subject: Elizabeth Bathory: One Of The Most Famous Murderers Of History [print this page] Countess Elizabeth Bathory is one of the most famous murderers of history appears in Hungarian and Slovak. It is often suggested by the nickname "lady bloody Csejte (Aceachtice)," named after the castle (in Royal Hungary, today part of Slovakia ), where she lived most of his life.
After the death of her husband, she and four alleged collaborators were accused of torture and murder of numerous girls and young women whose number remains uncertain (see chapter on this issue). By 1610, she was imprisoned in the castle aachtice, where she remained until his death, after four years. His noble birth he avoided a trial and execution.
The Bathory case has inspired many legends and stories in which she would have bathed in the blood of his victims to keep its youth-which has earned him nicknames such as bloody or Countess Countess Dracula. But these legends have been largely dismissed by modern historians (see chapters Charges and Folklore and popular culture devoted to this issue). They still persist in popular belief (see the chapter).
At the age of 11 years, Elizabeth was betrothed to Ferenc and entrusted his future stepmother, Orsolya Nadasdy, which prepares its duty as wife and mother, the aim being to give heirs to the lineage of Nadasdy.
She moved to the castle of Sajr. She would have had an affair with a peasant, giving birth to an illegitimate daughter, stillborn. In 1575, Lage 15, she married F. in Vranov nad Topou .The castle ruins aceachtice at nightfall.
The wedding gift that is offered Ferenc Aceachtice Castle, located in the Carpathians near, surrounded of a village and fields. NADASDY has purchased Lempereur Rudolph II, Holy Roman Empire, making it a property of the family.
In 1578, he becomes commander in chief of the Hungarian troops, leading Quil during the war against the Turks. It is considered a brave man, but cruel. During the absences of her husband, Elizabeth Baithory managed business. During the first ten years of their marriage, Elizabeth had no children because she and Ferenc are rarely together. In 1585, a daughter, Anna, was born. A girl, Orsolya, and a son, Andrei, follow, but both die in infancy. Finally, a daughter, Katarina, and a son, are born, the latter in 1598. According to several sources, Elizabeth was a loving mother and devoted.
During the long war against the Turks (1593-1606), she is responsible for the defense of her husband's properties . The threat is serious, because the village of Aceachtice was plundered by the Turks in 1599 , while Sajr, located near the border between Hungary Royal Hungary and Ottoman is at greater risk yet.
Elizabeth is an educated woman who could read and write in four languages . Accordance with the letters which had left it several instances where she intervened on behalf of destitute women, including a woman whose husband had been captured by the Turks, and a woman whose daughter had been raped and pregnant.
Her husband dies in 1604, At the age of 47 years. His death could be related to a wound received in battle, but other sources, Quil claim was murdered by a prostitute, or by General Giorgio Basta, whose reign of terror in Transylvania led to a decline in the power Baithory family.
Between 1602 and 1604, the Lutheran minister Magyari complain to both publicly and in the court of Vienna, after rumors had spread about atrocities by Elizabeth Bathory .
The authorities took some time before responding to complaints Magyari. Finally, in 1610, King Matthias I, Holy Roman Empire, the investigations will Gyargy Thurz, Palatine of Hungary . In March 1610, Thurz ordered two notaries to collect evidence . Before For having obtained results , Thurz began negotiating with the son and his two d alisabeth fine son.
A trial and execution would have caused a public scandal and disgraced a noble and influential family (who, lepoque, reign over Transylvania); capital d alisabeth - considerable - have been seized by the crown. Consensus finding Thurz gets house arrest for Elizabeth Bathory.
