Re: Cho Chang not Ginny

BubblyBabs <ng@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: <SNIP>
:> :> And what of kings, always offering their daughters to the first hero
:> :> who saves them. Killing a dragon does not a great husband make.
:> : No, but it gets the daughter off his hands. Daughters in a patriarchal
:> : society are considered a liability, fit only for bargaining them off
:> : to someone for political advantage.
:> : Sorry about that, women's lib folks, but that is the way things WERE.
:>
:> More practically,these kings are usually shown as being without sons,
:> and a dragonslayer would presumably make a good successor.But legitimacy
:> as a successor requires marrying into the old dynasty.
:
: No sons probably due to inbreeding... Marrying the daughter off to a hero
: would probably guarantee he was not related and would introduce new genes
: into the pool...
: Babs

Does inbreeding reduce fertility?

Besides,mediaeval peasants were more likely to be inbred than royalty;
royals married distant cousins from distant cousins while serfs were
rarely allowed outside their own lords' lands.

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