medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
This is somewhat off the topic of this list, because so many of you are
> medievalists, perhaps you can direct me: I would like to find out
> anything I can about premature medieval babies. Do you know of any
> sources that mention a premature birth & an infant who survives?
Marjorie Bruce, only child of King Robert I of Scotland and wife of Walter
Stewart, Earl of Dunbar & March, was thrown from the horse she was riding
while heavily pregnant and (some say) gave birth to her son by the roadside.
In any case she died and was buried in nearby Paisley Abbey but the -
presumably premature - baby survived to become Robert II the Bruce of spider
fame.
Brenda
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