[Sca-cooks] OT - - What do you call?

[Stefan li Rous]

Phlip answered me with:
> --- Stefan li Rous <stefan at texas.net> wrote:
> > Should they verify this, as the story goes (probably
> > a bit of
> > Protestant propaganda) the Catholic Church does, to
> > check that the
> > perspective Pope is indeed male? Of course for some
> > of the Popes
> > there was no doubt, as they had offspring...
>
> Stefan, perhaps you might want to check your own files
> on babies in period? Last I heard, women had
> offspring, too- and when a woman has offspring, she
> KNOWS it's hers.....

Sigh. Okay, I had trouble wording that and it's not that clear.
I was referring to the fact that, despite various Church pronouncments
that lower level clergy should not get married or have mistresses,
more than a few Popes did. Obviously in that case, they were not
'fixed' and thus wouldn't need to be verified. I was specifically
thinking of the Medici (sp?) Pope that was sleeping with his
daughter.

And no, I don't have info on this in the Florilegium. I thought I
did, but I can't find it. It must have been in one of the books
I read or a Rialto conversation I didn't read.

'Lainie? Got anything to add? (or correct?)

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THLord Stefan li Rous    Barony of Bryn Gwlad    Kingdom of Ansteorra
   Mark S. Harris            Austin, Texas          stefan at texas.net
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