Lumley-Conyers marriage

How Edward IV’s bigamy should have been resolved

Jul 17, 2023

Alternative History, anniversaries, battles, genealogy, law, religion

Affinity, banns, bigamy, canon law, Castillon, Catherine de Roet, Catholicism, Church of England, consanguinity, Council of Trent, dispensations, Elizabeth Wydeville, family law, Henry VIII, illegitimacy, infertility, John Earl of Shrewsbury, John of Gaunt, lack of consent, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lumley-Conyers marriage, Moynihan barony, non-consummation, Papal Legate, pre-contract, R.H. Helmholz, Ralph Butler Baron Sudeley, Reformation, Sixtus IV, Statute of Merton, widows, witchcraft

Canon law, as practiced in most of Europe to the late mediaeval period, is noticeably different to the laws of the United Kingdom today, although it is somewhat looser today in several ways. Consequently, secret marriages were banned eventually, only first cousins now require dispensations and relationships do not beget affinity, although previous manages still…
Might Edward IV have had a third “wife”….?

Jan 6, 2022

anniversaries, genealogy, law, religion, sources

Anne Conyers, bigamy, Bishops of Durham, dispensations, documents, Edward IV, Elizabeth Wydeville, Epiphany Rising, Hicks, Lady Eleanor Talbot, Lumley-Conyers marriage, Lumleys, Richard Lord Lumley, Sir Ralph Lumley, wikitree

I’m not sure I kept track of everyone in this intriguing link but it makes interesting reading. Discussing it here would be complicated, the link has to be read in full. If the possibility is actually fact, it makes me wonder if Edward IV married someone else – as well as Eleanor Talbot and Elizabeth…
On consanguinity

Aug 5, 2016

law, religion

consanguinity, dispensations, genealogy, Lumley-Conyers marriage, marriages, mediaeval canon law, Ricardian, software

When comparing the descent of two people who wished to marry each other, it was necessary to investigate their ancestry as far back as their great-great-grandparents. If an ancestor was common to both, they would require a dispensation before marrying. Now if only every mediaeval Pope had a laptop and access to this simple Consanguinity…

Lumley-Conyers marriage

How Edward IV’s bigamy should have been resolved

Might Edward IV have had a third “wife”….?

On consanguinity