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Erzsebet Bathory (675 words) |
 | Erzsebet (also written Elizabeth) Bathory was born in 1560 to a wealthy and prominent family during a time of war between the Turks and Austria-Hungary armies. |
| She was the daughter of Baron and Baroness George and Anna Bathory. |
| Prince Steven Bathory of Transylvania participated in an expedition led by Vlad Dracula in Walachia in 1546 to recover his throne. |
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John of Hungary - LoveToKnow 1911 (756 words) |
| JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540), king of Hungary, was the son of the palatine Stephen Zapolya and the princess Hedwig of Teschen, and was born at the castle of Szepesvar. |
| As far back as 1491 his mother had proposed to the sick king that his daughter Anne should be committed to her care in order, subsequently, to be married to her son; but Wladislaus frustrated this project by contracting a matrimonial alliance with the Habsburgs. |
| Zapolya was elected king of Hungary at the subsequent diet of Tokaj (Oct. 14), the election was confirmed by the diet of Szekesfehervar (loth of November), and he was crowned on the following day with the holy crown. |
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