The BRUTAL Life of a Medieval Bastard | History For Sleep

Get early episodes & bonus perks on Patreon: https://patreon.com/DrowsyHistorianBeing born a bastard in medieval Europe wasn’t just a social inconvenience — it was a lifelong sentence of exclusion, humiliation, and legal invisibility. In this quietly brutal bedtime tale, we walk the mud-caked path of someone born into the wrong family, at the wrong time, under the wrong circumstances. From cradle to grave, discover how illegitimacy shaped every aspect of life: childhood, love, work, religion, and even death.This isn’t the story of the lucky few who rose to fame. This is the forgotten truth of the many who didn’t — the ones who served, suffered, and vanished.So dim the lights. Settle in. And let the Drowsy Historian guide you through a story that was never supposed to be told — the weary, thankless life of a medieval bastard.