Medievalists.net » Primogeniture http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Royal and Magnate Bastards in the Later Middle Ages: The View from Scotland http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/15/royal-magnate-bastards-later-middle-ages-view-scotland/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/06/15/royal-magnate-bastards-later-middle-ages-view-scotland/#comments Sun, 15 Jun 2014 23:59:54 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=50441 Theory and Practice in Scotland and Elsewhere Medieval Scotland’s law on bastardy is set out in the lawbook Regiam Majestatem (c.1320)...In England things were different, as Michael Hicks has demonstrated. Admittedly, English heraldic practice eventually followed the French, and the formula ‘X bastard of Y’ is occasionally found for magnates’ bastards.

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