Who were count Dracula's parents?

Answer 1

Vlad Ţepeş 'Drăculea' (aka Bram Stoker's 'Dracula') parental information.

" 'Beware of his dark brown eyes, black hair and the frowned busy eyebrows. This man's a devil !!", a rich boyar yelled to the crowd, moments before being impaled by the prince." (fragment from old manuscript)

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If you think of historic person Vlad Ţepeş aka 'Drăculea' that generated the idea for Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', then one should know his parents were from Transilvania, România. According to Wikipedia (2011), some details are brought in regards of his parents:

"His Romanian surname Drăculea (also spelled "Drakulya"), by which Vlad was referred to in several documents, is in reference to his Romanian father, Vlad Dracul, who was a proud member of the monarchical chivalric order for selected nobility with a Latin name "Societas Draconistrarum" meaning the Order of the Dragon."

"His mother is believed to be the second wife of Vlad Dracul, Princess Cneajna of Moldavia, eldest daughter of Romanian ruler Alexandru cel Bun. He had two older half-brothers, Mircea II and Vlad 'Călugărul' (Vlad 'the Monk'), and a younger brother, Radu cel Frumos (Radu 'the Handsome')."

Thanks Wikipedia for letting us know the truth.

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Additional info:

In Bram Stoker's fictional book, Count Dracula does not mention his parents in the book, Dracula. He just tells Jonathan Harker that he is from an old family.

"I myself am of an old family,...."

He also discusses the battles his Dacian race had fought in the past, going back over the centuries, but no mention of his family.