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Wow, just wow (HoD)
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Wow, just wow (HoD)
August 29, 2022 at 2:50 am (This post was last modified: August 29, 2022 at 2:58 am by Foxaèr.)
House of the Dragon, episode two, wants to go the way of the Muslim.

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RE: Wow, just wow (HoD)
August 29, 2022 at 3:25 am
It's not just Muslim practice to marry adults to kids, but other religions as well, including Christianity, especially in medieval times.

Quote:From 380 A.D. to 1971 A.D. the minimum marriageable age was 12 years for females and 14 years for males in the Roman Catholic Church, which was adopted into canon law from Roman law.

Judith of Flanders (aged about 12/13) was married to Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (aged about 61), in October 856.

Beatrice of Vermandois (aged about 10) was married to Robert, Margrave of Neustria (aged about 24; later King of West Francia), in c. 890

Bertha of Swabia (aged about 15) was married to Rudolph II of Burgundy (aged about 42) in 922.

Gisela of Hungary (aged about 11) was married to Stephen I of Hungary (aged about 21) in 996.

Cecile of France (aged 8/9) was married to Tancred, Prince of Galilee (aged 30/31), in late 1106.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_brides
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RE: Wow, just wow (HoD)
August 29, 2022 at 3:29 am (This post was last modified: August 29, 2022 at 3:44 am by Rev. Rye.)
Just for the record, this sort of thing was alarmingly common among the royalty of Europe in the Medieval Era, whose history and aesthetics George R.R. Martin tends to crib from. At least one king of England went as far as marrying a girl of SEVEN. It's moments like this that I'm disappointed that Two Gentlemen of Lebowski doesn't have a Shakespearean equivalent to "Eight Year Olds, Dude." And I checked, even after finding out that The Jesus was renamed Joshua Quince. Except maybe
"WALTER
Nay, fear him not, nor his unworthy joys.
Recall the tragic tale of the pageboys"
But that doesn't work as well.

To be fair, there was a fairly small concession to decency in that such marriages wouldn't marry until the girl was old enough to menstruate.
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RE: Wow, just wow (HoD)
August 29, 2022 at 5:11 am
Let's all keep in mind that these were political marriages, done to cement military alliances, circumvent power blocks, establish trade agreements, etc. Sex with child brides wasn't a consideration (this is one of the reasons for the abundance of noble/royal bastards that cluttered up medieval Europe).

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September 12, 2022 at 7:39 am (This post was last modified: September 12, 2022 at 8:09 am by Foxaèr.)
And the show gets creepier (haven't seen it, but saw this article).

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Watching it now since my work weekend is at an end.
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RE: Wow, just wow (HoD)
September 12, 2022 at 12:42 pm
I think I am all in now. Things are getting crazy and I have to see how it turns out.
  
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