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( AKA : "Lisa"
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The second wife of Prince/Count
Vlad Dracula, cousin of Matthias Corvinus, the King of Hungary,
and the mother of Adrian Fahrenheit Tepes, also known as "Alucard."
When Prince Dracula abandoned Orthodox Christianity and became
a Roman Catholic late in his life, the Hungarian king permitted
the Wallachian voivode to marry her. The marriage took
place in 1475, just under two years before Dracula would
fall on the battlefield. History does account for her death in
the early 1500s, though for the CastleVania mythos, it is revealed
that Ilona was something of a doctor, aiding her husbands people in times of great epidemics. According
to CastleVania lore, Ilona "Lisa" Szilagy was lynched
by the very people she dedicated her life to helping, tried as
a witch for her relationship with Dracula, then burned at the
stake. In 1792, Alucard encountered a Succubus witch that
attempted to impersonate Ilona in the hopes of swaying him to
his fathers side (CastleVania:
Symphony of the Night). |