Did you think you already know everything about the Báthor family?
Erzsébet Báthory was only one of the infamous family members.
Maybe 20 years ago I got my hands on a book called The Infamous Baths.
The work of renowned researchers and medical historians. It analyzes the lives of four very ill-remembered members of a family with an ancient, glorious past.
Descendants have endowed them with all sorts of sonorous adjectives, and the world — often wrongly — thinks these four people are devilishly evil.
"The Hungarian Borgias", beasts, dragon breeds!
I brought three of the four Báthori - or Báthory - today.
Here is the "Monster of Csejthe", the "bloody countess" , Erzsébet (Elisabeth) Báthori.(He wrote his name like this, didn't use the fashionable letter 'y' instead of 'i')
Everyone knows the story of Elisabeth. Or you think you know him.
Historians, of course, have always disputed the legend of bathing in blood. Biological inability because the spilled blood coagulates. But the superstition found an explanation for everything.
According to the author of the above-mentioned book, Elizabeth was probably a more sadistic man who, abusing his social position, was free to exercise his sick desires.
However, recent research - a new portrait has come out in the meantime - is seen as a victim of a conceptual lawsuit.
Whose only sin was his tremendous fortune.
(And his influential, noble family, of course. Elizabeth's several male relatives were the prince and voivode of Transylvania, and one of his brothers, István, was elected king of Poland.)
Researchers already know that life imprisonment as a punishment is also false information.
(According to contemporary rumors, Elizabeth was taken to a windowless room and the door of the room was walled in. Only a small gap was left in the wall where food was given to her.)
In fact, no verdicts were handed down, no lawsuits. After the execution of the servants accused of complicity, Elizabeth lived in her own castle (Csejthe), under house arrest. He died at the age of 53 years.
(Elizabeth's dress is unfortunately not perfect. The texture of the mesh is very distorted at the top, but I definitely wanted a collar like this.)
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Gábor (Gabriel), the "Cassanova of Transylvania".
Gábor Báthory was the prince of Transylvania, you can read more about his reign here.His father, István (Stephen) Báthori, was the cousin of Elizabeth.
(In some places, it is mistakenly written that Erzsébet Báthori was the aunt of Gábor, and Anna)
One of my favorite readings is one of the heroes of the novel
The Devil’s Chariot, a tragically destined young murdered prince who really didn’t set limits on his desires. Her favorite little one kept a list of the prince’s lovers, whose main purpose in life was to seduce a thousand women. The writer, although he did not like the Báthory family, did not deny that it was all a consequence of free, immoral behavior, privileged noble upbringing, and "bad company."
Gábor was only 24 years old when he was killed during a rebellion. According to legend, his corpse lay buried in the place of his death for 15 years, until he was finally buried on the instructions of his successor, Gábor Bethlen.
(It may seem like a generous gesture, although according to some sources, the instigator of the rebels and the cause of Gábor's death was Gábor Bethlen)
I made the "version" of Gábor's sims based on the bust at his grave.
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Anna, the incest, child killer, witch
Official biography, Wikipedia
He was born in 1594 as the child of István Báthory of Somlyó (1553–1601), chief of Kraszna County and Zsuzsanna Bebek of Pelsőczi († 1595). After the early deaths of his mother and father, he and his brothers came under the guardianship of his relative, István Báthori, a court judge, who adopted the orphaned children, on the condition that they convert to the Protestant faith. However, his guardian died four years later, on July 25, 1605, leaving a huge fortune to the Báthory orphans. Anna's brother, Gábor István Bocskai, went to the court of Transylvania in Košice as an expectant of the princely throne.
Anna married Dénes Bánffy in Losonc on 11 November 1608 in Cluj-Napoca, but she remained a widow in 1612 and married Zsigmond Jósika the following year. He was sentenced in 1621 to death and confiscation of his property for his immoral, adulterous lifestyle, killing his child, and witchcraft. His only son, Gábor Jósika, grew up in the court of palatine Miklós Esterházy. He was the ancestor of the Jósika family in Branyicska, who were promoted to baronhood in 1698.
(One of his descendants was the first Hungarian "betseller" writer of the 19th century, Miklós Jósika.)
According to László Nagy (Hungarian poet, translator, writer), the lawsuit against Anna Báthory, like the lawsuits against [i]Kata Török[/i] and [i]Mrs. Imreffy (One of Gábor's lovers)[/i], was a conceptual procedure, which was in fact aimed at acquiring the estates of the women. Eventually, Anna Báthory was pardoned by Gábor Bethlen, who, according to a contemporary account, tried to seduce her in Nagykereki Castle, and was deprived of her possessions alone. He probably fled to Poland and then returned to Transylvania after the death of Gábor Bethlen to recover his confiscated property. From 1636 he lived on the bread of grace in the court of palatine Miklós Esterházy in Hungary.
With whom did the sister of "Cassanova of Transylvania" commit an incest?In the novel The Devil's Chariot, for the first time, they only slept side by side because Anna was afraid in their new home, at the strict, Protestant uncle. However, Gábor's intention to protect his sister was misunderstood by the maids.
When Gábor went to the prince's court, Anna was left alone in her uncle's castle, which stood in a swampy countryside.
He lived freely, no one raised him.
In one of the chapters of the novel, a visitor arrives at the castle. The famous beautiful woman, the illustrated figure of the imperial court, Erzsébet Báthori. Anna walks into her messy outfit, messy, with a wreath of wildflowers on her head to greet her. The "aunt" and her entourage laugh at her appearance.
"Look, little bog witch, or maybe it's a fairy?"Anna is offended, but the "aunt" quickly reassures her.
"... and when this beautiful woman left, Anna no longer longed for the swamp. She already wanted to be a woman of doom, deciding the fate of men and empires as she pleased ...
Just like Countess Elizabeth "
The Devil's Chariot is also the name of a plant in Hungary. "The flowering period is from July to the end of September. In the fall, the whole plant breaks off at its own base and rolls like a 'devil's chariot', chasing it from the wind."
The title of the novel refers to the fate of Anna. She is a noble girl, the sister of the Prince of Transylvania, a famous beautiful woman, and then a persecuted, plundered, exiled woman whose tomb is not even known.
Just like Countess Elizabeth.
No portraits of him have survived. The writer of the Devil's Chariot describes him as a girl with brown skin, dark hair and eyes.
In the books of another great Hungarian writer, she is a girl with a fragile figure, reddish-blonde, blue eyes and snow-white skin.
So I created Anna based on my imagination and based on her brother's statue.
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At the end of my long chatter, I would like to thank
LizCrea, who made the meshess for Anna's bonnet and Gábor's great outfit.
The sword comes from the Persian collection of
Hriveresse, as it most closely resembles Hungarian sabers.
I also wrapped a tiara in Anna's "luggage" made for
Wawa's great mesh.
Thank you for your attention :)
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