What happened in the Middle Ages when the first born of a family were twins?

by SyingKung
tim_mcdaniel

Pointing out previous postings is not to cut off further questions. It's just to point to previous answers to get you started. You can search the AskHistorians FAQ with a Google query like

twin inurl:reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq

(I find the built-in Reddit search to be far less useful, missing lots of hits, and I think it doesn't search the FAQ.)

The two FAQ items currently are

If you do a Reddit built-in search for

twin

you'll get 20 hits for the question. I'm afraid I haven't bothered to look into them, except where I answered the same question 4 months ago, where I added