Legitimacy of Bastards
Legitimacy of Bastards For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, married at the age of twenty to a ten-year-old…
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Legitimacy of Bastards
For the nobility and gentry in later medieval England, land was a source of wealth and status. John de Warenne, earl of Surrey, married at the age of twenty to a ten-year-old granddaughter of Edward I, had at least eight bastards and a complicated love life.In theory, bastards were at a considerable disadvantage. Their marriages were arranged with this in mind, and it is not surprising that so many of them had mistresses and illegitimate children.
In practice, illegitimacy could be less of a stigma in late medieval England than it became between the sixteenth and late twentieth centuries. Regarded as 'filius nullius' or the son of no one, they were unable to inherit real property and barred from the priesthood. There were ways of making provision for illegitimate offspring and some bastards did extremely well: in the church; through marriage; as soldiers; a few even succeeding
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