Does anyone know ANYTHING about Elizabeth Bathory?

Question

I have researched her alot and I get the SAME thing over and over again!I wanna know id like she had any kids and stuff like that.

Answer 1

Elizabeth Báthory was born in Nyírbátor, Hungary, on August 7, 1560 and died on August 21, 1614 in Čachtice (Csejte, Schächtitz), present-day Slovakia.

She spent her childhood at Ecsed Castle. At the age of 11 she was engaged to Ferencz Nádasdy and moved to Nádasdy Castle in Sárvár. In 1575, she married Nádasdy in Vranov nad Topľou. Nadasdy took on her last name because of her status. In 1578, he became the chief commander of Hungarian troops, leading them to war against the Turks. He was considered brave as well as cruel. It is said that he also was violent with his wife. The Turks feared him and called him the "Black Beg".

Nádasdy’s wedding gift to Báthory was his home, Čachtice Castle (situated in the Carpathians in present-day western Slovakia near Trenčín, then part of Royal Hungary), together with the Čachtice country house and seventeen adjacent villages. The castle itself was surrounded by a village and agricultural lands, bordered by outcrops of the Carpathian Mountains. In 1602, Báthory’s husband finally bought the castle from Emperor Rudolf II, so that it became a private property of the Nádasdy family. With her husband away at war, Báthory ran the castle's affairs and local defences. An educated woman who could read and write in four languages, her job was to keep the Turks away from Vienna at the behest of the Habsburgs who ruled Royal Hungary.[2] The threat was significant, for the village of Cachtice had been plundered by the Turks in 1599.[3] Sárvár was even more dangerous, as it was located near the border that divided Royal Hungary and Ottoman Hungary. This was during the height of the Long War, the result of which kept the Turks back from Vienna for several decades and rendered them a minimal threat to the West during the duration of the Thirty Years War.

Báthory had six children. Two of them died at an early age:

Anastasia Báthory, illegitimate daughter (born 1574).
Anna Nádasdy (born c. 1585).
Katalin (Katherina) Nádasdy (born c. 1594).
Miklós.
Orsolya (Orsika) Nádasdy.
Paul Nádasdy (1598 - 1650).
Her husband died in either 1602 or 1604. Various sources attribute his death to an illness, to a murder at the hands of a prostitute, or to an injury sustained in battle. Another view holds that he was murdered by General Giorgio Basta, whose reign of terror in Transylvania at that time led to a sharp decline in the Báthory family's power. Hapsburg Emperor Matthias II refused to pay her the debt he owed Nadasdy.

Based on the letters Elizabeth has left behind, we know of several instances where she intervened on behalf of destitute women, including a woman whose husband was captured by the Turks and a woman whose daughter was raped and pregnant.

It is believed that Elizabeth Báthory tortured and killed an indefinite number of young women, though it is often cited as being in the hundreds, between the years 1585 and 1610. Although her husband and her relatives knew about her sadistic inclination, they did not directly intervene. After her husband's death any restraints he may have imposed on her (or she on herself) seemed completely removed. It should be noted that besides supporting Giorgio Basta's marauding in Transylvania, the Habsburg King also refused to pay her the debt he had owed her fallen husband, this may have caused a change in her already violent character.

Her initial victims were local peasant girls, many of whom were lured to Čachtice by offers of well-paid work and the opportunity to attend a sort of 'finishing school'. Later she may have begun to kill daughters of lower gentry, who were sent to her castle by their parents to learn high society etiquette. Abductions seem to have occurred as well.

Answer 2

Countess Bathory had no children and as far as I know, she was never married. In doing research on her you always get the same information on her shocking acts of bloodlust, the abuse of others and her obssession with the appearance of youth and beauty but you never find background info on what may have motivated her in life and family history of abuse or mental illness. I too would like more info, for example was she physically or sexually abused in some way as a child? Did a mother or other female figure exemplify an obssession with appearances, or was it a male influence that spurred her strive for beauty and youth? Good question.

Answer 3

she was a crazy person, but also a royal, so she got away with it for a long time.

her belief was that if she bathed or consumed the blood of virgin girls it would keep her young - so she started a school of sorts, to be sure she had a steady supply of young girls.

at some point, she further decided that it would be the blood of noble girl virgins who would give her what she needed for eternal youth and here is where she got herself into a lot of trouble and was eventually tried and put to death.

like gilles de rais, it's odd what nobles could get away with during the medieval times - killing the kids of peasants was pretty much ok, as long as you were a noble - but if you strayed beyond that, you could get into trouble.

bathory was probably certifiable and should have been put in an insane asylum...

Answer 4

lsn't she the lady who killed all these girls to get their blood because she thought it would make her young again. She eventualy got caught and was bricked up in a room in her castle since she was a countess. She like the feminie version of vlad the impaler. I was waatching a documentery about her and one of her decendants went back to the town were she took her victims from and finally apoligised for what his ancestor had done. It also said she had affairs with serving boys at her castle and was pregnant by the time she was 13!, although the baby was taken away, I don't know what happened to it

Answer 5

http://www.abacom.com/~jkrause/bathory.html

this site has a lot of info. about her on it, I'm going to guess that she had no kids since they would have hindered her appereance which she valued so much. perhaps she felt so ugly and aged because she was married off at only 15, she was forced to grow up quickly and in this way felt older than she really was. These are all speculations but judging by the info. that I have found speculations seem to be the only things that we are able to derieve from the info.

Answer 6

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