Elizabeth Bathory Research Paper

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Reportedly the most prolific female serial killer in recorded history, Elizabeth Bathory was born into Hungarian aristocracy as Erzebet Bathory de Ecsed in the year 1560. She received a privileged upbringing which included a superior education. In what was probably an arranged marriage, she wed Count Ferenc Nadasdy, scion of a rival family of nobles, in 1575. She was fifteen years old. While he would command Hungarian troops against the Ottomans, she remained at their castle in charge of his land holdings and business dealings, as well as governing the locals. After what was probably a series of miscarriages, she produced several heirs before her husband died of a debilitating malady in 1604. The children were raised by servants, as Bathory herself had been. Already accustomed to governing Nasasdy's holdings during his absences, the Countess now found herself the ruler of large estates of strategic importance in what is now central Romania, but was then the…show more content…
Supposedly, Bathory would capture and torture young women in order to bathe in their blood. The theory presented was that the Countess would bathe in the blood of her victims in the hopes that it would rejuvenate her and restore her fading youthful appearance. Allegations were made that the young females suffered acts of sadism such as mutilation of hands and feet, burning of flesh with heated metal tongs, torture with needles, and having skin bitten from their faces and breasts, to name just a few. Thurzo himself appeared at Bathory's castle on December 30, 1610, to arrest Bathory and four servants. Although he later claimed to have to have literally caught the Countess “red-handed” in the midst of an act of torture, Palatine Thurzo actually took her into custody prior to discovery and presentation of her
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