Editing Elizabeth Báthory (section)

===Confinement and death===
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On 25 January 1611, Thurzó wrote a letter to King Matthias describing that they had captured and confined Báthory to her castle. The [[palatine]] also coordinated the steps of the investigation with the political struggle with the Prince of Transylvania.{{clarify|date=October 2021|reason=How was this "coordinated"?}} She was detained in the castle of Csejte for the remainder of her life, where she died at the age of 54. György Thurzó wrote that Báthory was [[Immurement|locked in a bricked room]], but according to documents from the visit of priests in July 1614, she was able to move unhindered in the castle, more akin to [[house arrest]].<ref>{{cite thesis|url=https://ir.library.illinoisstate.edu/etd/135|title=No Blood in the Water: The Legal and Gender Conspiracies Against Countess Elizabeth Bathory in Historical Context|first=Rachael|last=Bledsaw|date=20 February 2014|type=MS thesis |publisher=Illinois State University |doi=10.30707/ETD2014.Bledsaw.R}}</ref><ref>{{cite thesis |first=Palkó |last=Ferencné|url=https://adoc.pub/bathory-erzsebet-pere.html|title=Báthory Erzsébet Pere |trans-title= |date=2014 |type=BA thesis |publisher=University of Miskolc }}</ref>

She wrote a will in September 1610, in which she left all current and future inheritance possessions to her children.<ref name="Kord2009"/> In the last month of 1610, she signed her arrangement, in which she distributed the estates, lands and possessions among her children.<ref>Szádeczky-Kardoss Irma – Báthory Erzsébet igazsága / The truth of Elizabeth Báthory (10 years of research using contemporary correspondence)</ref><ref name=":2"/> On the evening of 20 August 1614, Báthory complained to her bodyguard that her hands were cold, whereupon he replied "It's nothing, mistress. Just go lie down". She went to sleep and was found dead the following morning.<ref name="Countess Erzsebet Bathory Kimberly L p.298">Infamous Lady the true story of Countess Erzsebet Bathory Kimberly L. Craft 2009 p.&nbsp;298</ref> She was buried in the church of Csejte on 25 November 1614,<ref name="Countess Erzsebet Bathory Kimberly L p.298"/> but according to some sources due to the villagers' uproar over having the Countess buried in their cemetery, her body was moved to her birth-home at [[Nagyecsed|Ecsed]], where it was intered at the Báthory family crypt.<ref>{{cite book |last=Farin |first=Michael |title=Heroine des Grauens: Wirken und Leben der Elisabeth Báthory: in Briefen, Zeugenaussagen und Phantasiespielen |year=1989 |page=246 |language=de |trans-title=Heroine of horror: the life and work of Elisabeth Báthory: in letters, testimonies and fantasy games |oclc=654683776}}</ref> The location of her body today is unknown but believed to be buried deep in the church area of the castle. The Csejte church and the castle of Csejte do not bear any markings of her possible grave.{{citation needed|date=May 2021}}<!-- Find a Grave is [[WP:RS/P|deprecated]]; do not use it as a source -->