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  2. Bastard - Wikipedia

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    Bastard of Winterfell, alias name of Jon Snow (character), in Game of Thrones; Bastardia, a genus of flowering plants; Bastardisation (disambiguation)

  3. English and Welsh bastardy laws - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Bastard feudalism - Wikipedia

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    Bastard feudalism is a somewhat controversial term invented by 19th-century historians to characterise the form feudalism took in the Late Middle Ages, primarily in England. Its distinctive feature is that middle-ranking figures rendered military, political, legal, or domestic service in return for money, office, or influence.

  5. Colonial American bastardy laws - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Legitimacy (family law) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Royal bastard - Wikipedia

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    A royal bastard is a child of a reigning monarch born out of wedlock. The king might have a child with a mistress , or the legitimacy of a marriage might be questioned for reasons concerning succession.

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  9. Mamzer - Wikipedia

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    As he is known to have been a bastard and reputed to have had a Jewish mother, this nickname is considered to be derived from mamzer. A similar explanation is offered also for the same nickname as used by another prince from Occitania: Arnaud Manzer , a 10th-century count of Angoulême who also was a bastard.