How were dwarves of noble birth treated?

by BashfulDaschund

Instances of dwarves being born to nobility had to have occurred. Were they simply hidden away (which is what I assume was done)? Or is there any instance of them/one being treated as one would treat anyone else of noble birth? I apologize if this is a repost question (I figure someone has asked something similar due to the popularity of Game of Thrones, I just didn't find the answer). Thanks.

(Edit) Thanks to all, for the answers you have given. I'll clarify my question a bit. I am curious about dwarves of noble birth, spanning from the beginning of written record, all the way through the mid twentieth century. Again, thanks for taking the time to respond my question.

Capt_Blackadder

There is not much records of dwarfs in the nobility they were rumours that Matilda of Flanders was a dwarf at 4 foot 2 but I believe those are inaccurate, she was short though at around 5 foot. She ended up married to William the Conqueror so you could take that been short was no barrier to high class. However if you want to know about a Tyrion like person in reality you just have to read the story of Jeffrey Hudson.

The only have noble dwarf that I can think of is "Count" Boruwlaski who appears to be the child of poor nobles. Since there is no evidence of other dwarfs of noble birth unfortunately your question is to me unanswerable unless we have an expert who knows a lot more on the topic then I do.

swiley1983

According to The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation by Betty M. Adelson, p. 46 the first Carolingian King of the Franks "Pepin le Bref (the Short)" was not in fact a short man; he was dubbed "the Short" centuries after his death. Adelson writes that his even more illustrious son Charlemagne did in fact have a dwarf son, Pepin II. Most other sources call him [Pippin the Hunchback] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippin_the_Hunchback) whose legitimacy is under dispute, and who led a rebellion against his father, leading to his expulsion and disinheritance.

The monk Notker the Stammerer, in his De Carolo Magno ("Concerning Charles the Great") / Gesta Caroli Magni ("The Deeds of Charles the Great"), describes Pippin as "a dwarf and a hunchback." With respect to the treatment of Pippin as a little person, I am not seeing any credible primary sources. It is said that he was regarded with sympathy when Charlemagne dismissed him and his mother Himiltrude in preference to younger brothers Charles the Younger and Carloman, himself renamed Pippin, and Louis, who resulted out of his 12-year marriage to Hildegard of Vinzgouw, but those sympathies soured upon Pippin's decision to revolt in 792.