Q:Facts: - issue: mircea -lrb- vlad Tepes -rrb- , and radu cel frumos ii , vlad calugarul , vlad iii dracula - death place: balteni , principality of wallachia - title: prince of wallachia - caption: a contemporaneous portrait of vlad dracul . - reign: 1436 -- 1442 ; 1443 -- 1447 - successor: mircea ii , vladislav ii - mother: unknown - predecessor: alexandru i aldea basarab ii - death date: december 2 , 1447 - father: mircea the elder - name: vlad ii dracul - image size: 230px - image: vlad ii dracul of wallachia.jpg - birth place: principality of wallachia Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of vlad ii dracul .
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vlad ii -lrb- died december 1447 -rrb- , known as vlad dracul -lrb- -rrb- , was a voivode -lrb- -rrb- of wallachia .he reigned from 1436 to 1442 , and again from 1443 to 1447 .he was the father of mircea ii , vlad calugarul -lrb- -rrb- , vlad iii dracula , who became posthumously known by the epithet '' Tepes '' -lrb- -rrb- , and radu iii the beautiful .vlad ii received the surname '' dracul '' in 1431 , after being inducted into the order of the dragon , founded in 1408 by the king sigismund of hungary -lrb- the later holy roman emperor -rrb- , as part of a design to gain political favor from the catholic church and to aid in protecting wallachia against the ottoman empire .