Elizabeth was engaged to Ferenc Nádasdy
at age 12, in what was probably a political
arrangement within the circles of the
aristocracy. Two years after the
arrangement of their marriage, Elizabeth, at
thirteen years old, became pregnant by one
of the servants at Castle Sárvár, named
László Bende. Although Ferenc was not
more than eighteen years, he delivered a
blunt punishment to the young server.
Ferenc had him castrated and, immediately
afterwards, thrown to a pack of dogs.

Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed
( Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian, Alžbeta
Bátoriová in Slovak ; 8 August 1560 – 21
August 1614) was a countess from the
renowned Báthory family of nobility in the
Kingdom of Hungary . She has been labelled
the most prolific female serial killer in
history

According to all testimony, her initial
victims were the adolescent daughters of
local peasants, many of whom were lured
to Csejte by offers of well-paid work as
maidservants in the castle. Later, she is
said to have begun to kill daughters of the
lesser gentry , who were sent to her
gynaeceum by their parents to learn courtly
etiquette. Abductions were said to have
occurred as well. [11] The atrocities
described most consistently included severe
beatings, burning or mutilation of hands,
biting the flesh off the faces, arms and
other body parts, freezing or starving to
death. [11] The use of needles was also
mentioned