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Bastarda type in Fry's Pantographia. Bastarda or bastard was a blackletter script used in France, the Burgundian Netherlands and Germany during the 14th and 15th centuries. The Burgundian variant of script can be seen as the court script of the Dukes of Burgundy.
The Bastard of Vaurus, defended the French town in the siege of Meaux in 1422; Corneille, bastard of Burgundy (1420–1452), illegitimate son of Philip the Good; Geoffrey, the Bastard, Geoffrey, Archbishop of York (c. 1152–1212), illegitimate son of Henry II, King of England; Harry the Bastard, from the British 1990s television series Bottom
Bastard, an archaic term used in English and Welsh bastardy laws, reformed in 1926; ... Vyvyan Basterd, character in 80s British comedy series The Young Ones;
Bastard is a blackletter typeface designed by Jonathan Barnbrook in 1990. The name derives from a typographic classification known as Bastarda . The Bastard face is an exploration of the blackletter face (the earliest types, similar to those made by Gutenberg, and based upon monastic script) with a simple kit of parts.
Bastardy was not a status, like villeinage, but the fact of being a bastard had a number of legal effects on an individual.One exception to the general principle that a bastard could not inherit occurred when the eldest son (who would otherwise be heir) was born a bastard but the second son was born after the parents were married.
Following his stint in the Basterds, Pitt took another Oscar-nominated role, Billy Beane in 2011's biographical sports drama Moneyball, and captured strict mid-century fatherhood in The Tree of ...
Conversely, illegitimacy, also known as bastardy, has been the status of a child born outside marriage, such a child being known as a bastard, a love child, a natural child, or illegitimate. In Scots law , the terms natural son and natural daughter carry the same implications.
A bastard is defined as a "(child) born out of wedlock or of adultery, illegitimate". [1] In other words, a bastard is any child that is born from the result of a sexual encounter between a man and a woman who are not married to each other; if either party is married, the couple has committed adultery.