Love it! Especially the sly grin at the end? "Was I a serial killer or wasn't I?" She seems to be asking with her smirk. Happy Halloween! Beautifully done. Thank you so much.
I would love to see you do a colorized version of Rasputin. I want to see what he looks like in color, his eyes, hair, etc. I am wondering if he will look more or less spooky in color. :-) Thanks.
I would like to see a recreation of "Bonnie" Prince Charles Edward Stuart based on the portrait of him that was recently discovered, and his death mask. A lot of witnesses who saw him stated that he was very handsome (some said the most handsome man they had ever seen in their life) and it would be great to see his red hair not covered by a wig. Great work! These just keep getting better!
His brother the Cardinal Duke of York was far more attractive. And frankly a lot of the attraction was in comparison to the Hanoverians who bless them were not especially good looking (except Electress Sophia)
I've never seen a picture/portrait of him that looked anything but effeminate and rather delicate, hardly anyone I would consider "handsome" but I know some people are drawn to that look
Well, you made her look lovely but also those eyes and that little smile have a sinister cast to them. So, you captured in a face the whole ambiguity of her that you had described. Well done indeed.
@@raystargazer7468She was first accused by a Lutheran priest. They took their sectarian squabbles very seriously back in the day. She was a Calvanist. Then Thurzo, who was a very wealthy land owner and buddies with some of her relatives who wanted her wealth which they got. Matthias had instigated some of the original charges against her. He did owe her quite a bit of money and there was some discussion of him seizing her land and holdings. Purportedly the reason Thurzo swooped in and redistributed the land to his allies in her family was to prevent Matthais being able to do this. The bonus for Matthais was that he didn't have to honor his debt to her once she was disgraced. All of this was pretty standard practice for getting hold of a wealthy independent woman's property in the 16th century.
Just started watching your channel. Watched your Cleopatra, Vlad the impaler, and now this one. Great content! Always appreciate channels that bring past history to life. As with this one, the reason why there is no original surviving portrait was because after her trial, all of her portraits were simply discarded and/or destroyed. The reason for this was because she was to be 'erased' from history. The Bathory Family was prestigious, rich, and had a-lot of influences in politics. Gyorgy Thurzo and his entourage of personnel wanted to keep this case on the most low-key and quiet note as possible. Servants, poor people, and villagers often tried to uproar against the nobility for common human rights. (During Elizabeth's time you could definitely abuse your servants without consequence, and you could even get away with killing a few if you lied about the cause.)(Although you as a noble would be responsible for replacing that servants job.) Really dark times. Because the accusations against her were so extreme and serious, the officials decided to have a quick trial and ban her name for 100 years in public society. That's right, it was illegal to say her name in public area for 100 years after she died. It wasn't until the 1710s (100 or so years after she died) that her story was picked up by that jesuit scholar Laszlo something...lol. And HE was the one that added all that extra fake folklore about her, like drinkng blood and bathing in it. Scientifically its impossible to bathe in blood because of coagulation. Otherwise, her story probably would have been lost in history if Laszlo didn't pick it up. As for her image, according to people during her time she was described as having: Raven black hair, a milky white skin tone, some people said she had hazel eyes, others said her eyes were almost black, (if you split the difference she probably had brown eyes.) She probably had a very prominent forehead too, as most noblewomen did. Noblewomen would shave a little bit off their hairline to show they were prominent figures in society. Overall, at least during her young adulthood she was said to have beautiful looks. If we were to assume the portraits today of Erzsebet are infact Erzsebet, then her nose was stout and firm. Personally, one thing that I noticed with all her alleged portraits is her eyes. Her eyes are wide and big. She probably had wide open eyes with a big stare. This case has a-lot to it, if anyone truly wants to find out what happened in terms of, what is fake, what is true, and who she really was I would seriously recommend reading: book:"Infamous lady" author: Kimberly L. Craft. In that book are trial transcripts which are translated to English for the first time. And A-LOT MORE. This is where I got my info regarding Bathory from. Ok all have a great day!😁
10 years ago I reached this conclusion that she may well have been innocent and the evidence for me was astounding, knowing what we do about their period and culture, and how women in general were left unprotected once their husbands or fathers died.
I love the way you showed her with long nails and made her smirk. Make me think your a little morbid which is fine for this specific job. Great work I'm loving it all!!!
