Podcast Appearances
I thought she was like 18, 19.
Okay.
At least.
So she's like, she's 13 when her dad dies.
Y'all want to hear something horrifying?
Of course.
So.
Back then, a lot of times you hear these stories about, okay, these people were getting married when they were 13.
That wasn't everybody in the world.
That wasn't normal.
Like, if you were just a peasant, you weren't getting married when you were 13.
It was just the royals.
Because if you're a peasant, your peasant boyfriend had to wait until he could make a living.
Right.
But if you are a royal and they're like, we need to make alliances, we don't have time for her to be an adult.
That's why they were marrying these children off to each other.
But no, here's something that's horrifying.
If you were a wealthy heiress and she is just trying to travel from Aquitaine to Paris and
The king had to send basically his entire guard, like all of his guards, to help her go from Aquitaine to Paris because it was a real risk that she had to worry about traveling.
Because if she got kidnapped...