Index of Personal Names

Anonymous Ottoman chronicler, author of Angelescu, Gheorghe, Romanian general Tevārih-i āl-i Osmān 67 268 Acciaiuoli, Antonio I, duke of Athens and Angeloi [sing. Angelos], a Byzantine imperial Thebes 235 family 242 Adjani, Isabelle, French stage and film Angelović, Serbian branch of the Byzantine actress 277 family of Angelos Agârbiceanu, Ion, Romanian writer 275 Mahmud Pasha [Paşa], Ottoman grand Ahmed, khan of the Golden Horde 221, vizier 110–112, 120, 138, 148–150, 164, 224–225 237–246, 349, 352–354 Alaric I, king of the Visigoths 215 Michael, Serbian dignitary 110 Albert of Habsburg, king of Hungary and Anjou, dynasty of Naples and Hungary Croatia, king of Bohemia, elected king of Charles Robert I [Károly, “Caroberto”], Germany, duke of Luxembourg, archduke king of Hungary and Croatia 4–5, 16 of Austria xiii, 32, 34–35, 51 Louis I the Great [Nagy Lajos], king of Albert VI of Habsburg, archduke of Hungary and Croatia, king of Austria 134, 173 Poland 5–6, 16, 70 Alecsandri, Vasile, Moldavian poet and Anne of Foix-Candale, queen of Hungary and playwright 299 Bohemia 204 Alexander I Aldea [Alexandru Aldea], Antichrist, identified as Mehmed II, Ottoman voievod of 18, 21, 24, 25–27, 31 sultan 206 Alexander I the Good [Alexandru cel Bun], Arpad [Árpád] dynasty, first ruling house voievod of 17, 63, 70, 73 of the Principality of Hungary, see Alexander II [Alexandru (Alexăndrel)], Andrew III [András] voievod of Moldavia 71, 74, 108 Āşıkpaşazāde, Ottoman historian, author of Alexander the Child [Alexandru Coconul], Tevārīh-i āl-i ʿOsmān 138 and voievod of Wallachia 196 Augustus (Octavian), first Roman Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia 46, emperor 204, 254 234 Aymo, Giovanni, Venetian ambassador to Alexander Mircea [Alexandru Mircea], Hungary 166 great-grandson of Vlad III Dracula, Ayrer, Marc or Marx, German printer voievod of Wallachia 192–194, 388 200–201, 364, 369 Alexandra, Wallachian princess and sister of Vlad Dracula 31, 59, 71 Babinger, Franz, German Ottomanist 111, Allen, Woody, American actor and 155 filmmaker 275 Bacou, Mihaela, Romanian-born French Altenberger, Thomas, royal judge of anthropologist 300 Sibiu 207 Baedeker, travel guides 260 Alucard, Count, film character whose name is Balarin de Raconis, Jean, French a palindrome of “Dracula” 277 orientalist 236 Andreesco, Ioanna, Romanian-born French Balbi, Domenico, Venetian bailo at ethnologist xix, 299–300 234 Andreescu, Ştefan, Romanian Balcombe, Florence, wife of Bram Stoker historian 173–174 254, 390 Andrew III [András], king of Hungary and Balderston, John L., American playwright and Croatia 3 screenwriter 276 446 Index of Personal Names

Bartholomaeus de Giano, Franciscan Bogdan, Vlad [Bogdan III], voievod of friar 37, 67 Moldavia 157 Basarab I, voievod of Wallachia 3–5, 11 Bogrea, Vasile, Romanian linguist xv Basarab II, voievod of Wallachia 38–39, 41 Borgia, Cesare, duke of Valentinois 87 Basarab III the Old [Basarab Laiotă cel Botta, Leonardo, Milanese diplomat 180 Bătrân], voievod of Wallachia 178–180, Božić, Ivan, Yugoslavian historian 245 387 Brâncoveanu, Preda, Wallachian boyar 152 Basarab IV the Young, or the Little Impaler Branković, Serbian noble family and dynasty: [Basarab cel Tânăr, Țepeluș], voievod of George [Đurađ], despot of Serbia 28, 39, Wallachia 208 41, 53, 67, 75, 109 Báthory, Stephen V [Báthory István], Helena Palaiologina [Jelena Paleolog], Hungarian commander and voievod of wife of Lazar 110 Transylvania 180 Lazar, son of George [Đurađ], despot of Bayezid I the Thunderbolt [Yıldırım], Serbia 109, 110 Ottoman sultan 7, 12 Mara, daughter of George [Đurađ], wife of Bayezid II, Ottoman sultan 52, 186, 189, Ottoman sultan Murad II 28 223–224 Stephen the Blind [Stefan, Stepan], son of Beatrice of Aragon, or Naples [Aragóniai George [Đurađ] 110 Beatrix], wife of Matthias Corvinus and Bratul of Milcov, Wallachian dignitary 122 queen of Hungary 179, 203, 386 Braudel, Fernand, French historian 94 Beheim, Michael [Michel], wandering Browning, Tod, American film German singer, poet, writer xvii, xxii, director 276–278 xxiv, 118, 122-123, 161–162, 170–172, 200, Bruhier d’Ablaincourt, Jean-Jacques, French 208, 210–212, 214–215, 301, 317–346 anatomist and translator xix, 293–294 Benedict de Boythor, Hungarian Buczacki, noble Polish family from diplomat 110, 113–114 Podolia 36, 131 Bernheim, Hippolyte, French physician and neurologist 271 Calcea, Wallachian court secretary 91 Bestužev, Matthew [Matvei], envoy for Callistratus, Dr., character in Henry Cass’s Ivan III 224 film Blood of the Vampire 277 Black Prince [Negru Vodă], founder of the Calmet, Antoine Augustin, abbot of Senones, Wallachian dynasty 3, 4 author of Dissertations sur les Blaisdell, Elinore, American author and apparitions … 294 illustrator 275 Cantacuzeno, Cantacuzenus, see Blaise [Blasius], a citizen of Buda 126 Kantakouzenos Bloch, Marc, French historian 80 Caragea [Caradja, Karadja, Caratzas, Bloch, Robert, American crime, horror and Karatzas], noble Romanian family of science fiction writer 274 Byzantine origins: Constantin, brother of Bocignoli, Michael [Michael Bocignolus Michael [Mihalcea] 198 Raguseus, Miho Bučinjelić], Ragusan Dimitri [Dimitraşcu], son of diplomat 216, 218 Constantin 198 Bodin, Jean, French humanist xviii Michael [Mihalcea], purportedly married Bogdan I, voievod of Moldavia 60–71 to a descendant of Vlad the Bogdan II, voievod of Moldavia 71–72, 131 Monk 198 Bogdan III, see Bogdan, Vlad Tanda, princess, claiming descent from Bogdan, Ion, Romanian Slavist and Dracula 198 historian 219, 248 Carradine, John, American actor 277