Des Essientes: I recently read Stoker's Lair of the White Worm and I wondered if the legendary apostate king of Mercia that is the transmigratory villian of the novel is at all a well known historical figure in Britain. Regarding his Dracula I would say it had a Slavophobic theme in that it depicted Slovaks as the count's most ardent human henchmen that didn't desert him when even his Gypsy minions had.
Not known to me, but history isn't my thing. Not mentioned in standard school education anyway which usually starts at 1066 Battle of Hastings.
I always thought of Dracula as a pimp, sucking the life out of young maidens the way he did.
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