Did Maleficent want Aurora dead because she was not invited to the party
just wondering her motive
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shareMakes me wonder who was more petty. Maleficent placing a death curse on a baby for not being invited to a party, or the Evil Queen wanting her stepdaughter dead for being prettier than she was.
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She felt insulted and disrespected for not receiving an invite (and Maryweather's "You weren't wanted" didn't help). So she punished the parents by cursing their child. Note that she didn't just kill Aurora on the spot, but made it so her death would hang over her and her family for 16, allowing relationships and bonds to form before having that stripped away.
It wasn't Aurora that Maleficent had a grudge against, she was just a means to punish the parents.
Maleficent was disrespected and took revenge on the Aurora's parents more than Aurora. Killing an infant in medieval times wouldn't mean much anyway. In reality, the queen would be giving birth to 10 babies and maybe a few survive birth, let alone infancy.
shareActually, it was pretty rare for a medieval king to have ten *legitimate* children (non-legitimate children couldn't inherit, no matter how plentiful they were), and there were several instances where a king and queen had fertility problems and there was only one child, or no child for years and years (like Henry VI and Henry VIII). Did you know that as a child King Louis XIV of France was called "Louis the God-Given", because his parents had been married for 23 years with no children?
And I assume there was some such issue with Aurora's parents, she's an only child born to parents who look like grownups, which does sort of imply years of waiting as people married in their mid-teens in those days. As such, a long-awaited only child would be regarded as the single most precious thing in the universe.
Note that she didn't just kill Aurora on the spot, but made it so her death would hang over her and her family for 16, allowing relationships and bonds to form before having that stripped away.And adding to that, by killing Aurora, Maleficent is effectively ending King Stefan's only heir to the throne. Possibly even ending King Hubert's line as Philip would have no one else to marry if there were only two kingdoms that got along.
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Why would king Hubert's line end? Its not like Phillip couldn't marry a noble girl from his own Kingdom. The only reason he was married to Aurora is to join the two kingdoms.
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But it wouldn't have been potentially or even likely unless Prince Phillip up and died. Anyhow, Aurora was not needed and the notion of the line ending is far-fetched.
shareWould King Hubert's line end in general? No. But that's only if Philip ended up with a non royal woman. It would be unlikely that Philip's future children would be considered royalty unless Hubert changes the rules. But if he doesn't, his royal line of succession would effectively end if Philip did not marry another royal. Whatever children Philip would have with a woman who isn't of royalty or nobility would unlikely be considered a legitimate heir to the throne. Not as far-fetched as you think it is.
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The idea that Eruopean royalty should only marry other members of European Royalty only got started about the beginning of the Renaissance. Since the number of European royal families was very small, the great noble families in the Holy Roman Empire who ruled over principalities were considered equals pf royalty when it came to marriage.
In the Middle Ages there was no rule that someone had to have a royal princess as their mother to be eligible to inherit the throne. The mothers of English monarchs are a good example, since many had English or foreign noblewomen as their mothers.
King Edward VI, Queen Mary, and Queen Elizabeth were children of Henry VIII, 2 English noblewomen, and a Spanish princess. Henry VIII was the son of Henry VII & English Princess Elizabeth of York. Elizabeth of York & her brother Edward V were children of King Edward IV & noblewomen Elizaberth Woodville. Edward IV was the son of a royal duke & an English noblewoman.
Henry VI was the son of King Henry V & a French royal princess. Henry V was the son of Henry IV & an English noblewomen. Henry IV was the son of a royal Duke & a more distant member of the royal family.
Richard II, deposed in 1399, ws the son of the Prince of Wales & an English noblewoman. Edward III was the son of Edward II & a French royal princess. Edward II was the son of Edward I & a Spanish royal princess. Edward I was the son of Henry III & the daughter of a French count related to royalty. Henry III was the son of King John & a French countess.
John and his brother Richard I were sons of Henry II & a French duchess. Henry II was the son of a French count & an English princess. King Stephen was a French count, son of a French count & an English princess. Henry I and Wiliam II were sons of French duke William I who invaded and usurped the throne in 1066.
So there was no medieval rule that royalty could only marry royalty.
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