Nah, if we’re comparing them to feudal failsons, these are the sorts of kids that nobles would send off to become monks. They wouldn’t be any good at ruling effectively or really doing much, but they’d be in a monastery and out of the way.
Most of those monks were actually legitimate of otherwise worthwhile enough to keep as backups or political tools. The ones I’m talking about are the bastards who legit had no use outside of dying because they thought having some blue blood made them the greatest thing since Julius Caesar.
Nah, if we’re comparing them to feudal failsons, these are the sorts of kids that nobles would send off to become monks. They wouldn’t be any good at ruling effectively or really doing much, but they’d be in a monastery and out of the way.
Most of those monks were actually legitimate of otherwise worthwhile enough to keep as backups or political tools. The ones I’m talking about are the bastards who legit had no use outside of dying because they thought having some blue blood made them the greatest thing since Julius Caesar.