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The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Bastard | Boring History For Sleep

The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Bastard | Boring History For Sleep

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Being born a bastard in medieval Europe wasn’t just a social inconvenience — it was a lifelong sentence of exclusion, humiliation, and legal invisibility. In this quietly brutal bedtime tale, we walk the mud-caked path of someone born into the wrong family, at the wrong time, under the wrong circumstances. From cradle to grave, discover how illegitimacy shaped every aspect of life: childhood, love, work, religion, and even death.

This isn’t the story of the lucky few who rose to fame. This is the forgotten truth of the many who didn’t — the ones who served, suffered, and vanished.

So dim the lights. Settle in. And let the Drowsy Historian guide you through a story that was never supposed to be told — the weary, thankless life of a medieval bastard.

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