Family Tree of Vlad Dracula to the Present Day

Dracula's Bloodline

A Florescu
Family Saga

Dracula'south Bloodline represents the authors' endeavor to accurately characterize centuries of a unique family history in one, single book. Fatigued from Dracula's mystic universe, the procedure of writing the book met all kinds of misfortune and difficulties, starting at its commencement drafting in 2009 and ending three years later in diverse misadventures. Dogged past Dracula'southward cursed and mysterious hand, Professor Florescu suffered the unfortunate occurrence of the outright disappearance of the typed manuscript (simply one version) somewhere between Boston and the French Riviera. Alas, the authors never found it, and then the volume had to be rewritten a second time. Cheers to Matei Cazacu, an esteemed medievalist from the Sorbonne in Paris, and an editor/author from Washington DC, the enterprise began anew high up in the Transylvanian Alps, only 5 miles upwards from where many of the Florescu archives lay in Brasov. The result is a fascinating Florescu saga - ane you can find below.

Present day

We stand alpine

Every person can find within him or herself a voice, beckoning them to their bequeathed roots. Having known where and how a family is started, one can draw life and new meaning helping to shape a path toward the future.  You volition now experience a reputable historian'due south endeavor to write the history of his family roots whilst reaching for his country's historic essence.

This is the Romanian saga of Florescu genealogy, a story that both precedes and includes the real life Vlad the Impaler, known to the world as Dracula. The Florescu proper name was born in a time and in a place when the written give-and-take was rarely used.  But it is one that can be traced back centuries, even before Dracula existed or Christopher Columbus sailed.

Nevertheless, the procedure of digging starts with a distant past, and it is a story that never ends.

Ahead of his story, Radu R. Florescu came to discover, in over decades of sharing his wisdom, the historical significance of his family, a story marked past the undying seal of Vlad the Impaler. Despite all difficulties, the Florescu name reached out and stood its footing throughout centuries of wars, political conflicts, betrayals of blood and, in the terminate, family unit survival. This is why the Florescu saga is the story of an undying family, a proper noun that stood tall against all odds.

The immortal flower

Throughout more than six centuries, the Florescu family has survived the trials and tribulations of a trivial known and understood corner of Europe. Despite all misfortunes, the Florescu name has stood tall and to this mean solar day continues to write its own story in a new historic period far removed from the first burial grounds of the first medieval tombs. Immortalized past a flower, the Florescu heraldry became the symbol of an immortal family, led by religious beliefs, national pride, a sense of service and a deep respect for Romania's ain national heritage.

In search
of the truth

Among many obvious reasons, i would believe that Radu R. Florescu'south background as a historian - and several grants such as the Fulbright Foundation and the American Philosophical Lodge - would have led him (and his late colleague Raymond T. McNally) to discover the real person, a Romanaian prince called Vlad Tepes.. However, some other inspiration came from Radu Florescu's uncle, George D. Florescu, a flamboyant character like many of the Florescus who walked the streets of Bucharest in 19th century article of clothing and knew the history of every family in Romania. Spiritually adopting Radu as his son, George Florescu instilled the passion for the Florescu genealogy – a love of labor that blessed his nephew and inspired Matei Cazacu, i of Uncle George's students.

George Florescu helped the authors with their work on Vlad the Impaler by taking Radu Florescu on a historical bout of the Florescu family. With Uncle George at his side, Radu visited archives, castles, monasteries, private collections, galleries and libraries throughout all the regions of Romania and beyond. Then this is how the story behind the story began.

Never-ending story

During the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Florescu proper name flowed like its own fast running stream through the events and among the iconic personalities of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia. Dramatic events drew the family into a whole universe of battles, fraternal jealousies and geo-political conflicts. At every plough, the flower of the Florescu was in that location: at Dracula's Castle in Targoviste; alongside the battling Michael the Brave at the famous Battle of Calugareni; in the many quango chambers with the Prince of Wallachia, Contantin Brancoveanu and his sons, Constantin, Matei and Radu. And last, but not least, the Florescus and the enduring symbol of the flower, survived and prospered through another four generations from eighteenth to nineteenth century under Greek rule and into the twenty-first century.

The rise of the undying

The Florescu family unit rose through entangled intermarriages of the Florea family (the Florescu family's original ancestor) with the official princely families of the lands now known as Romania. Having to deal with a near total absence of written word, the story's first is similar to a bildungsroman exhibition. The reader is taken in a historical trip and meets the early family unit members, born and buried in the area of Severin (the native soil of the original Florescus).

Here, the reader meets Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia, too known every bit Dracula, and acknowledges how Vlad the Impaler interacted with the Florescu family. To be sure, the 15th and 16th centuries passed leaving profound wounds on the family roots. The Florescu proper name survived generally due to the Florescu women – two "Marias" in fact, one who lived to more than 100 years in the 16th century!

The seal of the flower

Having said that, where does the Florescu saga begin? How did the authors discover the linkage betwixt Vlad the Impaler and the Florescus?

Although there is no knowledge of where precisely the Florescus came from, Radu Florescu's adventure started with findings at the Brasov Archives - where the name of Florea was rediscovered. The link to Vlad Tepes was found in the genealogical notes of Uncle George, Romania'south foremost genealogist. Indeed, Dr. Cazacu presumes that Vlad Tepes may accept had Florescu blood in him: Tepes' slap-up-granddaddy, Radu the 1st, , was married to a Princess Ana (after known as a Nun Calinichia) who was born in the Florea clan.

Within over 100,000 rare old documents, there is an ancient glaze of arms depicting a man with a helmet, holding a blossom – a Romanian argument of totemic legacy from Transylvania ("the country beyond the forest"). More than six centuries one-time, the coat of artillery is that of a family called Florea, a Christian name which stands for bloom (floare).

These facts - forth with other findings in the volume - institute the link betwixt the Florescu family and Dracula'south bloodline and their descendants. The seal of the flower has become the family insignia – a graphic mantel that conveys an undying family for centuries past, and hopefully for centuries to come.

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