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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
In an age with little effective birth control this isn't exactly a large family, not to mention most gay men in this time had to marry anyway and had kids as best they could for appearences sake (they tended to be hung otherwise) he lived most of his life apart from his wife so the infactuation didn't run that deep.
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First of all, you could be right. BUT! This is very poor evidence for gayness.
Charlemagne had 6 wives and umpteen number of lovers. He spent MOST of his life on the road expanding and or guarding his conquests. He had only 2 heirs, who eventually split his empire.
Tutor Kings were a dearth of children. Scottish kings could sire either. The French and the Burundians were horrid too. Numerous Kings has this problem. Genetics? Inbreeding? Bad lifestyles?