The Blood Countess, Elizabeth Bathory #CousinoftheWeek

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed (Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta Bátoriová in Slovak; 7 August 1560 – 21 August 1614) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family of Hungarian nobility. Although in modern times she has been labelled the most prolific female serial killer in history, her guilt is debated. She is nevertheless remembered as the "Blood Countess" or "Blood Queen."

After her husband's death, she and four collaborators were accused of torturing and killing hundreds of girls, with one witness attributing to them over 650 victims, though the number for which they were convicted was 80. Elizabeth herself was neither tried nor convicted. In 1610, however, she was imprisoned in the Csejte Castle, now in Slovakia and known as Čachtice, where she remained bricked in a set of rooms until her death four years later.

Later writings about the case have led to legendary accounts of the Countess bathing in the blood of virgins in order to retain her youth and subsequently also to comparisons with Vlad III the Impaler of Wallachia, on whom the fictional Count Dracula is partly based, and to modern nicknames of the Blood Countess and Countess Dracula. 

http://www.geni.com/people/Countess-Erzs%C3%A9bet-Elizabeth-B%C3%A1thory/340215485610011209 

Countess Erzsébet - Elizabeth Báthory is my 9th cousin 15 times removed.

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his mother →  Jeanne de Valois
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her mother →  ÁRPÁD(házi) II. András - Andrew II, King of Hungary
her father →  ÁRPÁD(házi) András, Prince of Hungary
his son → ÁRPÁD(házi) Erzsébet ► Szabina, hercegnő / Princess
his daughter →  Erzsébet Darai de Dáró
her daughter →  Anna Medgyesi (Moricz)
her daughter → Szaniszló Báthori de Somlyó
her son →  István II Báthory de Somlyó
his son →  Miklós Báthory
his son →  István Báthory
his son →  Anna Báthory
his daughter → Countess Erzsébet - Elizabeth Báthory
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