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Early Middle Ages

Posted by Gimwinkle on Thursday, June 20 2019 at 04:45:40AM
Achim Thomas Hack: Alter, Krankheit, Tod und Herrschaft im frühen Mittelalter, (= Monographien zur Geschichte des Mittelalters 56), Stuttgart 2009, p. 51.

Girls could be married at any time after puberty, and in Roman law, which the Church upheld, the age of 12 was well established as being adequate. Taken from a Wikipedia article on Hildegard (c. 754 – 783), the second wife of Charlemagne.
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