[ SECRET POST #5232 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5232 ⌋

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[bookblather]

I'd like to add that it was really only the aristocracy getting married that early (most other people, the average age for marriage was somewhere in the mid- to late twenties), and having sex with the child bride in question was almost unheard of. People weren't dumb back then, they knew getting pregnant that early would probably severely injure the girl. There are a couple of young brides who got pregnant (Eleanor of Castile, Henry IV's first wife Mary de Bohun), but they were almost always married to boys their own age (Eleanor's husband was fifteen to her thirteen, Henry and Mary were fourteen and twelve), and in both cases their guardians separated the couple and gave them a stern lecture about getting pregnant too early.

Edmund Tudor impregnating Margaret Beaufort at twelve was absolutely gross and horrible in 1456 and he did get a lot of flak for it. His cleaned-up modern reputation is largely the responsibility of Henry VII and Margaret herself trying to make their family line look good.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, and this is something that very commonly happens today in areas of the world where (mostly due to poverty) young girls are married off very early, and end up dying in childbirth or living with severe birth injuries. There's a reason why fistula hospitals aren't a thing in most countries anymore.

[sparklywalls]

+1 to all this as well.

It infuriates me that in their quest to justify fantasy about fucking underage girls, people (especially gross men) forget young brides were a wealthy people thing to secure alliances etc and generally it was a case of keep them away from the marital bed for a while.

And everyone always conveniently forgets peasants/lower orders, who the vast majority of us would’ve been, who married at ages more similar to now e.g. 20s+