https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_du_seigneur
if you were a knight back then would you have exercised this right?
I wouldn't have because I couldn't have because it's fictional
>>3250203
>second sentence of the linked article clearly states there is literally no evidence this ever happened
It's probably just another piece of propaganda invented by enlightenment republicans.
>>3250285
>Be catholic lord
>yet somehow exists a fucking law, that you can outright break commit adultery
>yet somehow Pope or everyone else doesn't give a fuck
So this. It was just some version of enlightenment-era Mel Gibson.
>>3250203
You're better off bending peasant bitches over in wars.
>>3250285
It's both that and renaissance era propaganda, when various monarchies always claimed that their enemies do this. Note that no author ever describes this practice existing in his own country, it's always describing someone else. It's basically an ancient way to insult your enemies by calling them cucks.
>>3250203
Droit du seigneur, aka droit de cuissage is probably a deformation of the droit de cullage.
That is, when serfs married a villain or a serf from another fief, they had to pay a dot in compensation for them leaving their lord's service.
>>3250866
There were laws that permitted usury and fucking murder. The pope didn't care.
>>3250939
>ywn take a shepard girl in her pasture after a battle
Why even live bros?
>>3250258
fpbp
>>3250942
Is cuckposting part of the human condition?
>>3250203
>and all known references to it are from later time periods
Hmmm it's almost like some people, particularly in France, made a point into making the Middle Age the darkest, most injust and most terrible period in human history...
>>3250203
Invented during the revolutionary 19th century period, to mobilise the masses against the nobles/lordship etc.
believe it or not, you had to keep your peasants merry, else they would leave you and join another lord. fucking his wife on their wedding night is not how that goes (except in sweden).
>>3250203
>There is no evidence of the right being exercised in medieval Europe, and all known references to it are from later time periods.[1][2]