Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary Thesis Statement: Through her intriguing personality, physical attributes, political intuitiveness, and her distorted moral/family values, Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary has led the life of one of the most fascinating yet neurotic leaders in all of Transylvania’s history. I. Countess Elizabeth Bathory of Hungary, born in 1560, retained a childhood of sheer disgust hidden behind the curtain of royalty. A. During her childhood, she witnessed horrific trials and sentences …showed first 75 words of 451 total…

…showed last 75 words of 451 total…was never present at her trials due to her nobility. She was eventually sentenced under solitary confinement. E. She was found dead in 1614, in her room. Concluding Statement: It was Countess Elizabeth Bathory’s obsession for comely attributes that caused this neurotic and mentally displaced individual, hidden behind nobility and a countess’ guise, to kill 650 virgin women. Her name in Transylvania continues to go down in history to this day, known as the “Blood Countess.”