age differences between couples

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age differences between couples

Legg inn av Gjest » 20 okt 2005 20:23:21

We are have difficulty with the age differences between medieval men
and their spouses, but here's a story I stumbled on that really drove
the point home for me.

Around 1360 Peter Blunt of Dorset was about to have his infant daughter
baptized, and asked 26 year old William Frome to be her godfather.
Frome refused adamantly (Latin "totaliter"), because he might want to
marry the girl himself and did not want to foreclose his options. The
incident was repeated by a witness at her proof of age hearing, Cal.
IPMs 11 p.123. I know 39 to 13 is not bad, we've seen worse, but the
very thought sounds really bad when the girl is only an infant.

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Re: age differences between couples

Legg inn av Gjest » 21 okt 2005 00:18:01

In speaking of marrying "children", I myself have an ancestress who, when she
went to be married, was refused "for she had not yet reached the age of 12".
This was around 1620-30 time period in New France (Quebec, now part of Canada)

Her espoused was around 26 to 30 I believe.
Rather wryly amusing.

Will Johnson

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