Early+Life

=** Birth, Marriage and Children **= Elizabeth was born on the 7th August 1560 in Transylvania, it is said that at the age of 4 or 5 she suffered from violent seizures which may have being caused from epilepsy or some other neurological disorder. At the age of 15 she married Count Fenrec Nadasdy and moved to Castle Cséjthe in the Hungarian province. The count spend a lot of time away from home fighting in wars, for a brief time Elizabeth eloped with a dark stranger but on her return to the castle her husband forgave her. For the first ten years of their marriage Elizabeth bore no children, then around 1585 Elizabeth gave birth to her first child, a girl who she called Anna. Over the next nine year she gave birth to two more daughters, Ursula and Katharina and her first son Paul. In letters to her family members she seemed to be a loving wife and caring mother to her four children.