The recreation is amazing! The hair and makeup instantly transformed her into a 21st Century person. She even kinda reminds me a little of my secondary school history teacher! I would love to see your recreation of Isabella of Portugal (if you haven't already), supposedly one of the most beautiful women of her time in Europe.
Their flesh was stripped off of them while they were still alive and then they were buried alive. Don't think they needed to worry about Elizabeth going after them. You do need to be a bit better informed. Her "accomplises" were women who had worked with her for years. They provided medical care to woman and educated young women and girls from the dispossessed Slovak Families who had lost all their families possessions to the invading Hungarians. She published books and may have been smuggling books into the country which the authorities forbid. There seems to be a tremendous amount of good that this woman did for her countrymen. She does not deserve to languish as this slanderous creation of Thurzo's her greedy unprincipled neighbor.
Hmmm I agree that a lot of these stories could be fabricated but to say even if she was a serial killer she wouldn’t of bathed in her victims blood is being naive. Serial killers have done disgusting things like wear people’s skin and so on.
Woh. I always thought of her with a kind of regal Kate Winslet look. Your interpretation is nearly exactly as I imagined - amazing (and somewhat chilling) work! Love it!
*I have known about Elizabeth for a long time, as I am a history buff. However, to be honest, the thought that she might be innocent and was framed, is a new one for me. Either way, God knows and that's what's important.*
Here innocence was put into question casue of lgbt diversity woke politics lol. You see it has to be all the evil mens fault she was just an innocent woman being used by evil men...I just do not pay attention
I think a lot of her crimes against her are exaggerated and may have been falsified such as her bathing in blood. However, I do think at the minimum is that she has killed some of those girls although it may be actually lower than the number of murders she was accused of.
@@thomasprent2179 I'm not taking this opportunity to argue with you I just want to know some sources because I'm fascinated by the story I just don't buy it
Binging your videos I love them! Elizabeth Bathory is fascinating to me I sometimes wonder if she'd been framed as she was a powerful woman with male rivals who probably wanted to knock her down
The problem with the history of ALL monarchs is that, at the time, and even now, you have parties with vested interests in finding them guilty or innocent, depending or where their interests lay. I did once work on a magazine which was running a piece on one of her descendants. With a mass murderer as an ancestor he worked, appropriately enough, in the London Financial world. I was the only one in the studio who recognised the Bathory name.
@@fatiht8863 It was a UK financial magazine. It seems one of her descendants was "something in the city". I can't be much more exacting as it was 25+ years ago and I can't recall too much.
Love watching your stuff. It's so interesting. Love the history and the end creation. Your ' brilliant channel is so fascinating. This episode is great, love Sharon 💜
Have you done a modern Anne Boleyn and/or Anne Bonny? Those are my two favorite historical women. I'd love to see them. Bathory is so well done. She's another very interesting character that I've been awake of for a long time.
it's not just hairstyle and makeup she also changes their jawline a lot to the modern standard of beauty (snatched jawline, no round or any sign of double chin) she also tends to change their eyebrow shapes into modern standard of how women do their eyebrows now. Also the shape of the lips is not always the same
I’ve heard of Elizabeth Bathory from watching a documentary about her many many years ago. I always believed she was a serial killer and she is one of the most prolific female serial killers. In my opinion, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so many of her young servant girls disappeared suspiciously while in her presence. She had to have killed them. In the documentary I watched, it stated that she began killing new servants after the passing of her husband. I’ve also heard the myth of her drinking and bathing in her victim’s blood so she’ll stay youthful but I don’t believe it either. The reconstruction of how she looked like is pretty spot on and she looks sadistic and definitely looks like she was a killer. Amazing work!
This "blood libel" against her is false. It is the same accusation used against Jews at the time inorder to dispossess them of their property. Most of these " documentaries are just rehashing of false accusations. The 16th century was not a great moment for wealthy, well educated, independent thinking women. Look at who got her property and poof the money Matthias owed her just vanished after she was disgraced what is it the murder mysteries alway say? " Follow the money"
The framed theory could be true but there has to be some truth to all the accusations. If they wanted to get rid of her they could have came up with something less overkill(pun intended). She is a beautiful lady and as a noble woman in power during that time period her looks would be a great weapon for her. So I am sure she was vain and worried about aging. So one has to think what wouldn't she do to keep her good looks? I don't believe she is entirely innocent nor entirely guilty.
