Amasis worrying that his daughter would be a concubine to the Persian king refused to give up his offspring ; Amasis also was not willing to take on the Persian empire so he concocted a trickery in which he forced the daughter of the ex-pharaoh Apries, whom Herodotus explicitly confirms to have been killed by Amasis, to go to Persia instead of his own offspring.

His concubines were: Nükhet-seza Hanimefendi: First concubine ; Ayşe Hanımefendi: Second concubine.

The children of a concubine were recognized as legal offspring of the father ; though their inheritance rights may have been inferior to younger children of a marriage, or they may have received a smaller inheritance.

The children of the concubine had equal rights with those of the legitimate wife ; for example, King Abimelech was the son of Gideon and his concubine.

Certain Jewish thinkers, such as Maimonides, believed that concubines are strictly reserved for kings, and thus that a commoner may not have a concubine ; indeed, such thinkers argued that commoners may not engage in any type of sexual relations outside of a marriage.

A concubine's treatment and situation were highly variable, influenced by the social status of the male to whom she was engaged, as well as the attitude of the wife ; the position of the concubine was generally inferior to that of the wife.

* Princess Hikage, daughter of Emperor Senka probably by a concubine ; third consort ; 1 imperial Prince:

Quote: " Further, in their secret meetings they said that the Christ who was born in the earthly and visible Bethlehem and crucified at Jerusalem was ' evil ', and that Mary Magdalene was his concubine – and that she was the woman taken in adultery who is referred to in the Scriptures ; the ' good ' Christ, they said, neither ate nor drank nor assumed the true flesh and was never in this world, except spiritually in the body of Paul.

The author of Bibliotheke ( 3. 197-198 ) records the fidelity charm she placed upon Minos, who would ejaculate serpents and scorpions, killing any unlawful concubine ; but Procris, with a protective herb, lay with Minos with impunity.

Al-Nadim then writes about the Persian Hazār Afsān, explaining the frame story it employs: a bloodthirsty king kills off a succession of wives after their wedding night ; finally one concubine had the intelligence to save herself by telling him a story every evening, leaving each tale unfinished until the next night so that the king would delay her execution.

Of Phoenix's life before the Trojan War it is related that he was falsely accused by his father's concubine, Phthia or Clytia, of an attempt to seduce her ; alternatively, he actually did seduce her at the instigation of his mother.

If the wife did this, the Code did not allow the husband to take a concubine ; but if she did not, he could do so.

The concubine was a co-wife, though not of the same rank ; the first wife had no power over her.

Perrund was once the Protector's prized concubine, which changed following an assassination attempt on UrLeyn ; Perrund shielded the Protector with her body, saving his life at the cost of crippling her left arm.

** Lady Liu ( 劉氏 ), originally a maid to Yuan Shikai's fifth concubine Lady Yang ; mother of Yuan Kefan and Yuan Yizhen

In some legends, Helen was his mother ; in most, however, he was Menelaus's son by a concubine, Pieris or Tereis, and was born during the Trojan War.

Several sources assert that the widower John Wayles took his slave Betty Hemings as a concubine and had six children by her during the last 12 years of his life ; the youngest was Sally Hemings.

After his death, his oldest son Adarnases ( Adur-Narseh ), who had a cruel disposition, was killed by the grandees after a very short reign ; another son, Hormizd, was held prisoner, while the throne was reserved for the child of his concubine, Shapur II.

Scytale finally offers Paul a ghola of his deceased concubine Chani, cloned from her cells, in exchange for his throne ; Paul refuses and kills Scytale.

He may have also married the sister of Abdul Hakim Khan, the nawab of Savanur ; Bowring describes it as a marriage, but Punganuri Rao's translator, citing Wilks, claims this was a " concubine marriage ".

Abraham, Sarah and Hagar, imagined here in a Bible illustration from 1897 ; Muslims maintain that Hagar was taken as Abraham's wife, which is mentioned also in Genesis 16: 3 but not as a slave or concubine as noted in the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Wu was a concubine of Emperor Taizong ; and, after his death she then married Taizong's successor and 9th son, Emperor Gaozong, officially becoming Gaozong's furen ( variously translated as " empress ", " wife ", or " first consort "), in 655, although having considerable political power previous to this.

Arnulf was, according to most sources, the illegitimate son of Carloman, King of Bavaria, and his concubine Liutswind, perhaps of Carantanian origin, and possibly the sister of Ernst, Count of the Bavarian Nordgau Margraviate in the area of the Upper Palatinate, or perhaps the burgrave of Passau, as some sources say.

Though no longer as prized as a concubine, Perrund is highly regarded by UrLeyn, DeWar, and most of Tassasen society.

The term is most commonly applied to a woman in a legally sanctioned marriage, and not to a woman in another cohabitation relationship such as a concubine, mistress etc.

