His father was murdered in a political intrigue, and Vlad apparently was determined not to suffer the same fate.
In one story, he is said to have invited his political enemies to a meeting at his castle. Vlad then locked the doors and burned it to the ground.
Another story tells of the visit of an Ottoman ambassador. When the ambassador refused to remove his turban as a sign of respect, Vlad had it nailed to the poor man’s head. That surely did not do anything to improve relations between his Kingdom and the Turks.
But the cruelty for which Vlad is best known also gave him his nickname: Tepes, which means “impaler.”
To serve as a warning to his enemies, Vlad would impale his prisoners on long poles, leaving them to twitch and rot in the sun.
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