Published: 2023-11-30

Expecting a Child in the Royal Family in the 15th and 16th Century Poland

Agnieszka Januszek-Sieradzka Logo ORCID

Abstract

The image childhood of royal children is a necessary addition to that of childhood in medieval and modern Poland. It should be noted that the expectation of a royal child had two dimensions, a readily apparent public one and a difficult-to-trace private one. A queen’s destiny for motherhood was emphasised in the process of her becoming the queen, which was divided into stages. In the history the Jagiellonian wives as mothers — six out of eleven wives were also mothers — there were numerous successful deliveries but there were also some miscarriages. The important issues in the research on this period include the queens’ behaviour during their pregnancies, their relationships with the husbands, their following of medical, healthcare, and midwife recommendations, their undertaking of various activities, the securing of the needs of the expected child, and, finally, the way they used this time to build their position and the image of queenship.

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Januszek-Sieradzka, A. (2023). Expecting a Child in the Royal Family in the 15th and 16th Century Poland. Wieki Stare I Nowe, 18(23), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.31261/WSN.2023.23.03

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Vol. 18 No. 23 (2023)
Published: 2024-02-09


ISSN: 1899-1556
eISSN: 2353-9739

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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