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Elizabeth Bathory The Amazing Lady

Elizabeth Bathory, or Countess Elizabeth Bathory, was a wealthy and powerful Hungarian noblewoman. Her uncle was king of Poland, and her nephew was a prince of Transylvania.

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Elizabeth Bathory The Amazing Lady

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  1. Elizabeth Bathory The Amazing Lady

  2. What happened to Elizabeth Bathory? • Elizabeth Bathory, or Countess Elizabeth Bathory, was a wealthy and powerful Hungarian noblewoman. Her uncle was king of Poland, and her nephew was a prince of Transylvania. In 1610, she was accused of horrible serial murders and locked up in her home, Castle practice, where she stayed until she died. Bathory is thought to have killed at least 600 people, making her the most prolific female murderer in Guinness World Records. Called her the “Blood Countess” because of what she did, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula may have been based on her. But it’s possible that Bathory didn’t do all the things that have been blamed on her.

  3. Early Years: • Bathory was born in Hungary on August 7, 1560, in the town of Nyrbátor. Bathory got engaged to Count FerencNadasdy when she was 11 years old. She was thought to be a beautiful and smart girl. Some stories about her life say that she had a child with a man who wasn’t her husband before she got married.

  4. Marriage: • On May 8, 1575, Bathory married Nadasdy when she was only 15 years old. After ten years, in 1585, they had their first child. Five children were born to Bathory. Two of them died as babies, but two daughters and a son made it to adulthood.

  5. Involved in the Murders: • Then, three women and one man who worked for Bathory were taken into custody, questioned, and tortured. At the beginning of January 1611, they went to court. These servants denied being involved in the murders, but they did say that they buried more than one body, though the number of bodies they buried varied from 36 to 51. Not only did they blame their mistress and each other, but they also blamed Darvulia, a dead servant who had worked as a maid and a governess. Two of the women and the man who worked for them were given death sentences, which were carried out quickly. The fourth was not put to death right away, and no one knows what happened to her after that. Another woman was soon killed, too. She was said to have used magic to help Bathory.

  6. Bathory was Totally Innocent: • But it’s not likely that Elizabeth Bathory was totally innocent. In 1602, a priest wrote a letter in which he talked about how cruel Bathory and her husband were to the servants who worked for them. Bathory’s case could have been helped by true stories about how harshly she treated people from the lower classes. Even though it wasn’t against the law at the time, and Elizabeth Bathory was only punished because some of her victims were said to be noblewomen, she was still responsible for a lot of broken lives.

  7. Death: • On August 21, 1614, the body of 54-year-old Elizabeth Bathory was found in Castle practice, which is now in Slovakia. She had been locked up there since 1610. She was first buried in the crypt on her property, but it’s likely that her body was moved later.

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