[ SECRET POST #5369 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5369 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

DA

Weren't the Habsburgs more into uncle/niece marriages?

I've always been puzzled as to how the Catholic Church went from "annulment because you're fifth cousins" to "of course you can marry your brother's daughter!"

[(Anonymous)]

It didn't change! You could pay money to the church and get a dispensation, so if you were marrying your fifth cousin that wasn't much money, but uncle and niece, lots of money (and politics). This is where Henry VIII got into trouble - first he got a dispensation to marry his brother's wife (Catherine of Aragon) on the grounds that they hadn't consummated the marriage (which is plausible but not proven). But then he tried to get an annulment because she definitely had consummated the marriage (again possible but not proven) and the political winds now favoured some of her relatives so the Church said no on their behalf.

[tree_and_leaf]

Although I don't think the fact that he was blatantly trying to have it both ways helped, not did the fact that he wanted it done really quickly.