The Blood Countess: Elizabeth Bathory
Not Just the Tudors
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A Portrait of a Young Hungarian Countess
Erzabeth Batori was born on the 7th of August 1560 to Jörg and Anna Batori in Nir Batori, northeastern Hungary. Her parents were Hungarian aristocrats from two different branches of the Batori family. We know little about Erzabeth's upbringing, although tens of preserved letters from adulthood indicate that she was literate and spoke Hungarian, Slovak, Greek, Latin and German. When she was 12 years old, Erzabeth was formally engaged to marry 17-year-old Count Ferrenz Nadusdjd,. A year later, she was sent to live with Ferrenz's family to learn how to manage a household from
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