The Bloody Countess Elisabeth Báthory of Ecsed was a Hun | Honest historian
The Bloody Countess
Elisabeth Báthory of Ecsed was a Hungarian countess of the famous Báthory family and the richest Hungarian aristocrat of her time, known for her serial murders of young girls.
Báthory is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the woman who committed the greatest number of murders, the exact number of her victims is unknown. The countess and four of her servants were accused of torturing and murdering hundreds of girls between 1585 and 1610. The highest number of victims named in the Báthory trial was 650. Despite all the evidence against Elizabeth, the influence of her family prevented the Blood Countess from standing trial. In December 1610 Báthory was imprisoned in the Hungarian castle of Čachtice, where the Countess was walled up in a room until her death four years later.
The story of Báthory's serial murders and brutality is confirmed by the testimony of more than 300 witnesses and victims, as well as by physical evidence and the presence of horribly mutilated bodies of already dead, dying and imprisoned girls found during the Countess' detention.
