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“He was legally betrothed to her, and could not marry anyone else without a formal annulment. Her marriage to Amalric was not legal—” “In which case, Amalric’s children by her are bastards, including that leper boy,” Barry pointed out.
Nope. Under canon law, children of putative marriages were (and are) considered legitimate. Granted, there were plenty of medieval nobility who tried to argue otherwise, but their attempts to completely disinherit their children of a putative marriage seldom worked. For specific examples, consider Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk and Marguerite II, countess of Flanders.
After Hugh’s death, his second wife, Gundreda de Beaumont, tried to get his son by his annulled marriage to Juliane de Vere declared illegitimate so her sons could inherit instead and failed. Marguerite, meanwhile, tried to completely disinherit her sons by her first husband, Bouchard IV d’Avesnes, but was unable to do so. Instead, the county of Hainaut went to her sons by her first husband and the county of Flanders went to her sons by her second husband.
“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Plantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the death-cup mushroom. Everyone else in our family is dead.”
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
― We Have Always Lived in the Castle
“Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.”
― Haunted
― Haunted
“Egg has the truth of it. Aerion's quite the monster. He thinks he’s a dragon in human form, you know. That’s why he was so wroth at that puppet show. A pity he wasn't born a Fossoway, then he’d think himself an apple and we’d all be a deal safer, but there you are.”
― The Hedge Knight
― The Hedge Knight
“Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our creativity. As Kafka said, “The meaning of life is that it ends.” Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.”
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
― Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
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