Although he doesn't appear to be an enemy for the out set, just listening to the intro should clue you in that something is fishy. He used to be a Master Tactician and friend of Leon, until his wife Elisabetha fell ill and died. Angry at life, he fell ill. Just when Leon's love was kidnapped, Mathias just happened to know where Sara was taken. As it turns out, Mathias turned to the dark side and merely used Leon to kill Walter so he could steal his Ebony Stone.
He dissapears at the end, and becomes Lord of the Night, King of all vampires.
It's assumed that he later changes his name to Vlad Tepes and becomes that one we all know as Dracula.

~ From CastleVania Dungeon

Mathias Cronqvist (マティアス . クロンクヒスト Matiasu Kuronkubisuto), he was the best friend of a man known as Leon Belmont. Together formed an undefeatable company that fought in the name of God. Mathias served as the tactical genius, while Leon was a warrior without peer. However, shortly after losing his wife, Elisabetha Cronqvist, Mathias would become bedridden and would reveal to Leon that his own betrothed, Sara Trantoul, had been kidnapped by the vampire, Walter Bernhard, and taken to a castle within the Forest of Eternal Night.

It was a plot. Mathias had come up with a brilliant plan. Blaming God for taking his wife away from him, he turned to evil and was merely using Leon to kill Walter so he could steal the vampire's soul with the use of the Crimson Stone. After Leon defeated Walter, Mathias disappeared, changed his name to "Lord of the Vampires, King of the Night," and then became Count Dracula.

At the end of the game, it is revealed that Mathias was in possession of the Crimson Stone, an alchemical artifact that passes the spiritual essence of any slain vampire into whomever wields it. The power of the stone was what transformed Mathias into a vampire (not the traditional blood-gift). Possessing the stone over the course of centuries is what transformed Dracula into the world's strongest vampire and presumably what assures that he is resurrected whenever he is slain. (This strange loop suggests that whenever Dracula is killed, as wielder of the Crimson Stone, his power is transferred directly back to him every time.)

However, although his dark designs went down exactly as he had planned, Mathias had not counted on the grief and rage of his former best friend. At that moment, Leon swore an oath that he, his children, and all future generations of the Belmont family would "hunt the night" and protect humanity from supernatural evil. The whip that Leon used to destroy Walter, the Vampire Killer, which was created from a power released upon the death of Leon's beloved Sara, would eventually be passed down through generations of Belmonts to become legendary in its own right.

~ Resume from Wikipedia

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