Where Were Elizabeth Bathory’s Children At The Time She Was Committing Those Murderous Acts?
It is my understanding that while Elizabeth Bathory or the “Blood Countess” was married to Ferenc Nadadsy, she bore four children. However, in all my reseaching I could not come up with the whereabouts of these children at the time their mother was reputated to being a murderous and sadistic torturer.
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Posted on February 7th, 2010 at 8:23 am
I’ve been googling, and not much is revealed about her children’s whereabouts.
However, Countess Bathory seems to have been a good and protective mother. In this site it mentions Helena Jo, her children’s wet nurse, which would imply that, like all other noble babies, they would be given to other women to nurse, as it was not considered suitable in those times for a woman to suckle her baby herself. So I would think that the children would be safe in the castle’s nursery with their nurses.http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A593084
Judging from letters she wrote to relatives, she was a good wife and protective mother, which was not surprising since nobles usually treated immediate family very differently from the lower servants and peasant classes. http://www.geocities.com/wanwarlock/bath…
By 1600 Elizabeth’s husband was dead, and she became the true mistress of her isolated domain. Once she’d divested herself of her children, who were sent to relatives, and her mother-in-law, the Countess was even freer to do as she pleased. It was around this time that she supposedly acquired her taste for blood. http://www.essortment.com/all/elizabethb…
Elizabeth gave birth to a son and two daughters in her late twenties. Luckily, the children were not included in her tortures, as victims or spectators. They were quickly given to the care of governesses and wet nurses. It’s unlikely that their mother’s sadistic ways were ever witnessed by them. They were, with the exception of their mother’s strange fetishes, perhaps a normal noble family of the time.http://www.geocities.com/tragicpixie/his…
Hope this helps.
Posted on February 7th, 2010 at 11:36 am
http://hjem.get2net.dk/the_cellar/bathor…http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_kille…http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A593084 says
After ten years of marriage Elizabeth finally gave her husband children; three daughters and at last a son, delivered in quick succession from 1585 onwards. By all reports, Elizabeth was an excellent and doting mother.http://www.nndb.com/people/263/000112924…
Lists the childrens names and birthdates.http://www.weird-encyclopedia.com/Bathor… says:
Elizabeth became pregnant as the result of a brief affair with a peasant man in 1574. When her condition became evident, she was sequestereduntil the baby’s birth, due to her engagement to Count Ferenc Nadasdy. They were married in May of 1575.http://bathory.org/shyla.html
1614: On July 31 Elizabeth (age 54) dictated her last will and testament to two cathedral priests from the Esztergom bishopric. She wished that what remained of her family holdings be divided up equally among her children, her son Paul and his descendants were the basic inheritors though.http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th…http://www.codrescu.com/books/bloodcount…