The House of Basarab

Many years ago I met a very nice woman, last name was Basarab. She and her older sister were the last members of the House of Basarab. The Basarabs are a Transylvanian family that traces it's roots back a thousand of years. The name was originally Basarabi and they were Hungarian. Basarabi I founded a kingdom independent of the Kingdom of Hungary in the Carpathian in Transylvania. A branch of the family was the House of the Draculesti. My friend was a descendant of Vlad the Impaler aka Dracula. My friend was more or less Dracula's great great great granddaughter. She told me that when she was a teenager she found out the family connection. Her grandfather was an elderly man and his older brother had just died. They went ot the funeral and it was there she found out the family history. Her grandfather and his late brother were the last two Basarabs in the old country. When the communists came into Romainia after the war the old noble families were hunted down to be executed. The Basarabs had long ago lost any power or money, they were just a beloved old family with a big old house in a small village in Transylvania. When the communists came for them the peasants had smuggled them out of the area and eventually to the United States. The grandfather and his brother lived out their lives in the US. My friend's grandfather had one son and his brother no children. My friend's dad was the last male Basarab and she and her sister were the end of the House of Basarab.

Vlad the Impaler was a bloody ruler and warrior. He was known for impaling his foe and leaving them in fields. Vlad made a name for himself in battles with the Ottoman Empire when it was being expelled from Hungary. Vlad was also known for impaling the peasants. His second wife was Ilona and was fabled to have bathed in a mixture of milk and virgins blood as a beauty treatment. This was not your usual family.