Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: Kaslin

So the English were marring off there daughters at age 10 and delivering them at age 11.


19 posted on 04/24/2016 8:06:24 AM PDT by Revel
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Revel

I suppose it’s better than marrying at 6 and delivering at 9.


20 posted on 04/24/2016 8:10:48 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

To: Revel
So the English were marring off there daughters at age 10 and delivering them at age 11.

Yes. She would have to learn the customs of her new land so she would have had tutors. They were usually considered adults by 15 or 16. Her only child was born when she was 19. She died at age 29.

24 posted on 04/24/2016 8:17:59 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

To: Revel

9 was common for marriage contracts in those days. But, the man was prohibited from touching her until she was 14. That is how the nobility ensured the “purity” of their brides. She would usually move into the man’s castle by 12, but her chaperones kept her away from the bridegroom. No prohibition agains the bridegroom sleeping with everybody else to become experienced before he approached his bride.

And when they finally got together it was a public event with lots of witnesses. It must have been humiliating for the girl.


48 posted on 04/24/2016 10:18:11 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic (.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson