Sunday, May 5, 2019

The Royal Mistress: Often the Most Powerful Person in a King’s Court

From HISTORY
It was pretty common for kings to have a mistress in those days, in part because marriages were arranged for political gain and not personal companionship. “They would often be paired with someone who they may not have known very well or they may not have liked,” says Danièle Cybulskie, author of the forthcoming book Life in Medieval Europe: Fact and Fictions. Adultery was still frowned upon, and kings could be deposed if they appeared to act too immorally, but people mostly tolerated a king having one mistress at a time.

Diane de Poitiers visiting sculptor Jean Goujon. 

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