Vladislav II of Wallachia

It is not known if Vladislav II had been invited to take part in the Battle of Kosovo (1448) or not. It is certain however that he didn't send any troops in aid and as a result, John Hunyadi took back the Transylvanian possessions of Făgăraș and Amlaș on 23 April 1452. Vladislav retaliated by embargoing all Wallachian trade to Brasov county, then part of Hunyadi's Transylvania. However, on 15 November 1455, after Hunyadi informed the people of Brasov that the embargo would be lifted, Vladislav seized back Transylvanian possessions, and attacked the Făgăraș fortress and in the process burns a few Saxon villages. In response, Hunyadi gives Vlad III; a son of the rival Drăculești house of Basarab (the future Vlad the Impaler) military support and, with the help of the Saxons whose villages were burned down, disposed Vladislav II.

On July 22, 1456, Vlad II Dracul's son, Vlad III Dracula killed Vladislav in hand-to-hand combat. Although Vladislav's gravestone is marked August 22, 1456, that was the date of the engraving. He was not buried at the Snagov Monastery which he founded, instead, he was buried at the Dealu Monastery. The engraving was put on the gravestone long after by his family, by August 22 Vlad II was already on the throne. (Vlad III Dracula, the life and times of the Historical Dracula. By Kurt W. Treptow.)

Vladislav founded the Snagov Monastery in 1453 where a wooden sculpted door was preserved to this day and it is exhibited at the Religious Art Museum of Bucharest. At Mount Athos in 1450, Vladislav gave Koutloumousiou Monastery a charter and gave a gift of 10000 Akçet to the St. Elijah Skit.

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  The only portrait of Vladislav II.
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  Doors to the Snagov Monastery.

Information gathered from Radu R. Florescu and Raymond T. McNally Dracula: Prince of Many Faces Copyright: 1989

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