After seeing what outlandish lies my nasty family members have made up about other family members I wouldn't consider it outlandish. I used to believe the stories of Elizabeth Bathory were true, but I now realize she could have been innocent or at worst just an abusive mistress that never actually killed anyone since no actual victims were named in the records. I side more with the abusive mistress part because her servants might have defended her if she had been a kind person, but if she was cruel they would bring back stories and make them sound outlandish due to them not liking her
Property. She owned a lot of it through marriage at a time when women weren't supposed to - and I've heard that with the amount of money she had - something like this is possible in order to actually take it from her. I would have to go back and read about it again, but it seemed a feasible theory as a plot against her.
Actually the obsession with beauty and bathing in blood seems to be the most outlandish thing about the story, the kind of thing that a 16th century man would come up with to explain away a woman's sadistic-sexual murders.
I believe I once read an SF/fantasy/romance short story that used Bathory and Vlad in a sort of lake house concept- a century apart, they somehow could exchange letters. It made both strangely sympathetic. I mean, I was always kind of sympathetic to Vlad, though I wouldn't want a dinner invitation from him.
I love your work, im curious to if you would one day to see one on Emperor Montezuma II of the Mexica (Aztec) there is one painting of him from before the conquest of México, anyways thank you for you work!
Great content ma'am. Thanks to your channel, I get to know more names from the past. If I can suggest, maybe the likes of Billy the Kid or Crispus Attucks can be your next subjects for videos. Thank you.
Please do a facial reconstruction of Saint Cecilia of Rome, I didn’t how Saint Cecilia looks like when she was alive during ancient Roman times and they portrayed her as a ginger, brunette and blonde
The bottom line is if she did any of the stuff shes accused of shes pretty despicable even if mistreating servants was " the norm". How these people dare call themselves " Christians"?
sad there aren't any existing contemporary portraits of her. It did sound like after her "trial" they tried to erase her from history from one documentary I watched. Like you apply put, the records on her are "foggy".
Great. Here is another suggestion, Isabella Jagiello Zapolya, queen of Upper Hungary and princess of Transylvania. 1519-1559, cousin or rather niece of Catarina Sforza.
A fascinating story. She certainly appears to have been a very beautiful woman, and the recreation is lovely. Did she do all those things, or didn't she? I imagine that a few servants etc. vanished with "the Hungarian noblewomen", but it seems that it is not proven at all. Too bad that they didn't get a deposition from Elisabeth herself.
I am learning that with the help of the tarot cards we can possibly see if she was guilty or not and please when doing this remember to smudge your deck as our vibrations get on them and so the the readings may get mixed up
Hungarians are so resistant to being called Eastern European. But to the outside world, and politically and socially the west views Hungarians as eastern. Honestly, Ive never heard the term “central europe” used besides from Hungarians.
How do you know that the portrait you worked from eas connected to her after saying there is no image of her? Great work by the way, just that some details don't stack up being actually historical.
Erzsébet Báthory or Elisabeth Báthory was a good countess, she did not do any wrong! She helped peasants and cured the peasants ehen they were sick. She was the second most wealthy widow in Hungarian Kingdom! The Habsburgs wanted her wealth! Not just hers, but the wealth if many great nobles of Hungary! The Habsburgs took the wealth of all the nobles of Hungary, who didn't want to serve them, who didn't want to become german, who didn't want to become roman-catholic and give tjeir money to the roman church, who didn't want to serve Rome and the jesuits! When the Habsburgs took the land and wealth of the hungarian noble families, they gave the majority to the Roman catholic church, and the rest to the foreign nobles, who were brought here by Habsburgs, given hungarian names and become the new nobles. But these new nobles were cruel to the peasants, they took away the freedom of the peasants! These new nobles were mostly german and austrian, or other nationalities, who served the Habsburgs. These new nobile families almost destroyed Hungary from within. But only their fake names sounded hungarian, in reality they were the enemies of Hungary and hungarian people!!!
I don't know if Elizabeth Bathory was a serial killer or not. what I do know is that Stephan Bathory who was related to her (although not directly) was a perfectly normal king he was militarily inclined but he just improved the military and not start any wars, and there is nothing about him being a monster infect he is remembered as pretty good monarch. so I have some doubts that Elizabeth Bathory was really a serial killer of course it is possible.
