In the middle ages, did the king and queen's children live at home after they got married?

Question

Castles are so big...you'd think more than just the king, queen, and their servants would live there...

Answer 1

Their sons lived at home after marriage.

Their daughters went to go live with their new husband's families. After the daughters were married away, they weren't considered to be part of the family anymore.

Answer 2

Most royal children lived in a separate dwelling from their parents usually out in the country where the air is cleaner. So really, these royal children technically never "lived" with their parents anyways. Each royal offspring had their own "household" filled with a governess, maids, servants, coachman, tutors, cooks etc. These royal children usually see their parents during big events and than sent off again after the celebrations.

Depending who a princess marries, if it was another King, she would move in with him. If he was a lesser rank without his own home, he would move in with her. As for a prince, he will probably have his new bride move in with him, and if she got her own place too from inheritance, they might make it their second country house for their future generation.

Answer 3

ummm.....I think they moved out...??

Idk really.

Answer 4

of course they did why do you think there was so much incest in the royal family

Answer 5

idk but probably not

Answer 6

Royal princes very often didn't live "at home" with their parents anyway; it might be quite a rare event for them to see their parents or brothers and sisters. From a very early age they would have their own households and their own estates (often whole provinces) which theoretically they ruled themselves. In practice, the monarch would appoint a governor of the prince's household, who would take all the decisions till the boy was of age (which was usually about 15).

For example, the eldest son of the King of England was always made the Prince of Wales, and was sent off - often when no more than a toddler - to the Welsh border to "govern Wales".  The future Henry V was sent off in this way as soon as his father became King, when he was only 13: Harry Hotspur was his governor. The future Edward V (one of the "Princes in the Tower") "governed" Wales from Ludlow from the age of 10.

Royal princesses weren't normally given their own estates in this way, and sometimes did live with their parents. But they too were often provided with separate households, partly so that they could stay peacefully in the same place doing their lessons - mediaeval kings didn't stay long in any one place but were constantly travelling up and down their kingdoms, which wasn't really healthy or practical for small children. Royal daughters might also be sent to convents as a kind of "boarding school" till they were old enough to be married, when they would certainly go and live with their husbands - the only exception to this was when a princess was the heir to the kingdom, in which case her husband would come and live with her.

As for royal castles being big - of course they were; they were military and government buildings. As well as being home to the king's family, they had to accommodate the royal council and administration, plus a barracks for the garrison, plus, in times of war, refugees from miles around and enough cattle and sheep to feed everyone during a siege.

Answer 7

Not really. Diseases were so prevalent back then that children, especially heirs to the throne, were kept in different households.  This would, hopefully, prevent a disease from wiping out the whole royal family at once.

Answer 8

In the Middle Ages, marriages of princes and princesses were arranged affairs to cement political alliances. They never lived at home, rather, the princesses lived in the castle of the prince they wed, who always had his own home.