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jasperlion · 6 months

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@fellmother replied to your post:

{THE ESSAY. HAND IT OVER🫱}

[ I think I ought to get around to actually Making A Cool Essay About It because what I find most interesting about Valentian Succession itself (and the fact that people apparently miss it in their quest for wanting it to have Victorian Misogyny for some reason) is that the biggest and strongest example for how it works is Rudolf. He wasn't even the previous emperor's younger son or nephew or anything, he was like the cousin three(?) times removed at that point... but he just happened to have a brand, so Duma thought he was cooler than Rigel IV.

Aside from the fact both Zofia and Rigel were pretty much hyperfocused on who had a brand to pick the next ruler, there's also Mathilda and Clair to consider when people say Victorian Misogyny is real? The only reason Clive and Fernand oppose Clair becoming a part of the Order of Knights was because she was their widdle baby(and not the firstborn), not because she was a girl, or she wouldn't have been able to enlist at all if Women Couldn't Serve. Nobility had a responsibility to serve the crown in military service, sure, but only like the first child was mandatory (like Mathilda/Clive/Fernand) and they only had to serve a few months of the year (barring wars and emergencies), REGARDLESS of their gender. It was their right as to them being nobles. ]

#[ wulf speaks ]#fellmother #noble women who were not married and were the sole descendant of their parents would also have the right to rule the property too.#anyways if i make the post id have to haul over the sources etc but its super interesting to see that class was far more important than #anything else in the timeperiod... and it plays into valentia's thesis about a lot of it being a class war.#berkut had no problem with zofian nobles if they weren't his opponent and neither did the zofian nobles have problems with rigelian nobles #as to their land of origin.. their shared disdain was to the peasantry.#anyway this is getting long tldr i wanna shake people who think conrad should have been the next in line #hi mom (waves)#uuh oh yea postscript women did suffer misogyny but no the victorian version

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