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Tsaedje: May 11, 2007; BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

BravestOfTheLamps posted:

The Colosseum was inhabited during the Middle Ages.

The word "nepotism" comes from the practices of Popes naming nephews (nepos in latin) as cardinals. The practice was so well-established that the Cardinal Nephew was an official position for a century.

There is a fragmentary trial document from Renaissance Italy. It is a testimony of the household assassin of an Archbishop and his abbot son, concerning a murder of a peasant that they allegedly ordered. This is an utterly unremarkable case for the era.

Also those "nephews" were mostly the various popes' bastard sons

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Tsaedje: May 11, 2007; BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

Canemacar posted:

I remember someone in the Ancient History thread said something like Pharaohs would marry their sister, yeah, but that doesn't mean they'd actually be banging. It was more of a ceremonial marriage than an actual one, with pharaohs knocking up a concubine to get a kid.

True for some periods, but you're talking about a lot of history. There are other periods where Pharoahs are very likely marrying their own daughters and fathering kids with them

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Tsaedje: May 11, 2007; BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

3D Megadoodoo posted:

The longest-living person to rule England, before Elizabeth II surpassed them, was Oliver Cromwell's son, who died at age 85.

Only ruled for less than a year though.

You didn't even mention that he was commonly known as "Tumbledown Dick" because he was such a colossal gently caress up

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