No she is guilty there is documentation of 100 girls who were hired by her went to her castle and never returned? Unless she setting them free in the woods the fact is they never returned after being hired by her an her family!
I think this is a story of misogyny. Something conjured up that seemed so horrific, people wouldn't tolerate. Those murders sound like the workings of men.
The facial features of the recreation look so soft, almost so contrary to what she was said to have been as a person - not really nice, when she employed all those girls and then physically tortured them - n=so a not very nice person at all this "Mrs Dracula", as she was referred to then
So this is the woman that all these metal bands keep writing songs about.
I thought it was Lizzie Borden?
I was thinking exactly the same 😂
Can I get a band example?please and thank you
Yup I covered the DISSECTION song Elizabeth Bathory .🤘
@@johndavidjimenez4009 Ghost had a song call Elizabeth
Love it! Especially the sly grin at the end? "Was I a serial killer or wasn't I?" She seems to be asking with her smirk. Happy Halloween! Beautifully done. Thank you so much.
Thank YOU so much for the kind words 🥰
That grin is called duper's delight.
Can’t judge her but if she were alive today with a good upbringing she probably would be a normal person but who knows
I would love to see you do a colorized version of Rasputin. I want to see what he looks like in color, his eyes, hair, etc. I am wondering if he will look more or less spooky in color. :-) Thanks.
She needs to animate him and see what he looks like.
Oh yes, great idea.
He would look just as intense in color, I feel, because he was described as having piercing dark blue eyes by people who knew him.
YES!
Khamenei without turban. = Rasputin
I would like to see a recreation of "Bonnie" Prince Charles Edward Stuart based on the portrait of him that was recently discovered, and his death mask. A lot of witnesses who saw him stated that he was very handsome (some said the most handsome man they had ever seen in their life) and it would be great to see his red hair not covered by a wig. Great work! These just keep getting better!
I'm intrigued! I second this request.
I second this
His brother the Cardinal Duke of York was far more attractive. And frankly a lot of the attraction was in comparison to the Hanoverians who bless them were not especially good looking (except Electress Sophia)
I would also love to see this one!
I've never seen a picture/portrait of him that looked anything but effeminate and rather delicate, hardly anyone I would consider "handsome" but I know some people are drawn to that look
Well, you made her look lovely but also those eyes and that little smile have a sinister cast to them. So, you captured in a face the whole ambiguity of her that you had described. Well done indeed.
Actually, the King of Hungary owed her more money the he had and could afford to pay back. And Thurzo was a relative.
Exactly
so maybe the king framed her?
It seems she was framed
that has been proven to be false it was made up by a german historian in the 1800s if im not mistaken
@@raystargazer7468She was first accused by a Lutheran priest. They took their sectarian squabbles very seriously back in the day. She was a Calvanist. Then Thurzo, who was a very wealthy land owner and buddies with some of her relatives who wanted her wealth which they got. Matthias had instigated some of the original charges against her. He did owe her quite a bit of money and there was some discussion of him seizing her land and holdings. Purportedly the reason Thurzo swooped in and redistributed the land to his allies in her family was to prevent Matthais being able to do this. The bonus for Matthais was that he didn't have to honor his debt to her once she was disgraced. All of this was pretty standard practice for getting hold of a wealthy independent woman's property in the 16th century.
Just started watching your channel. Watched your Cleopatra, Vlad the impaler, and now this one. Great content! Always appreciate channels that bring past history to life.
As with this one, the reason why there is no original surviving portrait was because after her trial, all of her portraits were simply discarded and/or destroyed. The reason for this was because she was to be 'erased' from history. The Bathory Family was prestigious, rich, and had a-lot of influences in politics. Gyorgy Thurzo and his entourage of personnel wanted to keep this case on the most low-key and quiet note as possible. Servants, poor people, and villagers often tried to uproar against the nobility for common human rights. (During Elizabeth's time you could definitely abuse your servants without consequence, and you could even get away with killing a few if you lied about the cause.)(Although you as a noble would be responsible for replacing that servants job.) Really dark times.
