Its not just the nobility, the middle class (blacksmiths, shop owners, alchemists) were also into arranged marriages
of course Europeans are not Chinese, they are not jews, they would not sell out their own daughter for the highest bidder, as it would yield poor results and very few offspring
i assume you got peppered with tales of "evil dads selling their daughters to old ass men for money" and granted there always was such cases but they were few and far between
fun fact about marriage in the medieval era, if the marriage wasn't consummated within weeks (i.e husband and wife fucking) the marriage would be null and void
the whole point of marriage in the medieval era was largely reproduction with an emphasis on keeping the genes pure from the "unwashed masses"
esp in the HRE where tradesman and craftsman would make business alliances with other tradesmen/craftsmen would who benefit both sides from the union of their families
granted the downsides of arranged marriages that its "not love based" and thus fallible, but if you apply a modicum of white morality and logic it would definitely work for whites
fightknightHERO 1 points 3.3 years ago
Its not just the nobility, the middle class (blacksmiths, shop owners, alchemists) were also into arranged marriages
of course Europeans are not Chinese, they are not jews, they would not sell out their own daughter for the highest bidder, as it would yield poor results and very few offspring
i assume you got peppered with tales of "evil dads selling their daughters to old ass men for money" and granted there always was such cases
but they were few and far between
fun fact about marriage in the medieval era, if the marriage wasn't consummated within weeks (i.e husband and wife fucking) the marriage would be null and void
the whole point of marriage in the medieval era was largely reproduction with an emphasis on keeping the genes pure from the "unwashed masses"
esp in the HRE where tradesman and craftsman would make business alliances with other tradesmen/craftsmen would who benefit both sides from the union of their families
granted the downsides of arranged marriages that its "not love based" and thus fallible, but if you apply a modicum of white morality and logic
it would definitely work for whites
after all, it has worked in the past...