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Elizabeth Báthory
Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and serial killer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary. She has been labelled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer, though the precise number of her victims is debated. Báthory and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing h…
Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed was a Hungarian noblewoman and serial killer from the Báthory family of nobility in the Kingdom of Hungary. She has been labelled by Guinness World Records as the most prolific female murderer, though the precise number of her victims is debated. Báthory and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of young women between 1585 and 1609. The highest number of victims cited during Báthory's trial was 650. However, this number comes from the claim by a serving girl named Susannah that Jakab Szilvássy, Countess Báthory's court official, had seen the figure in one of Báthory's private books. The book was never revealed, and Szilvássy never mentioned it in his testimony. Despite the evidence against Elizabeth, her family's influence kept her from facing trial. She was imprisoned in December 1609 within Csetje Castle, in Upper Hungary, and held in solitary confinement in a windowless room until her death five years later.
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- Born: Aug 7, 1560 · Nyírbátor, Hungary
- Died: Aug 21, 1614 · Čachtice, Slovakia
- Spouse: Ferenc Nádasdy (m. 1575 - 1604)
- Related movies: Bathory
- Children: Anna Nádasdy (Daughter) · András Nádasdy (Son) · Anastasia Báthory (Daughter) · Miklós Nádasdy (Son) · György Nádasdy (Son)
- Parents: Anna Báthory (Mother) · George VI Báthory (Father)
Timeline
1569: The castle had been bought by his mother in 1569 and given to Nádasdy, who transferred it to Elizabeth during their nuptials situated in the Little Carpathians near Trencsén (now Trenčín), together with the Csejte country house and 17 adjacent villages.
1571: Elizabeth was engaged at age 11 to Ferenc Nádasdy, the son of Baron Tamás Nádasdy de Nádasd et Fogarasföld and Orsolya Kanizsay in what was probably a political arrangement within the circles of the aristocracy.
1575: The couple married when she was 15 (and he was aged 19) at the palace of Varannó on 8 May 1575.
1585: Her child, Anna Nádasdy, was born in 1585 and was later to become the wife of Nikola VI Zrinski.
1604: Elizabeth's husband, Ferenc Nádasdy, died on 4 January 1604 at the age of 48.
1609: She was imprisoned in December 1609 within Csetje Castle, Upper Hungary (now in Slovakia), and held in solitary confinement in a room whose windows were walled up where she remained imprisoned until her death five years later.
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