| Ilona Szilágyi | |
|---|---|
| Consort to | Vlad III the Impaler |
| Offspring | Vlad Dracula son of unknown name[1]. |
Ilona Szilágyi was the second wife of Vlad III the Impaler.
After Vlad, Voivod of Wallachia, had been imprisoned by his former ally Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, in 1462, he gradually won back the king's favour and married Ilona, daughter of Michael Szilagy, a Hungarian nobleman allied to Vlad, and a cousin of the king. In the years before his final release in 1474, lived with her in a house in the Hungarian capital.
Around 1465, Ilona bore him two sons: the elder, Vlad IV Dracula, spend most of his time in the king's retinue and later was an unsuccessful claimant to the Wallachian throne. The younger, whose name is unknown, lived with the Bishop of Oradea in Transylvania until 1482, when he fell ill. He returned to Buda, where he died in his mother's presence.[2].
The descendants of Vlad and Ilona married into the Hungarian nobility.
References
- ^ http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/vlad.html
- ^ Raymond T. McNally, Radu Florescu (1994). In search of Dracula: the history of Dracula and vampires. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. ISBN 0395657830.
External links
- Biography of Vlad The Impaler of Wallachia A family background of Vlad III, his wife and kids
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