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Died on this day in 1321 aged 66 Marie of Brabant(my toy,wikipedia). Queen consort of France and mother of Edward I's wife, as the 2nd wife of the King she was not the mother of the next King of France. She had married the Philip when she was 20, which is an improvement on Philip's first wife who was 14... Young marriages were not especially common at the time, but were quite common amongst royalty and the nobility.

Born on this day in 156 Duke Charles I of Savoy(my toy,wikipedia). He married one of the daughters of Philip II of Spain, who was the husband of Mary I; she (the wife) was his 2nd cousin. He was the only child of his parents, and had 10 children with his wife; this range of number-of-children is not especially unusual.

( witterings about fertility rates; inc miscarriage, infertility, infant and maternal mortality and other sad and triggery things )