Original: Countess Elizabeth Báthory de Ecsed ( Al beta Bátoriová in Slovak , Báthory Erzsébet in Hungarian , 7 August 1560 -- 21 August 1614 ) was a countess from the renowned Báthory family .
Simplified: Erzsébet Báthory ( Elizabeth Bathory in English ; ( August 7 , 1560 -- August 21 , 1614 ) , was a countess in what is now Transylvania .