
The Blood Countess Elizabeth Báthory
Noble Blood
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Elizabeth Bathery's Murder
In 16 o four, after 29 years of marriage, count ferrence died while off fighting the ottoman invasion of hungary. And elizabeth bathery became one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in the kingdom. Her estates were huge, stretching from the west to the southeast of the hungarian kingdom. If the batheris wanted, she could grant gabor safe passage across the entire kingdom,. giving him access to possibly claiming the polish throne, or even the hungarian throne. In truth, according to the documentation of thurzo's secretary at the time, bathery was actually eating dinner.
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