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Based on vampire myths, how are Vlad III Tepes and Elizabeth Bathory related?

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how did they meet and how their love story goes?

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  1. Countess Elizabeth Bartley ("The Vampire Countess"), daughter of Mircea Dracula and niece of Wallachian Prince Vlad Dracula III, was found kneeling over the dead body of an England townsperson, blood dripping from her exposed fangs. She was tried as a vampire witch, convicted, and burned at the stake. Centuries later, a Transylvanian noblewoman, Countess Elizabeth Bathory (also known as Erzsébet Báthory), who lived from 1560 to 1614, followed in Bartley’s footsteps. This woman, historically referred to as “The Blood Countess,” more than often bathed in blood, thinking that it would make her younger. She had many of her own servant girls killed simply to obtain more blood to soak in.Vlad Dracula III, the "Son of the Dragon," is born to Prince Vlad "The Dragon/The Devil" Dracul II of Wallachia and Princess Cneajna of Transylvania in the Transylvanian town of Schassburg/Sighisoara. In the decades to come he became the warlord prince/voivode of Wallachia in 1448, from 1456-1462, and finally in 1476. A member of the Order of the Dragon, he was sworn against the Ottoman Turks, with whom he had been forced to live with his brother Radu for some twelve years as children as part of the terms for the sparing of his father's life by the sultan. Eventually Vlad Dracula claimed his birthright as prince of Wallachia for reigns that have immortalized him as a Romanian hero, but it was through his cruel means by which he earned the name Tepes; "The Impaler," for which would historically nickname him "Vlad the Impaler." Vlad Dracula was said to have been responsible for the deaths of over 100,000, both criminals and his sworn Turkish enemies alike.


  2. Elizabeth Bathory was not related to Vlad Tepes. Her great uncle fought against the Turks with him in the 1400s.  Elizabeth (aka Erzsebet) was not born until around 1560.  Also, there's a new book out about Elizabeth Bathory, in case you're interested. It's called, "Bathory: Memoir of a Countess" and the ISBN is 1439201749.  It's an entertaining read based on historical facts.

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