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Through history men have always blamed women for their own shortcomings and failures……they still do. A woman still can’t be safe walking down the street.

Catherine had a string mind of survival. The dowry non-payment is a funny story of how life's conditions may vary....

Puzzling times. Never safe of one's life.... About Milan: maybe a short insight line about its status as ...Italy in its present "united" condition did not exist back then? So reasoning the interest in Milan and why the pope could be of influence.

Very insightfull to me in mire detail as scolarly history lessens. 😊. Never knew Catherine was living not in Florence... or were there 2 Catherines with a time difference?

This video does not describe the 'special methods' that Fernel recommended and Catherine and Henri undertook to get pregnant.

Hypospadias or Chordee; improper exit of the opening of the penis. So the seminal fluid comes out in an abnormal way

Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria, hated each other with a passion and refused to have anything to do with each other. Needing to have an heir, the two of them were forced to share the same palace, if not the same bed. Miracle of miracles, Anne became pregnant and had Louis XIV 9 months later. Two years later the happy parents were once again forced to share a palace and the result was another son, Phillippe. After that, the two never saw each other again. The general consensus was that while cooped up in the palace a handsome virile high ranking member of the royal family was slipped in for a rowdy night or two with Anne and it was he who fathered the two princes. It is also the start of the legend of "The Man in the Iron Mask", as the two boys were said to strongly resemble this more distant member of the family than their official Dear Old Dad. When the boys started looking like their probable bio dad, he was shipped off to the New World to live in Quebec and never returned to France.

The poor women! Always blamed for not conceiving, or, failing to make it a boy! Faced with infertile spouses, or, immature or mentally defective Royal males who had not a clue how to copulate, etc., the smarter ones had to figure out other ways to conceive, to stay alive. The women who had to choose “creative problem solving” had to be extremely smart, & adept with psychology, to pull-off a trick like this one did! Each woman faced with this dilemma, had to Taylor her solution to her situation, very carefully, or risk dire endings. Obviously, their successful position was Not “missionary”-which was the usual, acceptable one the church recommended. It was probly one that might be found in one of the ancient Hindu temples showing extreme positions…many of those are very physically challenging, but not necessarily “fun”! One wonders, tho, what his congenital deformation was, that could have made conception the usual ways, unsuccessful. Could have been a severe micropenis, or maybe hypospadea…. ….and, more importantly, was that passed to his children?

Why do they always assume that the womanis "the problem"? With all the inbreeding in those royal families it would be no surprise if one of them was sterile.

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Well .. What Catharine needed was the 'try a functioning 🐍 snake' treatment, if you know what I mean.

No secrets from her. ClIck bait. 😢

More than likely she had a favoured footman????

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Are you sure that the doctor is not the father, the position is BS , lol

It is well known that Henri did not spend time in Catherine’s bed.

Very informative video. I commend you on your narration. Pronunciation was beautiful and at the perfect speed for understanding. Well done. Cheers from Australia.

Henri probably had hypospadias.

I read Machiavelli's "The Prince.*

Most likely cause was *third-degree hypospadias,* with the urethral opening near or on the scrotum. (First- and second-degree cause much less problem with impregnation.) Because of this position of the urethral opening, Catherine would have had to been in a direct, poured-into position in order to receive his issue as it trickled out. (Hypospadias is considered a fairly common birth defect, affecting approximately 1 in every 150 to 300 newborn boys. That makes it the second most prevalent congenital abnormality in males, after undescended testes. It is also becoming more common now because of the increasing amount of estrogen and estrogen-mimicking pollution in food [soy products], "healthcare" items [lilac shampoos, etc.], and the plastic in the environment.)

Catherine was by no means a “softie.” Great example of flawless manipulation.

I suspect it was some penile quirk like chordee, so the semen was heading in the wrong direction. This would make sense of why they tried “exhausting” positions. The easy remedy today - as far as conceiving is concerned - would be to use a turkey-baster. For them, repurposing the gear nirmally used for vaginal douches or enemas…?

Fantastic video. One can feel their powerful emotions between them. 💕

I can't really imagine a physical issue to be fixed by a sexual position. If there was an internal structure issue you'd need a MRI to detect it. But it would be a good way to disguise another man stepping in without the prince knowing after he was deemed infertile. She seems like a shrewd woman willing to go along with that. Maybe even the father depending on his age could have done the job.

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Perhaps Kathrine had a tipped uterus, making conception dependent on position during coitus.

He probably had hypospadias, a condition with incomplete closure of the shaft of the penis, so sperm comes out closer to his body, and not deep in her vagina near the cervix. Today it would just require collecting the sperm from the man, putting it in a long syringe and injecting it near her cervix. I can’t imagine how they did it.

Special Method: Have an attendant sneak in a stable boy under her skirts.

The husband was physically defective 12:44 !!!!! Not Catherine's fault.. Men too eager to blame the Woman.....!!!

Why do all the AI voices javelin bad accents, and why do they mispronounced words? Worse yet they can mispronounced the same word 3 or 4 different ways!

It was suggested that his member was crooked and her had to position herself just so for them to procreate. Hapsburgs had many defects due to interbreeding with relatives too often.

The usual method was top find a footman who bore a strong resemblance to His Majesty.

So there might be something to that... "mule urine" maybe not specifically, but the modern hormone replacement drug "Premarin" is made from "pregnant mare urine."

So what was the method?? 🙂

Great video, very full of information. But please get rid of this AI voice, which uses the wrong words. Hearing "concert" instead of "concort" in such an informative video is grating.

Excellent upload. Thank you. New sub.😊

Absolutely fascinating. Thanks for this video. Looking forward to finding out what happens next 😊

Thanks very much. It really was a precarious position, being expected to bear children as heirs to the throne. Sometimes their very lives depended on it.

Very captivating! I'll be looking for part 2, thanks very much. You have a splendid voice and cadence to narrate IMO.

I quite enjoy the narrator's voice, the soft lilt and cadence, the easy pronunciation of historical names.

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The phrase "Bonfire of the Vanities" inspired the name of a novel and then a movie -though both have nothing to do with Savanarola.

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Why the fuck did King Louis XIII’s younger brother Gaston, Duke of Orléans have blue eyes if King Louis XIII had brown eyes? 🎭🩰🎨

Wow this was really spicy back then!

Thank you the amazing and insightful video!

There really is no clear evidence Lucrezia Borgia ever poisoned anyone. What is clear she was a pawn of her father and brother. The incest story isn't verified either and most likely propaganda. Lucrezia was well loved by the people of Ferrara. Even though her third husband wasn't faithful to her Alfonso d' Este sincerely mourned her when she died.

Every pope is corrupted, they are just not caught , infact every religion's monks are corrupted after certain time of it's founder's demise.. Borgias power challenged powerful people, so they make them caught.. Imagine, there were more vile people than that & now we're finding most preist & monks were & are pedophiles.. Hell will be full of so called saints

I wish you would post more often

King Louis wants he himself good looking either *