http://www.archive.org/stream/secrethistoryau02michgoog/secrethistoryau02michgoog_djvu.txt
search for “15th February, 1650”
This particular source list the authorization of two, not ten, wives, but there are other sources I’ve not made it all the way through yet.
Quote:
Even more, the Franconian Diet, with the ap-
proval of the Archbishops of Bamberg and Wurtzburg,
formed, on the 15th February, 1650, at Nuremberg, a le-
gislative decision which allowed priests to marry, and
authorised polygamy. I have the text of this singular
document before me, and will translate it, as a proof of
such importance as this must be communicated to the
reader in its entirety:
^* Art. 1. During an interval of ten years, reckoning
from this day, no man will be admitted into a monastery
who has not reached his sixtieth year.
^^ Art. 2. All priests and curates not belonging to a re-
ligious house or chapter, are bound to marry without
delay.
“Art. 3. Any man is allowed to marry two wives; but
There are variations on this that I've encountered in a number of history books that have bothered to deal with post-Westphalia Germany.
And, talking to older Germans about it (who had first-class private school educations) it's something either taught in school or discussed in school ~ even in Saxony.
I'm certainly not an expert on the matter ~ but we do have folks here who imagine that their inability to do research means something far more than that they don't know how to do research.
OK, do you ANY reliable source that backs the polemic you cite?