Auggie wrote on Mar 1
st, 2018 at 3:56pm:
@Brian Ross.
First of all, I do condemn the virulent beliefs of bigots on this forum. In fact, earlier today I officially declared Valkie to be racist and bigoted in the thread Spot the Aboriginal.
Second, can you provide evidence where a European medieval king, count or other has married a nine-year old???
Charlemagne’s wife was 17 when they married.
Edit: Justinian’s wife Theodora was 27 when she married Justinian in the 500s, 100 years earlier than Muhammad.
Constantine’s wife Fausta was 18 when she married in the 300s
Shall I go on?
The so called prophet of god is instructed by God to marry and consummate the marriage with a nine year old girl.
Very spiritual, innit?
British Monarchs: Quote:The youngest monarch to marry was David II, who married Joan, daughter of Edward II when he was 4 years, 134 days old in 1328.
The youngest female monarch at the time of her marriage was Mary II, who was 15 years, 188 days old when she married William III in 1677.
The youngest queen consort was Isabella of Valois, who married Richard II when she was 6 years, 358 days old in 1396.
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list of child brides Quote:Margaret Beaufort, (age approximately 7) was married to John de la Pole (age 7) in 1450 by the arrangement John's father.[5] The marriage was annulled in 1453.[6]
Joan of France, Duchess of Berry, betrothed in a wedding contract at age 8 days old, she was officially married at age 12 in 1476.[7]
Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk (age 6) was married to Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York (age 4) in 1477. She died at age 10 and he, as one of the Princes in the Tower is believed to have been murdered at age 10.[8]
Rukhmabai was married in India to her husband when she was 11 and he was 19.[9] After a lengthy court battle, the marriage was dissolved by an order from Queen Victoria and the publicity helped influence the passage of the Age of Consent Act, 1891, which increased age of consent for girls in India, married or unmarried, from 10 to 12.[10]
Janakiammal Iyengar was married at the age of 10 years to the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan.[11]
Nujood Ali, an arranged marriage by her father to a 30-year-old man at age 10[12] in 2008.[13] Coverage of her self-presented application for divorce later that year led to the legal age of marriage in Yemen to be raised to 18.[14]
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Quote:Henry The Young King, also called Henry Fitzhenry, (born February 28, 1155, London—died June 11, 1183, Martel, Quercy, France), second son of King Henry II of England by Eleanor of Aquitaine; he was regarded, after the death of his elder brother, William, in 1156, as his father’s successor in England, Normandy, and Anjou.
In 1158 Henry, only three years of age, was betrothed to Margaret, daughter of Louis VII of France and his second wife, on condition that Margaret’s dowry would be the Vexin, the border region between Normandy (then held by England) and France. Henry II took advantage of Pope Alexander III’s political difficulties to secure the Pope’s permission for the children to be married in 1160.
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He was five years old.
Guess you didn't look all that hard, hey, Augie?