Hi everyone,
I was reading some Wikipedia articles about European French and English medieval queens who were often born in other, often not so geographically close, countries (e.x. the modern Czech Republic or in Kievan Rus) to the local rulers/kings and got a question.
After a future queen/princess was shipped off to another country, did they ever see their parents (who were rulers) again? Because traveling would take a much longer time than it would today and I suppose high nobility could not afford to *waste time* to visit relatives. Or could they?
Thank you!
PS. English is not my first language, so I hope I expressed myself clearly enough :)
There is always much more than can be said about this, but I answered a very similar question a few months ago!
Would medieval princesses ever see their families again after being married off to far away kingdoms
The Four Queens of Provence by Nancy Goldstone is an interesting read about highborn women marrying across France and England but still keeping in touch and seeing each other and their mother frequently. Two of the daughters married Henry III of England and his brother, and the others married the (then) Dauphin of France and his brother Charles. Doesn’t exactly prove that every princess or highborn daughter saw their parents again but it’s an interesting read.