A Case of Consanguinity in 1497 ~ William Eure & Constance P

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A Case of Consanguinity in 1497 ~ William Eure & Constance P

Legg inn av Gjest » 12 aug 2005 02:03:02

On p. 360 of Testamenta Eboracensia v. 3 is the abstract:

1497, July 3. Dispensation from Richard Nykke, vicar-general of Richard
bishop of Durham, for Sir William Eure, knt. and Constance his wife, who have
married, although twice related in 3rd degree. Issued by Julian the Cardinal,
Sept. 15th, 5th Alexr. VI. Reg. Fox, at Durham, 13, a, b.


From W. Percy Hedley's Northumberland Families v. 1 on p. 188 is the
statement:

On 4 January 1492 there was an indenture of settlement made between sir
Ralph Wedryngton and sir William Evers and Constance his wife, widow of sir Henry
Percy of Bamburgh. (NDD, p. 241, no. 80). It may not have been realised at
the time that Evers and his second wife were distantly related, for on 3
July 1497 a dispensation was given 'to them who have married although twice
related in the third degree'. (SS. 45, p. 360). As the parentage of sir Henry
Percy's widow Constance is unknown, we cannot say how she was related to sir
William Evers.


On p. 133 of A History of Private Life II: Revelations of the Medieval
World (Georges Duby, Editor) (1988) is the following quote: "the (surviving)
party to the espousal is not free to (re)marry a brother, sister, or other
relative of the other party....Relations by affinity (that is, marriage) were
taboo to the fourth canonical degree, and the more frequently invoked relations
of consanguinity were taboo to the seventh degree."


My question then is could one or both of the third degrees of relatedness be
due to a family relationship between Constance's two husbands? If I
understand what the third degree of relationship means then I believe I can explain
at least one of them to be due to the fact that both of her husbands were
great-grandsons of Joan Beaufort (d. 1440). I don't want to waste my time
seeking kinship between William and Constance when it might actually be kinship
between William and Henry.

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