Beatrice of Bourbon, the second wife and second cousin of John the Blind, King of Bohemia and Count of Luxembourg was the first to have a C-section birth. The first birth by caesarean section where both the mother and child survived may have taken place in 1337 in Prague, researchers claim. Beatrice of Bourbon, the second wife and second cousin of John the Blind, King of Bohemia and Count of Luxembourg, gave birth to her only child, Duke Wenceslaus I on February 25 in 1337. According to archival documents found by the researchers, Beatrice, a teenage queen consort, had a difficult labour. "Beatrice most likely passed out during delivery, and was believed dead," said Antonin Parizek of Charles University in Czech Republic.

Source: dna November 28, 2016 08:45 UTC