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The purchase of concubine was similar to the purchase of a servant or slave, yet concubines had a higher social status. [3] In the earliest times a man could have as many concubines as he could afford to purchase. From the Eastern Han period (AD 25–220) onward, the number of concubines a man could have was limited by law.
The children of the concubine often had equal rights with those of the wife; [154] for example, King Abimelech was the son of Gideon and his concubine. [158] Later biblical figures, such as Gideon and Solomon, had concubines in addition to many childbearing wives. For example, the Books of Kings say that Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines ...
An imperial woman who had attained the rank of concubine and above would be given a residence in the main section of one of the palace in the inner court of the Forbidden City and become its mistress (主位, zhǔwèi), and when being addressed by lower ranked imperial concubines and servants, she would have to be called your imperial highness ...
A cariye or imperial concubine.. The Imperial Harem (Ottoman Turkish: حرم همايون, romanized: Harem-i Hümâyûn) of the Ottoman Empire was the Ottoman sultan's harem – composed of the concubines, wives, servants (both female slaves and eunuchs), female relatives and the sultan's concubines – occupying a secluded portion (seraglio) of the Ottoman imperial household. [1]
Although usage of the word concubina during the Roman Empire poses ambiguities of role and status, the difference between the Imperial-era concubine as a subject of legal interest and a paelex or extralegal concubine during the Republic is fairly straightforward: the paelex was a woman "installed" by a married man as a sexual rival to his wife, [8] whereas the concubina was a wife-like ...
In Morocco, most slaves were black, [citation needed] and the 19th-century American journalist Stephen Bonsal remarked that high ranking Moroccan officials were sons of black concubines. [citation needed] Most Moroccan men remained monogamous as it was too expensive to have a concubine (or second wife), [141] while wealthy Moroccan men took ...
The most famous member of the Ayyubid harem was Shajar al-Durr, who enterred as a slave concubine, was manumitted by the birth of an awknowledged child and, in a unique case, conquered the throne after the death of her former enslaver. The wife or concubine who had given birth to the designated heir to the throne, had the highest rank of the harem.
By early 650, Consort Wu was a concubine of Emperor Gaozong, and she had the title Zhaoyi, the highest ranking concubine of the nine concubines in the second rank. Wu progressively gained immeasurable influence over the governance of the empire throughout Emperor Gaozong's reign.