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| Dec 5, 2014 at 23:52 | comment | added | Adriano Varoli Piazza | @Smithers thing is, it was a common reading of "producing offspring" in ancient history and medieval times. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 23:25 | comment | added | Smithers | Requires a loose reading of "producing offspring," but has the advantage of being possibly the least objectionable of the nightmare-fuel answers to this question. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 21:29 | history | edited | Adriano Varoli Piazza | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 4, 2014 at 20:11 | comment | added | MEP | For that matter, Julius adopted Augustus. The Roman Empire is a great example of a pseudo-hereditary power structure. We tend to think that nobility was always passed down from fathers to sons, but in certain periods of history that was the exception rather than the rule (especially Medieval Europe where family lines were unstable due to power struggles, war and disease, affairs were celebrated in culture as romantic, and true paternity was difficult to test). I'd be amazed if the "prince" in the original question was actually his father's son. | |
| Dec 4, 2014 at 15:30 | history | answered | Adriano Varoli Piazza | CC BY-SA 3.0 |