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30 apr 2024 · Elizabeth Báthory (born August 7, 1560, Nyírbátor, Hungary—died August 21, 1614, Castle Čachtice, Čachtice, Hungary [now in Slovakia]) was a Hungarian countess who purportedly tortured and murdered hundreds of young women in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Richard Pallardy
- Elizabeth Báthory was a Hungarian countess who purportedly tortured and murdered more than 600 young women in the 16th–17th century. While historic...
- Elizabeth Báthory was born in 1560 to Protestant nobility in Hungary. Her family controlled Transylvania, and her uncle Stephen Báthory was king of...
- On December 30, 1609, Elizabeth Báthory and her servants were arrested. The servants, accused of aiding her in torture and murder, were put on tria...
17 apr 2024 · Gábor Bethlen was a Calvinist prince of Transylvania and briefly titular king of Hungary (August 1620 to December 1621), in opposition to the Catholic emperor Ferdinand II. Born into a leading Protestant family of northern Hungary, Bethlen as a young man was sent to the court of Prince Sigismund.
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30 apr 2024 · Sigismund III Vasa (born June 20, 1566, Gripsholm, Swed.—died April 30, 1632, Warsaw, Pol.) was the king of Poland (1587–1632) and of Sweden (1592–99) who sought to effect a permanent union of Poland and Sweden but instead created hostile relations and wars between the two states lasting until 1660. The elder son of King John ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 mag 2024 · List of state leaders in 16th-century South Asia. List of governors of dependent territories in the 16th century. This is a list of state leaders in the 16th century (1501–1600) AD, except for the leaders within the Holy Roman Empire, and the leaders within South Asia .
1 mag 2024 · John Sigismund's most significant action was his conversion from Lutheranism to Calvinism, after he had earlier equalized the rights of Catholics and Protestants in the Duchy of Prussia under pressure from the King of Poland.
2 mag 2024 · Who was Countess Erzsébet Báthory? A prototype vampire? A religious – or political – victim? Sonia Velton, author of The Nightingale’s Castle, investigates the real woman behind the myth.
4 giorni fa · Habsburg monarchy. Russian Empire. Kingdom of Prussia. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, [b] formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, [c] or simply Poland–Lithuania, was a bi- confederal [11] state, sometimes called a federation, [12] of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was ...