Because the accusations against her were so extreme and serious, the officials decided to have a quick trial and ban her name for 100 years in public society. That's right, it was illegal to say her name in public area for 100 years after she died. It wasn't until the 1710s (100 or so years after she died) that her story was picked up by that jesuit scholar Laszlo something...lol. And HE was the one that added all that extra fake folklore about her, like drinkng blood and bathing in it. Scientifically its impossible to bathe in blood because of coagulation. Otherwise, her story probably would have been lost in history if Laszlo didn't pick it up.
As for her image, according to people during her time she was described as having: Raven black hair, a milky white skin tone, some people said she had hazel eyes, others said her eyes were almost black, (if you split the difference she probably had brown eyes.) She probably had a very prominent forehead too, as most noblewomen did. Noblewomen would shave a little bit off their hairline to show they were prominent figures in society. Overall, at least during her young adulthood she was said to have beautiful looks. If we were to assume the portraits today of Erzsebet are infact Erzsebet, then her nose was stout and firm. Personally, one thing that I noticed with all her alleged portraits is her eyes. Her eyes are wide and big. She probably had wide open eyes with a big stare.
This case has a-lot to it, if anyone truly wants to find out what happened in terms of, what is fake, what is true, and who she really was I would seriously recommend reading: book:"Infamous lady" author: Kimberly L. Craft. In that book are trial transcripts which are translated to English for the first time. And A-LOT MORE. This is where I got my info regarding Bathory from.
Ok all have a great day!😁
Great Ethan 👍 Are you Israeli, by the way? Ayala is gazelle in Hebrew.
10 years ago I reached this conclusion that she may well have been innocent and the evidence for me was astounding, knowing what we do about their period and culture, and how women in general were left unprotected once their husbands or fathers died.
I love the way you showed her with long nails and made her smirk. Make me think your a little morbid which is fine for this specific job. Great work I'm loving it all!!!
That was a good recreation of that unknown woman in the painting.
The recreation is amazing! The hair and makeup instantly transformed her into a 21st Century person. She even kinda reminds me a little of my secondary school history teacher!
I would love to see your recreation of Isabella of Portugal (if you haven't already), supposedly one of the most beautiful women of her time in Europe.
Robert Dudley would be awesome!! Would love to see an image of the man that held Queen Elizabeth I’s heart for so long.
Indeed, a lot of confessions against Erzebet were taken under torture. Mostly by having their fingers ripped out
her accomplices feared her retribution more than those who tortured them. If they were tortured, this doesn’t mean they were lying about the killings.
Their flesh was stripped off of them while they were still alive and then they were buried alive. Don't think they needed to worry about Elizabeth going after them. You do need to be a bit better informed. Her "accomplises" were women who had worked with her for years. They provided medical care to woman and educated young women and girls from the dispossessed Slovak Families who had lost all their families possessions to the invading Hungarians. She published books and may have been smuggling books into the country which the authorities forbid. There seems to be a tremendous amount of good that this woman did for her countrymen. She does not deserve to languish as this slanderous creation of Thurzo's her greedy unprincipled neighbor.
Hmmm I agree that a lot of these stories could be fabricated but to say even if she was a serial killer she wouldn’t of bathed in her victims blood is being naive. Serial killers have done disgusting things like wear people’s skin and so on.
OOhh I was excited for this. I've watched several documentaries about her & cos I'm morbid, a little fascinated by her. Thank you for doing this one x
She is really fascinating!
Woh. I always thought of her with a kind of regal Kate Winslet look. Your interpretation is nearly exactly as I imagined - amazing (and somewhat chilling) work! Love it!
*I have known about Elizabeth for a long time, as I am a history buff. However, to be honest, the thought that she might be innocent and was framed, is a new one for me. Either way, God knows and that's what's important.*
Here innocence was put into question casue of lgbt diversity woke politics lol. You see it has to be all the evil mens fault she was just an innocent woman being used by evil men...I just do not pay attention
I think a lot of her crimes against her are exaggerated and may have been falsified such as her bathing in blood. However, I do think at the minimum is that she has killed some of those girls although it may be actually lower than the number of murders she was accused of.
Totally framed
@@chrislair6832 there is a lot of evidence she was actually a serial killer, but the numbers are probably exaggerated
@@thomasprent2179 I'm not taking this opportunity to argue with you I just want to know some sources because I'm fascinated by the story I just don't buy it
Binging your videos I love them!
