Cartoons Hate Her (@cartoonshateher): "Also, nobility were such a small segment of the population! The “lots of 15 year old girls were married off to middle aged noblemen” is just a made up thing. As my article shows, even dating back to the UK in the 1500s, your average age at marriage was in the early to mid mid-20…"

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Also, nobility were such a small segment of the population! The “lots of 15 year old girls were married off to middle aged noblemen” is just a made up thing. As my article shows, even dating back to the UK in the 1500s, your average age at marriage was in the early to mid mid-20s for women and mid to late 20s for men.

Renata Ellera

Feb 4

Every time someone on the internet uses the argument that “teenage marriages and teenage pregnancy was common in Europe in the middle ages” to defend teenage pregnancy today, I like to remind them of Margaret Beaufort.

Yes, noble women and princesses were often married at age 12, but it was expected that their husbands waited until their…

substack.com/@theculturalromantic/note/c-209844…

Feb 4

6:35 PM

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