Droit du seigneur
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Droit du seigneur, also known as jus primae noctis, was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with any female subject, particularly on her wedding n
Vasily Polenov: Le droit du Seigneur (1874); artist's interpretation of an old man bringing his young daughters to their feudal lord.
Voltaire, who in 1762 was the first person to use the term droit du seigneur.
Hector Boece, the first historian to record the droit du seigneur, in 1527.
Jules Arsene Garnier Le Droit Du Seigneur
Feudalism
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Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of various generally cohesive and convergent legal, economic, military, cultural, religious, and political institutions and customs that f
Droit du seigneur
…noctis ('right of the first night', recently sometimes incorrectly referred to as prima nocta), was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with any female subject, particularly on her wedding night. There are many references to the alleged custom throughout the…
Investiture of a knight (miniature from the statutes of the Order of the Knot, founded in 1352 by Louis I of Naples)
Orava Castle in Slovakia. Medieval castles are a traditional symbol of a feudal society.
Herr Reinmar von Zweter, a 13th-century Minnesinger, was depicted with his noble arms in Codex Manesse.
Depiction of socage on the royal demesne in feudal England, c. 1310