Draculas family crest1/16/2024 ![]() They were all drawn from the ruling royalty of Europe. There were only twenty four first class members initially inducted. The Order was founded as a secret fraternal society–by the Emperor and Empress of the Holy Roman Empire. ![]() In the imperial fortress on February 8, 1431, Vlad was inducted during high ceremony into Empires Order of the Dragon. Vlad went to Nuremberg together with other rulers of the Empire. Jan Hus’s Hussite heresy started to spread all through Eastern Europe and there were Protestants popping up everywhere. It was a year after the death of the first Protestant martyr, Jan Hus. In February of 1430, the Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund summoned the imperial Diet at Nuremberg. ![]() By the way, several generations of the family did use the name Dracula. To tell the story of the Dracula family we have to back track through history a little. My good friend Chet Karasinski penned the following piece about the real Dracula. What most of you readers don’t know is that Dracula had some very interesting Polish ties. (There are many versions of Dracula in the movies. ![]()
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