richmond-rex:Reminder that contemporaries believed that 13/14-year-old girls were too young to give
richmond-rex:Reminder that contemporaries believed that 13/14-year-old girls were too young to give birth. Reminder that contemporaries were amazed that Margaret Beaufort and her son survived childbirth: ‘It seemed a miracle that, at that age, and of so little a personage, anyone should have been born at all’ (from Margaret’s funeral eulogy). Reminder that Henry VII’s family expressed concern at marrying his daughter too young because they feared ’[the groom] would not wait, but injure her, and endanger her health’.The old “it was like this back then” saying does not apply in this case. -- source link
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