![]() ![]() " Like his grandfather, Mircea, Vlad benefited from the monographs that were intended to be exhaustive, but two recent studies have drawn attention to the possibility of the existence of two wives from the Hunedoara family: the one from 1462, which is said to have been his summer Mathias Corvin, and Justina Szilágyi Horogszegi, who was certainly Mathias' cousin. So here is my attempt at feeding the relevant sections of Hasan's 2013 article through Google Translate. 159 of the PDF, though, it is suggested that Mihnea was a son not of Vlad's unknown first wife (the "unknown Transylvanian noblewoman"), but rather of an unknown mistress before the first marriage. She survived Vlad Dracul, and first married Pál Suki, then János Erdélyi. She was the widow of Vencel Pongrác of Szentmiklós when "Ladislaus Dragwlya" married her, most probably in 1475. Vlad's second wife was Jusztina Szilágyi, who was a cousin of Matthias Corvinus. His first wife may have been an illegitimate daughter of John Hunyadi, according to historian Alexandru Simon. "Vlad had two wives, according to modern specialists. This source is reference in the following discussion from English Wikipedia: If you can read Romanian (or want to struggle with inputting the text into Google Translate, which is kinda adequate for rendering Romanian into English), there is a very detailed and scholarly treatment of the wives of Vlad at pp.
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