Elisabetta's maternal grandparents were Mastino II della Scala and his wife Taddea da Carrara.

He seized the papal city of Bologna, rejected the Pope and his authority, confiscated ecclesiastical property, and forbade any of his subjects to have any dealings with the Curia.

[3] In 1380, Elisabetta was at first promised to Azzone, a son of Gian Galeazzo Visconti and his first wife Isabella of Valois.

After Isabella of Valois died, Caterina Visconti, Elisabetta's older sister, married his father Gian Galeazzo.

The couple had four children: Before Elisabetta's death in 1432, her son Albert III married secretly the maid Agnes Bernauer; Ernest issued orders for her to be murdered.