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Katy

Katy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
823 total appearances

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

I thought she was like 18, 19.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Okay.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

At least.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

So she's like, she's 13 when her dad dies.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Y'all want to hear something horrifying?

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Of course.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

So.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Back then, a lot of times you hear these stories about, okay, these people were getting married when they were 13.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

That wasn't everybody in the world.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

That wasn't normal.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Like, if you were just a peasant, you weren't getting married when you were 13.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

It was just the royals.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Because if you're a peasant, your peasant boyfriend had to wait until he could make a living.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Right.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

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.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

That's why they were marrying these children off to each other.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

But no, here's something that's horrifying.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

If you were a wealthy heiress and she is just trying to travel from Aquitaine to Paris and

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

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.

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Eleanor of Aquitaine: The Queen Who Built Empires for Loser Kings

Because if she got kidnapped...