Order of the Dragon Founded

1408

King Sigismund of Hungary established a chivalric order dedicated to defending Christendom against the Ottoman Turks and suppressing heresy within its borders. Its members wore a coiled dragon insignia on their cloaks. Among its inductees was Vlad II of Wallachia, whose epithet Dracul, the Dragon, would pass to his infamous son Vlad III, remembered by history as Dracula, the son of the Dragon.