However, Guangxu detested Empress Longyu, and spent most of his time with his favourite concubine Consort Zhen (), ( better known in English as the " Pearl Consort ").

Among the most famous were Thargelia, a renowned Ionian hetaera of ancient times ; Aspasia, companion of Pericles ; Archeanassa, companion of Plato ; the famous Neaira ; Thaïs, a concubine of Ptolemy, who was one of the generals on the expeditions of Alexander the Great and later became king of Egypt ; Lais of Corinth, the famed beauty who lived during the Peloponnesian War ; Lais of Hyccara, a courtesan who is said to have provided her services to the philosopher Diogenes free of charge ; and the famously beautiful Phryne, the model and muse of the sculptor Praxiteles.

The eldest and the most famous, Yodo-dono became a concubine to Hideyoshi, who had killed not only both her birth parents but also her stepfather.

It is often thought that Kitsuno was Nobunaga's most beloved concubine and that she probably had a higher position than Nōhime.

She was a concubine and second wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was then the most powerful man in Japan.

* Kösem Sultan-( 1581 – 1651 ) also known as Mehpeyker Sultan was the most powerful woman in Ottoman history, consort and favourite concubine of Ottoman Sultan Ahmed I ( r. 1603-1617 ), she became Valide Sultan from 1623 – 1651, when her sons Murad IV and Ibrahim I and her grandson Mehmed IV ( 1648 – 1687 ) reigned as Ottoman sultans ; she was the daughter of a priest from the island of Tinos-her maiden name was Anastasia

With significant alterations to the character, a version of this Aethra appears as " Aithra "), a sorceress and concubine of Poseidon, in Richard Strauss's famous opera Die ägyptische Helena ( The Egyptian Helen ).

Moving to Baghdad, he continued his business there, but became famous for his verses, especially for those addressed to ʻUtba, a concubine of the Abbasid Caliph al-Mahdi.

The Emperor Xuanzong built a magnificent imperial garden, the Garden of the Majestic Clear Lake, near Xian, and lived there with his famous concubine, Yang Guifei, who ruled over the palace and the Emperor.

He was the nephew of Consort Ban, a famous poet and concubine to Emperor Cheng.

He told her that he acquired this disease after separating from his first wife and living with his concubine Yao Yecheng, as well as with many other women he consorted with.

The principal difference in the Bible between a wife and a concubine is that wives had dowries, while concubines did not.

The concubine may have commanded the same respect and inviolability as the wife.

The Hebrew word used in the Levitical rules on sexual relations, which is commonly translated as " wife ", is distinct from the Hebrew word that means " concubine ".

According to the Babylonian Talmud, the difference between a concubine and a full wife was that the latter received a marriage contract ( Hebrew: ketubah ) and her marriage ( nissu ' in ) was preceded by a formal betrothal ( erusin ), neither being the case for a concubine.

As a result, Chapter 66 Sura-e-Tahreem of the Quran instructed Muhammad to divorce his wife for maliciously alleging a concubine Maria Qibtia.

At the directive of God / Allah, Prophet Abraham took Hagar as a concubine with the permission of his wife Sarah, who was infertile ( according to Islamic sources ).

In subsequent dynasties, when the distinction between wife and concubine became more accentuated, the crown prince would have chosen an empress-designate before his reign.

Breaking with two centuries of Ottoman tradition, a former concubine had thus become the legal wife of the Sultan, much to the astonishment of observers in the palace and the city.

* Constantius Chlorus divorces his wife ( or concubine ) Helena, mother of Constantine I, and marries emperor Maximian's stepdaughter, Theodora.

If he did not, on his death the brothers were obligated to do so, giving her a full child's share if a wife, a concubine or a vestal, but one-third of a child's share if she were a hierodule or a Marduk priestess.

She was later rumoured to have been Edward the Elder's concubine, but Barbara Yorke and Sarah Foot argue that the rumours were a product of the dispute over the succession in 924, and that there is no reason to doubt that she was Edward's legitimate wife.

She was the only child of Li Dewen ( 李德文 ), a carpenter, and his subsidiary wife, or concubine.

To strengthen the ties between the emperor and his powerful military servant, in 289 Constantius divorced his wife ( or concubine ) Helena, and married the emperor Maximian ’ s daughter, Theodora.

Orestes was absent from Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra as his concubine, and thus not present for Agamemnon's murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, in retribution for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia to obtain favorable winds during the Greek voyage to Troy.

Roger married his first wife, Elvira, daughter of Alfonso VI of Castile and his fourth queen, Isabella, who may be identical to his former concubine, the converted Moor, Zaida, baptised Isabella.

While his wife Deianira did not like that Iole had become Heracles's concubine, she forebore to object and tolerated it temporarily.

Another chief wife was a Greek woman of Phocaea named Aspasia ( not the same as the concubine of Pericles ).