Elizabeth Bathory is fascinating to me I sometimes wonder if she'd been framed as she was a powerful woman with male rivals who probably wanted to knock her down
I have huge wall portrait of Elizabeth Bathory amazing portrait when you walk by it looks lik her eyes follow you as you walk by her portrait
Wonderful work! I know it's not"royalty" but how about classical composer Bach as a modern day heavy metal rocker? Bach n roll baby!
The problem with the history of ALL monarchs is that, at the time, and even now, you have parties with vested interests in finding them guilty or innocent, depending or where their interests lay. I did once work on a magazine which was running a piece on one of her descendants. With a mass murderer as an ancestor he worked, appropriately enough, in the London Financial world. I was the only one in the studio who recognised the Bathory name.
Thank you for giving this information. It's really interesting to see her descendants today even if 400 years has passed.
Can you explain what content the magazine job includes?
@@fatiht8863 It was a UK financial magazine. It seems one of her descendants was "something in the city". I can't be much more exacting as it was 25+ years ago and I can't recall too much.
Love watching your stuff. It's so interesting. Love the history and the end creation. Your ' brilliant channel is so fascinating. This episode is great, love Sharon 💜
I would love to see King Henry the 8th's boys together, Henry Fitzroy and Edward.
I would love to make them soon! They are definitely on my list - the tudors are a favorite of mine
@@RoyaltyNowStudios You're a cutie yourself ❤️
Das habe ich auch so in Erinnerung.
Schön, dass du das klarstellst. 👍
Have you done a modern Anne Boleyn and/or Anne Bonny? Those are my two favorite historical women. I'd love to see them. Bathory is so well done. She's another very interesting character that I've been awake of for a long time.
I would LOVE to see what King Arthur looked like. And Magician Merlin looked like. And the REAL Robin Hood.
Omgosh u did do Bathory , just left a comment asking if u did . Man U are on point !! Ty
Your work is SO good! I love it. I'd love to see the "famously ugly" Anne of Cleves. I imagine Henry VIII was overstating things a bit.
Based on the one famous painting, I really can't see what's so ugly about her
@@monmothma3358That’s what Henry thought until he saw her in person.
Funny how just a hairstyle and makeup can make a world of difference. I would have liked to have seen you update the other woman.
it's not just hairstyle and makeup she also changes their jawline a lot to the modern standard of beauty (snatched jawline, no round or any sign of double chin) she also tends to change their eyebrow shapes into modern standard of how women do their eyebrows now. Also the shape of the lips is not always the same
Your brief histories and recreations are great! Very interesting and exciting.
Her eyes are very...hypnotic!! WOW.
I’ve heard of Elizabeth Bathory from watching a documentary about her many many years ago. I always believed she was a serial killer and she is one of the most prolific female serial killers. In my opinion, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that so many of her young servant girls disappeared suspiciously while in her presence. She had to have killed them. In the documentary I watched, it stated that she began killing new servants after the passing of her husband. I’ve also heard the myth of her drinking and bathing in her victim’s blood so she’ll stay youthful but I don’t believe it either. The reconstruction of how she looked like is pretty spot on and she looks sadistic and definitely looks like she was a killer. Amazing work!
This "blood libel" against her is false. It is the same accusation used against Jews at the time inorder to dispossess them of their property. Most of these " documentaries are just rehashing of false accusations. The 16th century was not a great moment for wealthy, well educated, independent thinking women. Look at who got her property and poof the money Matthias owed her just vanished after she was disgraced what is it the murder mysteries alway say? " Follow the money"
There’s an old movie about her. I remember seeing it in my early teens (decades ago). It completely freaked me out.
It’s called “Stay alive”. It’s a video game horror movie about her
Thank you! Happy Halloween
The framed theory could be true but there has to be some truth to all the accusations. If they wanted to get rid of her they could have came up with something less overkill(pun intended). She is a beautiful lady and as a noble woman in power during that time period her looks would be a great weapon for her. So I am sure she was vain and worried about aging. So one has to think what wouldn't she do to keep her good looks? I don't believe she is entirely innocent nor entirely guilty.
