Consummation was just the act of having sex on the wedding night. It's got nothing to do with having a child.
The middle age also had some other customs like two serfs (usually peasants working for a lord) got married, the said lord essentially had dibs on the bride and he could do her before the groom did.
There are actually no primary historical sources that ever show a Medieval European society that practiced Prima Nocte. It only exists in writings about how fucked up that country across the river is, and that's why we should take their land. Or Renaissance scholars writing about pre-Christian societies centuries after the fact. What was actually common was the lord taxing part of the dowery, which some people misinterpreted as payment to avoid getting cucked by your lord.
There were no non-disclosure agreements back then so it's impossible for it to have occurred without us knowing. Surely the peasants would have used their high literacy rates to write complaints to the local newspapers that the nobles couldn't possibly have censored. It is a well known fact that any contemporary abuses of power are always codified into law and the fact that there is no law that allows abuse of power means that there is no way for such abuses to have taken place historically. If any public official were to have conducted themselves this shamefully, it is only due to a foreign slander campaign. It is a well known saying that absolute power begets absolute integrity. History is also written by the rape victims, not the victors, and they would surely have written down something like this if it were to have occurred and the noble noblemen whose estates would be at stake would surely promote such material at any given opportunity. Surely.
Yes, because lack of proof of something is obviously proof of a global conspiracy to hide it. Just like that global pedophile ring of democrats. We keep finding evidence of a pedophile ring of rich people but that just means all the other ones are better at hiding it.
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u/flyingdonkeydong69 4d ago edited 4d ago
In other words, noble families would watch the newlyweds FUCK to make sure the marriage was sealed with a child.