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JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, or DROIT DU SEIGNEUR

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 593 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: JUN-KHA
JUS PRIMAE NOCTIS, or DROIT DU SEIGNEUR , a custom alleged to have existed in medieval Europe, giving the overlord a right to the virginity of his vassals' daughters on their
wedding
 -night. For the existence of the custom in a legalized form there is no trustworthy evidence. That some such abuse of power may have been occasionally exercised by brutal nobles in the lawless days of the early middle ages is only too likely, but the jus, it seems, is a myth, invented no earlier than the 16th or 17th
century
 . There appears to have been an entirely religious custom established by the
council
  of Carthage in 398, whereby the
Church
  required from the faithful continence on the
wedding
 -night, and this may havebeen, and there is evidence that it was, known as
Droit
  du Seigneur, or " God's right." Later theclerical admonition was extended to the first three days of
marriage
 . This religious abstention, added to the undoubted fact that the feudal lord extorted fines on the marriages of his vassals and their children, doubtless gave rise to the belief that the jus was once an established custom.
The whole subject has been exhaustively treated by Louis Veuillot in Le
Droit
  du seigneur au moyen age (1854).


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