But vampires weren’t generally considered to be nobility. That was Bram Stoker deciding to mix a real person (not a count, but a prince) and vampire legends.
You can read about vampire folklore going back to Mesopotamia. Nobility being involved was not really a common thread.
Even the earliest documented case of hysteria over someone claimed to be a vampire (which is pretty recent) involved a peasant being the one accused: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petar_Blagojević
Even in the most well-likely case of someone buried to prevent them from becoming a vampire, there is no indication that she was nobility.
But vampires weren’t generally considered to be nobility. That was Bram Stoker deciding to mix a real person (not a count, but a prince) and vampire legends.
You can read about vampire folklore going back to Mesopotamia. Nobility being involved was not really a common thread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_folklore_by_region
Even the earliest documented case of hysteria over someone claimed to be a vampire (which is pretty recent) involved a peasant being the one accused: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petar_Blagojević
Even in the most well-likely case of someone buried to prevent them from becoming a vampire, there is no indication that she was nobility.
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/in-a-17th-century-polish-grave-archaeologists-have-discovered-the-bones-of-a-woman-believed-to-be-a-vampire-2171262
I’m sorry, it’s just not true.