I am a speed reader. I went through 4 pages of links. Sufficient enough. You made the assertion. If you’ve enough wherewithal to say a thing, kindly either do so with evidence to substantiate your claim, or retract. That’s the second opportunity for a graceful out on your earlier claim, by the way. You may say you were mistaken, if you wish. My aim is not to puff my chest up. Nor to put you down. Whether we agree all the time or not, we are, in some respects, birds of a feather. All I ask is that you back your claim. Will you do so?
Try the German language sites.
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