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The Catholic Church's position is that marriage is sacred and sexual relations should only happen between husband and wife.

Well what about early/high medivial kings who committed fornication or adultery, but were otherwise good? I mean this includes benevolence, laid-off, keeps the law and order without tyranny, and of course being friends and doing favors for the Church. And for arguments sake, I'm limiting the cases to where the consort doesn't (openly) complain about the situation since that makes it simpler.

So how does the Church deal with them? They can't pretend fornication and adultery don't happen given the sheer number of bastards. Yet at the same time the Church can't make an enemy out of all of them. It would be politically stupid to make a fuss out of it to hypothetical King A who is in favor domestically and did favor after favor to Pope after Pope. Just congratulate them on a job well done and ask them to be a bit more faithful in the future? If an out of favor noble (as in even the other nobles, his oldest son, and his own serfs aren't fond of him so making an enemy out of him isn't a big deal) inside King A's realm points out the obvious adultery of King A to a church bishop do they go "la la la, I can't hear you"?
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