A Marriage between England and Scotland query

I don't think the law, if it existed, was particularly strongly enforced prior to the 20th c.. What is the country/timeframe/context, anyway - you could look at actual period documents to find out.

Lste 15th and early 16th century
 
Lste 15th and early 16th century

Well, I'm not the expert you're looking for, but someone on this site could be.

As a result of a quick couple of searches, I can't find any particular law, but the youngest Scottish male king was married at 17. There are some royal child marriages in England, however, with both parties basically little children. There are occasional newspaper notices of men marrying as young as 13 or 12 in England in the 17th and 18th cc.

I think insofar as your story goes, if you think the nobles will be reticient for the king to marry so young, just ask the Pope for a dispensation, which I think should not be a big problem.
 
Well, I'm not the expert you're looking for, but someone on this site could be.

As a result of a quick couple of searches, I can't find any particular law, but the youngest Scottish male king was married at 17. There are some royal child marriages in England, however, with both parties basically little children. There are occasional newspaper notices of men marrying as young as 13 or 12 in England in the 17th and 18th cc.

I think insofar as your story goes, if you think the nobles will be reticient for the king to marry so young, just ask the Pope for a dispensation, which I think should not be a big problem.


Alrighty, thanks :)

Another query related to this. Say flodden happens, and James wins, whilst that’s happening Henry VIII dies. What happens? James has Catherine of Aragon prisoner and he’s marching south. Who gets declared the king or queen of England?
 
My understanding with very young royal marriages is that they weren't actually cohabiting at the age? If it was two very young children the marriage would be contracted in advance, then the children would remain at their residences until it was a reasonably accepted age to marry/cohabit, and only then would they actually reside together. Accepted marriage age of course also varied with income, social class, etc.
 
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