King Reson tried to marry three women at once.
He didn’t get away with it.
In the end, he chose the youngest, because, he said, she looked stronger and was more likely to bear fine children. She died after two years so he married another one. She bore him three sons before she, too, died. He proposed to the third, even though she had wed someone else, but she refused him. He pined for a few years before marrying a teenager who gave him another two sons.
For all the energy he spent on women, he was a surprisingly good ruler. He repaired many out-of-date laws and established a better judicial system, appointing three men in each district to take care of legal matters.
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