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Vlad III the Impaler's
death
There are several variants of Vlad III the Impaler's
death. It is generally believed that he was killed in
battle against the Ottoman Empire near Bucharest in
December of 1476.
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Others say he was assassinated by
disloyal Wallachian boyars just as he was about to sweep
the Turks from the field or during a hunt. Other
accounts have Vlad falling in defeat, surrounded by the
bodies of his loyal Moldavian bodyguards (the troops
loaned by Prince Stephen III of Moldavia remained with
Vlad after Stephen Báthory returned to Transylvania).
Still other reports claim that Vlad, at the moment of
victory, was struck down by one of his own men. However
'one undisputed fact' is in the end Vlad's body was
decapitated by the Turks and his head was sent to
Istanbul and preserved in honey, where the sultan had it
displayed on a stake as proof that Kazıklı Bey was
finally dead.
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