In the late fourteenth century, the Anglo-Norman author Jean d’Arras, at the behest of the Duc de Berry, wrote an account of the fantastic ancestry of the House of Lusignan: Specifically, Count Raymond of Poitou had married a fey woman, Melusine, upon condition that he never observe her on a Saturday, and their union produced …

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