Elizabeth Bathory, The Blood Countess of Hungary.
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Elizabeth Bathory was born on August 7th 1560 to the Hungarian noble family of Bathory, who owned land in the kingdom of Hungary, which is now Slovakia. Elizabeth spent her childhood in Esced Castle alongside several siblings including an older brother called Stephan (1555-1605) who would go onto serve as a Judge Royal as an adult. During her childhood, Elizabeth suffered from seizures which some suppose has possible ties to epilepsy.
When Elizabeth was thirteen she was engaged to Count Fenerec Nadasdy (1555-1604) a son of a noble family from Transylvania, however a year before they married, Elizabeth supposedly gave birth too a child after sleeping with a peasant boy. The child was given to a trusted servant and taken to Wallachia. Evidence of the pregnancy was revealed later on, however due to various rumours of the peasantry at the time. This pregnancy was disputed.
Elizabeth and Fenerec would go onto marry and over the course of the next 29 years would have five children, Anna (1585-unknown), Orsolya (1590-unknown), Kaitlyn (1594-unknown), Andras (1596-1603) and Pal/Paul (1598-1660). Chronicles do state there was a sixth child named Miklos however this is disputed. Fenerec would pass away on January 4th 1604 of an unknown Illness which affected him for several months before he died.
From 1590 servants and peasant girls began going missing whilst in Elizabeth's care, however they were merely treated as minor accusations, until 1604 as several girls of minor nobility began going missing too. Elizabeth and four of her servants were accused of and put on trial for the torturing and murder of hundreds of girls and woman from 1590 to 1610. The servants were executed whilst Elizabeth was imprisoned within the Castle of Csejte (Cachtice) -the castle she was gifted as a wedding present from her husband- and remained there until she died in her sleep on August 21st 1614.
The charges levelled against Elizabeth Bathory have been described by many historians as a Witch-Hunt. In 1989, a writer named Michael Farin said that the accusations against the countess were supported by the testimony of 300 people, some describing physical evidence and the presence of mutilated dead, dying and imprisoned girls found when Elizabeth was arrested. Various recent sources claim that the accusations were a spectacle meant to destroy her family's influence in the area and Elizabeth's standing as a rich single woman, this was due to politics in the area. The Bathory's were considered a threat to local political interests of their neighbours including the Habsburg Empire.
During the early 1980's, Scholars questioned the truth of the claims against Elizabeth Bathory citing the local political and religious climates in the area such wars with The Ottoman Empire and the Habsburg empire (and their expansion) And the spread of protestantism. Since Elizabeth Bathory became a wealthy woman when her husband died. The investigation into Elizabeth Bathory's crimes were ultimately sparked by a Lutheran Minister Istvan Magyari and another Lutheran named Thurzo.
The stories around Elizabeth Bathory quickly became part of the local then national folklore. Legends latched onto the more bloody aspects of the story, turning Elizabeth into a woman with vampiric tendencies. Such as the tale that she bathed in the blood of virgin girls to retain her youth, however the story was recorded as good hundred years after her death and were based purely on rumors. Despite the stories being repeated during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries by at least three historians. Modern historians consider them unreliable. The nicknames of Blood Countess and Countess Dracula were tied to Elizabeth Bathory.
Some people insist that Elizabeth Bathory's story was part of the inspiration for Bran Stokers 1897 novel Dracula although his notes on the novel provide no evidence direct or otherwise to support the hypothesis. However, She was part of the inspiration for Lady Dimitriscu from the game Resident Evil Village (RE8).
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