[Barrett Hiebert]

Greetings,

I apolgize that it's been so long that I have replied, haha, live has been catching up to me! I Well, in this quote is all that my romanian Romulus knows and tells me so here it is folks. I am most interested also, since my preference of blades are straight ones! Haha, without further adieu!

[Thomas Laible]

I had an e-mail conversation with an expert about romanian swords.
Mr. Pinter wrote a book about swords in medieval transilvania:
http://arheologie.ulbsibiu.ro/publicatii/cart...uprins.htm

However he did some research and told me that nowhere in Romania exists a sword, which is surely addicted to Vlad Tepes. So it seems to be, that is was a hoax made up for or by the TV team.

Thomas

[Etienne Terpan]

I put the topic out of the grave
I'm actually doing some research about Vlad Tepes for a comic books. I'm looking for any informations about armours in Valachia around 1450. I know the topic is ancient, but maybe since that time, somebody would have traveled to Romania and get some informations about the knight armours in this location...

[Ozsváth Árpád-István]

I'm actually from Transylvania and I'm not a Vampire though
Vlad Tepes has little to with Transylvania, except that he was born there. Back than Transylvania was part of Hungary. Shortly after it went under Turkish occupation.
Vlad the third or Vlad the impaler was monarch of Valachia. In the romanian folklore he appears as a cruel but fair ruler who punishes the guilty but protects the innocent. Little or nothing is known about his swords, but I could imagine him with a turkish Kilij.

[Etienne Terpan]

A documentary I found (in french sorry), also mentionned Vlad using a Kilij and not a Toledo sword :
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xk02tr_l-ult...Z80ZcoaOkY

But in this film, the armour looks pretty fantasist. I'm not sure Vlad would have a Haubert in 1450, and the shield is deffinitly wrong (Vlad as a crow of the Barasab on his shield, the Dragon was on his father's one).

Have you got any info about Valachian armour on that time ? Not particulary Vlad's one, but the standart of the nobles of the location in the same period ?

[Bartek Strojek]

You can start by searching trough Manuscript miniatures, Armour in Art and similar sites for art from that time and place:

http://armourinart.com/search/?year=&year...er_page=50

Generally, I would suspect mostly Western/Central Europe influences on hospodars, voivodas and other high ranked individuals, but I'm definitely not sure.

[Isaac D Rainey]

This is from the Spike TV show Deadliest Warrior, it is a horrendous show filled with stereotypes and misinformation about weapons and armor. They try to pit historical figures against each other to see who would win. They usually do a few unbalanced "tests" to see which weapons are better and then put in the data in a computer which will calculate how many times out of a thousand each warrior would win. The hosts and "experts" they have on the show have no idea (for the most part) what they are talking about, and are extremely biased.

[Shahril Dzulkifli]

I myself had never seen Vlad Țepeș's sword itself. There are no photographic proof of such sword, I'm afraid. His sword is only found on manuscripts and paintings but no one knows whether the real weapon exists or not.