whatilearned
Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor#Marriage_and_private_life
TIL that Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor had an extramarital sexual relationship with his own step-grandmother, Germaine de Foix, who was one of his many mistresses. Charles later married his first cousin, Isabella of Portugal. His sister, Eleanor, married Isabella’s father and her uncle, King Manuel.
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the Venn diagrams of this would make one dizzy no doubt
*Alabama whimpers*
This family is straight out of some logical reasoning exam
step-grandmother?..so he basically fucked a cougar?
All in the name of keeping a “pure” bloodline. Their kids probably looked like Gollum.
[This](https://youtu.be/0VxLQZPqI2M) always comes to mind when talking about European royal families.
Keep it in the family…
I still don’t understand this and cousin marriages are still prevalent today in certain cultures/religious groups. In denial that birth defects can be attributed to this practice.