After seeing what outlandish lies my nasty family members have made up about other family members I wouldn't consider it outlandish. I used to believe the stories of Elizabeth Bathory were true, but I now realize she could have been innocent or at worst just an abusive mistress that never actually killed anyone since no actual victims were named in the records. I side more with the abusive mistress part because her servants might have defended her if she had been a kind person, but if she was cruel they would bring back stories and make them sound outlandish due to them not liking her
@@lovetobe6118 So your reason for her innocence is anecdotal?
Property. She owned a lot of it through marriage at a time when women weren't supposed to - and I've heard that with the amount of money she had - something like this is possible in order to actually take it from her. I would have to go back and read about it again, but it seemed a feasible theory as a plot against her.
Actually the obsession with beauty and bathing in blood seems to be the most outlandish thing about the story, the kind of thing that a 16th century man would come up with to explain away a woman's sadistic-sexual murders.
I believe I once read an SF/fantasy/romance short story that used Bathory and Vlad in a sort of lake house concept- a century apart, they somehow could exchange letters. It made both strangely sympathetic. I mean, I was always kind of sympathetic to Vlad, though I wouldn't want a dinner invitation from him.
That sounds really cool.
He's her cousin actually l.
I love your work, im curious to if you would one day to see one on Emperor Montezuma II of the Mexica (Aztec) there is one painting of him from before the conquest of México, anyways thank you for you work!
If I ever see someone in real life which looks like her, I'M RUNNING AWAY FROM THERE
Imagine Elizabeth B and Vlad the Impaler for dinner guests. 😱 Great reconstruction. TY ❤️
Haha I know - Eastern Europe was an interesting place around that tome! And thank you :)
Actually they were related.
As long as you invite them to dinner, not the other way round!
Chef Dahmer would prepare the meal
Wow! Great job on the contemporary portrait!
Subscribed, i like the way you tell the story behind each figure.
Looks amazing I appreciate your skill interpreting these paintings.
Has she done Delphine Lalaurie? Great video!
Wow. Increidible work. One more fan and subscribed!!
Great content ma'am. Thanks to your channel, I get to know more names from the past. If I can suggest, maybe the likes of Billy the Kid or Crispus Attucks can be your next subjects for videos. Thank you.
Bathory was believed to be the inspiration for the Vampiress Carmilla
I can totally see that.
Please do a facial reconstruction of Saint Cecilia of Rome, I didn’t how Saint Cecilia looks like when she was alive during ancient Roman times and they portrayed her as a ginger, brunette and blonde
I love this channel. I ADORE your work. Impressive.
I’m chilled by that smile in the end
I’d love to see what you would do of Princess Diana in 2023. It’s different than what you have done in the past, yet it would be interesting to see.
The two portraits you worked from look like the same woman, very nice!. William Wallace please?.
You make her look like a horror novelist
Very interesting. Wonderful work you do.
you would not suspect this beautiful woman of being evil - until you see her smiling. Then you might be nervous..
All depends on if you’re looking at it through the “framed innocent” or “serial killer” lens which either makes it sweet or super creepy 😅
@@RoyaltyNowStudios the smile softened her and brought some beautiful happiness to her face! Loved the smile you did!
Such a beautiful girl , that deceitful smirk , says “ try to figure out what makes me tick “ .
Love this! great job!
Thank you!
We are all one.
She watches the clouds skud by,
She breathes your air,
Pities the past and those who settled there.
Could you please do all the Julio-Claudian women and also the Romantic Poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Leigh Hunt, Mary Shelley).
I was soo weirdly obsessed with her when i was younger, i don't know why but i kinda do wanna know, maybe something with a past life?
I love your work, just discovered you this afternoon. My husband would like to see you do a Napoleon. thanks!
You’re in luck. He is coming very soon!
Here is a great video! Another suggestion would be Alice Kyteler!!
The issue I have with this is that it’s the painting of an unidentifiable woman so it’s not Elizabeth B. That’s what I came here for😭
How about a recreation of William the Conqueror an/or Owain Glyndwr?
Good work, thank you! 👍
Beautiful work.
I came upon the "framed" theory a few years ago And after reading I believe it to be true.
Marie Antoinette would be interesting
The bottom line is if she did any of the stuff shes accused of shes pretty despicable even if mistreating servants was " the norm". How these people dare call themselves " Christians"?
sad there aren't any existing contemporary portraits of her. It did sound like after her "trial" they tried to erase her from history from one documentary I watched. Like you apply put, the records on her are "foggy".
This is beautiful!
