About the ten children: let's assume half were boys and half girls. That leaves three boys fighting it out to inherit. The girls get married off. One son goes

About the ten children: let's assume half were boys and half girls. That leaves three boys fighting it out to inherit. The girls get married off. One son goes into the army. One goes into the clergy. I'm not sure about the third, if there even were five boys. Two or three is probably more common.