his patrician parents were very slow to accept his lowborn wife
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Ser Luthor Largent is introduced as a lowborn knight and office on the City Watch.—Nick Romano, EW.com, 23 Apr. 2025 Few spoke up for the man viewed by many as a lowborn upstart, but Cromwell, his faithful servant, was the exception, petitioning Henry at great risk to his own reputation.—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025 Often described as the lowborn son of a blacksmith, he was born around 1485 in Putney, a village west of the City of London.—Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Mar. 2025 Nor was there a payoff to the mounting tensions in capital city King’s Landing, where Rhaenyra’s lowborn advisor Mysaria (Sonoya Mizuno) has been sowing the seeds of rebellion among the common people.—Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024 Gawain, himself, is pissed that their lord father has been unseated as Hand by such a lowborn creature.—Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 1 July 2024 Instead, Nero fell hard for a lowborn freedwoman named Acte.—Gaia Squarci, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Sep. 2020 Question 1 Who are Jon Snow's parents? A. Ned Stark and Catelyn Stark
B. Ned Stark and a lowborn woman
C. Lyanna Stark and Rhaegar Targaryen
D. Lyanna Stark and Robert Baratheon
Correct!—Megan McCluskey, Time, 27 June 2017 The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta tells the story of a ship captain’s daughter who falls in love with a lowborn sailor, against her father’s wishes.—Jillian S. Jarrett, Washington Post, 17 May 2017
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