According to some historians, the name Drăculești is derived from the membership of Vlad II, Dracul (in Old Romanian and related languages, drac meant 'dragon') in the Order of the Dragon (founded in 1408 A.D.). The line of the Drăculești began with Vlad II, the Dragon, son of one of the most important rulers of the Basarab dynasty, Mircea the Elder. Descendants of the line of Drăculești would eventually come to dominate the principality, until its common rule with Transylvania and Moldavia by Mihai Viteazul in 1600. These lines were in constant contest for the throne from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. The House of Drăculești ( Romanian: ) were one of two major rival lines of Wallachian voivodes of the House of Basarab, the other being the House of Dănești. Voivode of Wallachia, Voivode of MoldaviaĪs early as 1632 ( 1632), as late as the 18th century JSTOR ( February 2007) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message).
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