraine,
b. 20 Oct 1677 Lwow, d. 23 Feb 1766 Luneville
m. OPALINSKA, Maria Katharina, b. 1680, d. 1747
|
1. POLAND-LESZCYZNSKA, Marie Charlotte Sophie de Lorraine,
b. 23 Jun 1703 Poznan, d. 24 Jun 1768 Versailles
m. FRANCE,KING, Louis 15 "the beloved",
| b. 15 Feb 1710, d. 10 May 1774
|
many descendants, Robespierre didn't get 'em all.

ref: some old doings by the Augustan Society pub.in "Omnibus".
? = date is a guess for research purposes, only.

Enjoy,
Mike Talbot