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A question about marriage...

Marriage for Love

Children of noble families were allowed to marry for love – everyone else had to marry as soon as possible.

False

Nobility seldom married for love. Their valuable property and connections made a marriage more like a diplomatic treaty, negotiated by their families. A woman might even be required to marry the man who had killed her father or husband.

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