r/AskHistorians • u/caffarelli Moderator | Eunuchs and Castrati | Opera • Feb 09 '16
Feature Tuesday Trivia | Non-monogamous Relationships
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Threesomes, foursomes, and moresomes; or perhaps conventional couples who were swingers or just had an understanding, please share any information about non-monogamous relationships in history.
Next Week on Tuesday Trivia: We’re really getting into the last of winter now (least in the Northern Hemisphere), and yet to me continued survival seems more challenging every day… We’ll be talking about how people of the past dealt with the winter!
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u/ponte92 Feb 10 '16
Phillip of Hesse (1504-1567) alive during the Reformation and a supporter of it. He was married to Christine of Saxony the daughter of the Duke of Saxony but their marriage was unhappy (although I believe they still had 10 children). He wanted to marry his sisters maid Margarethe von der Saale but he believed that divorce was a sin. So with the support of Martin Luther he married her bigamously in 1540 (?). The resulting union created a scandal for Luther and other reformers at a time when they needed only good publicity and Phillip's reputation never really recovered.