elisabethwoodville:HISTORY MEME | 2/6 women:Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Báthory Erzsébet).C
elisabethwoodville:HISTORY MEME | 2/6 women:Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Báthory Erzsébet).Countess was born on the 7th August 1560, in Nyribatir, Hungary. While she has several names, those which are Báthory Erzsébet (Hungarian) and Alžbeta Bátoriová (Slovakian), English historians have chosen to entitle her as Elizabteh Bathory for ease. She died aged 54 in Cesijite Castle, Kingdom of Hungary (today Cachtice, Slovakia), on the 21st August 1614.Elizabeth was born into renowned Bathory family of Hungarian nobility. Her father was George Bathory, brother of Andrew Bonaventura Bathory, who had been a Voivod of Transylvania. Her mother, Anna Bathroy, was daughter of Stephen Bathory of Somlvo, he has also been a Voivod of Transylvania. Through her mother’s relations, Elizabeth was the niece of Stefan Bathory, Hungarian noble, Duke of Transylvania and King of Poland.Being raised and born into one of the wealthiest families of the era, it was only expected that as a young woman Elizabeth be exposed to a wide range of literature, arts, music and language. She was fluent in Latin, German and Greek.Elizabeth Bathory and four collaborators were accused of killing and torturing over hundreds of young women and girls over a period of 25 years, 1585-1610. The number of victims to suffer at the hands of her and her accomplices is unknown. Yet the number of killings was estimated to be over 650. It is believed she tortured these poor souls in the cruelest of ways, including beating victims till death, starvation, sexual and physical abuse, performing surgery which often led to victim’s death, and biting the flesh of faces, arms and other bodily parts. The countess supposedly drank and bathed in the blood of these victims in order to maintain her youthful appearance, but this was never proven. Elizabeth was never convicted or tried for her crimes. However she was placed under house arrest in 1610. Elizabeth remained imprisoned in a set of rooms in the Cesjte Castle for the remainder of her life. She died there four years later. Due to the number of murders she committed, Elizabeth Bathory has been labeled as one of the most prolific female serial killers in history, and thus earning and being remembered by such titles as the “Blood Countess” and “Countess Dracula.” -- source link
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