- Frank-marriage,
maritagium or
liberum maritagium was a form of
conditional marriage-gift of land
under English law,
often from
father to daughter. It was...
- and
power by the
Woodville family. One
chronicler described it as a "
maritagium diaboli****" (the
diabolical marriage). The same year,
Woodville was made...
- Earl of Chester,
Vicomte of Avranches. He was born
about 1207. Ellen's
maritagium included the
manors of Bidford,
Warwickshire and Suckley, Worcestershire...
-
Naseby in Northamptonshire,
which had
formed the
greatest part of her
maritagium [marriage portion], to her husband's
young niece Isabella and her husband...
-
Mahel disinherited by
claiming that
Bernard was not Mahel's father. The
maritagium (marriage charter)
arranged by King
Henry I in 1121 for the
marriage between...
- wife or
widow of Hugh Bigod, 1st Earl of Norfolk, upon
lands of her
maritagium and was
confirmed to her and her
second husband Roger de
Glanville by...
-
matrimony as agreed. Hugh X was also
given possession of his betrothed's
maritagium (marriage portion) of Saintes, the
Saintonge and the Isle of Oleron. However...
- 1221
disputing with Hugh X of Lusignan,
Count of La Marche, over the
maritagium (dowry) of King John's widow,
Isabella of Angoulême, who had
married Hugh...
- seem that
before taking his
inheritance his only
income had been the
maritagium bestowed by King Henry.
Unlike his predecessors,
Robert was impetuous...
- year, Duke
Robert gave him an
illegitimate daughter in marriage,
whose maritagium included the
county of
Arques along with the
lordship of Bures-en-Bray...
