Radu the Handsome: The Forgotten Vlad Dracula

Lindsay and Madison discuss Radu the Handsome, as well as how to be a hostage, that there were a lot of Vlad’s in the 1400’s, and how literal nicknames were.
Information pulled from the following sources:

2023 All That’s Interesting article by Amber Morgan

2023 Q News article by Destiny Rogers

Academic

Cultura Colectiva article by Isabel Carrasco

Doms2Cents article by Doms Desk

Dracula’s Bloodline: A Florescu Family Saga by Radu R. Florescu, Matei Cazacu

Geni

Legends of Dracula by Thomas Streissguth

Voivode of Wallachia blog

Wikipedia

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