Interesting, were there any descriptions of her appearance on record?
Great. Here is another suggestion, Isabella Jagiello Zapolya, queen of Upper Hungary and princess of Transylvania. 1519-1559, cousin or rather niece of Catarina Sforza.
There's no evidence that she actually killed anyone. It's unfortunate she had so many people wanting her downfall.
Id love to see more egyptian kings like ramses or king tut
Good job. She was beautiful.
Eva Green would be great to play Elizabeth Bathory
A fascinating story. She certainly appears to have been a very beautiful woman, and the recreation is lovely. Did she do all those things, or didn't she? I imagine that a few servants etc. vanished with "the Hungarian noblewomen", but it seems that it is not proven at all. Too bad that they didn't get a deposition from Elisabeth herself.
Her grin at the last really shows that she is a serial KILLER.
I know he’s not a Royal, but try William Wallace . I’d love to see that .
I am learning that with the help of the tarot cards we can possibly see if she was guilty or not and please when doing this remember to smudge your deck as our vibrations get on them and so the the readings may get mixed up
You portrait puts me in mindvof
Margarite Hagarty the actor . Who is in fact Hungarian.
BEAUTIFUL!!!
Wonderful 😊
Could you do Helen of Troy?
Actually, a minor detail, Hungary is in central Europe 😊. Anyway, love the portrait! Amazing!!
Hungarians are so resistant to being called Eastern European. But to the outside world, and politically and socially the west views Hungarians as eastern. Honestly, Ive never heard the term “central europe” used besides from Hungarians.
@@Arginnethey aren't slavs so central Europe would fit more.
Nothing was ever done until she started going after the noble girls.
How do you know that the portrait you worked from eas connected to her after saying there is no image of her? Great work by the way, just that some details don't stack up being actually historical.
It was identified as her a few times, but the identifications are not 100%
Nice. thank you.
IMHO she was framed!🙋😄
Erzsébet Báthory or Elisabeth Báthory was a good countess, she did not do any wrong! She helped peasants and cured the peasants ehen they were sick. She was the second most wealthy widow in Hungarian Kingdom!
The Habsburgs wanted her wealth! Not just hers, but the wealth if many great nobles of Hungary! The Habsburgs took the wealth of all the nobles of Hungary, who didn't want to serve them, who didn't want to become german, who didn't want to become roman-catholic and give tjeir money to the roman church, who didn't want to serve Rome and the jesuits! When the Habsburgs took the land and wealth of the hungarian noble families, they gave the majority to the Roman catholic church, and the rest to the foreign nobles, who were brought here by Habsburgs, given hungarian names and become the new nobles. But these new nobles were cruel to the peasants, they took away the freedom of the peasants! These new nobles were mostly german and austrian, or other nationalities, who served the Habsburgs. These new nobile families almost destroyed Hungary from within. But only their fake names sounded hungarian, in reality they were the enemies of Hungary and hungarian people!!!
Wow just wow, please try some Egyptian pharaohs
There are some on the Instagram! @royalty_now_ , I just need to make a video for them soon :)
@@RoyaltyNowStudios perfect, I want to check right now, thanks for responding, you are so talented
I don't know if Elizabeth Bathory was a serial killer or not. what I do know is that Stephan Bathory who was related to her (although not directly) was a perfectly normal king he was militarily inclined but he just improved the military and not start any wars, and there is nothing about him being a monster infect he is remembered as pretty good monarch. so I have some doubts that Elizabeth Bathory was really a serial killer of course it is possible.
No she is guilty there is documentation of 100 girls who were hired by her went to her castle and never returned? Unless she setting them free in the woods the fact is they never returned after being hired by her an her family!
If that portrait is of the lady in question, she was quite attractive.
I think this is a story of misogyny. Something conjured up that seemed so horrific, people wouldn't tolerate.
Those murders sound like the workings of men.
The facial features of the recreation look so soft, almost so contrary to what she was said to have been as a person - not really nice, when she employed all those girls and then physically tortured them - n=so a not very nice person at all this "Mrs Dracula", as she was referred to then
I imagine it would have been easy for her to lure victims, she looks like a vampire
Lady, you are a genius! You make Queen Victoria, Napoleon, and Queen Nefertiti come alive again!
This is not a portrait of Elizabeth Bathory!!!
Her portrait looks like me omg