Also known as jus primae noctis, droit de cuissage, droit de jambage, droit de la première nuit, droit de la premiere nuit, right of the lord, ius primae noctis
alleged legal right in medieval Europe allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women
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Vasily Polenov: Le droit du Seigneur (1874); artist's interpretation of an old man bringing his young daughters to their feudal lord.
Droit du seigneur ('right of the lord'), also known as jus primae noctis ('right of the first night', recently sometimes incorrectly referred to as prima nocta), was a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with any female subject, particularly on her wedding night. There are many references to the alleged custom throughout the centuries but little evidence that it actually existed.
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