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The first recorded incident of Mooning resulted In the deaths on 10,000 Jews
In 80 AD, Flavius Josephus recorded the first known incident of mooning. Josephus recorded that in the procuratorship of V... View MoreThe first recorded incident of Mooning resulted In the deaths on 10,000 Jews
In 80 AD, Flavius Josephus recorded the first known incident of mooning. Josephus recorded that in the procuratorship of Ventidius Cumanus (48-52 AD), at around the beginning of the First Roman–Jewish War, a soldier in the Roman army mooned Jewish pilgrims at the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem who had gathered for Passover, and "spake such words as you might expect upon such a posture" causing a riot in which youths threw stones at the soldiers, who then called in reinforcements—the pilgrims panicked, and the ensuing stampede resulted in the death of ten thousand Jews.
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With proper context, it's one of the most wholesome stories to ever come out of the Medieval Era.
To start it all off, Richard and his first wife, Anne of Bohemia, had a startlingly romantic relation... View MoreWith proper context, it's one of the most wholesome stories to ever come out of the Medieval Era.
To start it all off, Richard and his first wife, Anne of Bohemia, had a startlingly romantic relationship for a royal couple (married as teenagers, doted on each other to the point of constantly wearing each other's initials embroidered on their clothes, had an entire house built that no one was allowed into but them) and when she died unexpectedly of plague he initially resisted every attempt to get him to remarry out of mourning for her. To emphasize how much her death seems to have affected him, he had the house where she died completely razed to the ground and then commissioned a double tomb for them both so that he could be interred with her when he died. (Iirc it was the first double tomb at Westminster and it initially depicted Richard and Anne holding hands, as per his specifications.) Since his reign was especially unstable, Richard II's advisors pushed him aggressively to remarry and have kids as soon as possible, something he resisted for 3 years before pressure from the Nobles proved unbearable.
Then, opportunity arrived in the form of a proposal made by Charles VI of France, for the hand in marriage of his 6-year old daughter; Isabella. Richard accepted such a young wife because it enabled him to unofficially extend his period of mourning for Anne without infuriating his Nobles. When his advisors expressed concerns about her age - not because of the ick factor but because she was too young to produce heirs any time soon, Richard specifically emphasized that he was plenty young enough to wait another decade or so before having children.
Once they were married, Richard II seems to have had minimal contact with 6-year-old Isabella. He hired her private tutors and nannies, gave her a house, and then pretty much ignored her except for occasional visits, which she later recorded that she had looked forward to because he brought her presents and because she considered him funny and charming.
When Richard was deposed by Henry Bolingbroke, he tried to bully Isabella into remaining in England and marrying his son, but she refused and returned to France with her dowry.
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