【海外の反応】息子2人を人質に差し出して自分だけ逃げた王様、約束も全部破る…史上最低の父親エピソードが地獄すぎる

Father of the Year 1526

Apparently they were held under terrible conditions, with nobody except a puppy dog to keep them company, and after they were released, they had to re-learn how to speak french. Als their release was basically made possible only through crowd funding

>**After the peace was settled, Louise asked Margaret for authorization to send a representative to Spain to visit the princes in Pedrazza where they were jailed in the hopes of finding they had been treated well. Her special envoy Bordin returned to convey the most heartrending report of their plight. The poor boys were holed up in one room which was dark and damp. The only window of the room had iron bars on the inside and the outside. The only furniture was two little stools for them to sit on and a hard pallet for a bed.**

>**They had no education, no friends and nothing to occupy their time. Their only consolation was a small dog. Bordin asked Henri something in French and the boy asked his jailor to translate, demonstrating that the boys no longer knew how to speak French. When asked why, Henri replied all their French attendants had been dismissed so they had no one to speak to in French and were forced to learn Spanish to communicate with their jailors.**

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>Louise ordered her faithful deputies to gather the ransom by appealing to the entire country. The bourgeois and the clergy were fairly compliant in their payments. The nobles were more reticent and only agreed to pay their quarter of their income on the stipulation that it not set a precedent nor interfere with their seigniorial rights.

King François I of France’s Sons are Held Hostage by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V

In the early sixteenth century, the balance of power in Western Europe was a delicate dance between France, the Holy Rom...

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On top of all else, they literally had to watch their dad sail away as they were led to their captivity, they arrived with the same boat that he used to leave prison and then spend the next 3-4 years enjoying his life back in Paris

>The two boys had been growing up in a loving environment with their mother, their aunt Marguerite and grandmother Louise. They left the security of their family to be transferred to Spain in the middle of the Bidassoa River under the walls of the town of Fuenterrabia on an anchored platform. All people had been cleared from the bay for ten miles on either side. There were one thousand troops on guard. It was seven o’clock in the morning on February 17, 1526 as a boat left the Spanish shore carrying the King and a boat left the French shore carrying the princes. They met at the platform. The princes watched as their father walked over to them. He only had a short moment to quickly embrace them and give them a blessing before he stepped into the boat they had just left. The boys were whisked into the boat their father had just left and were taken to Spain.

I initially misread this title as the dad willingly handing himself over in exchange for his sons, with the kidnappers not honoring the terms, and thought “Wow everyone in the comments is being real harsh on the dad”

Woops

So, like, keeping royal sons as hostages is an age-old practice, but usually they were treated well. Like – lived at court, given a royal's education, and kept under close watch. All royals wanted to maintain the idea that royalty deserves luxury, and no one wanted to set a precedent for *their* kids or nobles to be treated like shit.

I imagine daddy reneging on everything he negotiated probably made the Habsburgs feel that the social contract was broken.

What the fuck….. As a father I can't even comprehend this. 

It’s pretty clear to me from all of history that “family” either meant something way tighter than we are familiar with now, or absolutely nothing.

Who writes these fuckin titles? Damn