precontract

The child would be legitimate under their precontract of marriage.

Anne is said to have confessed a precontract with him in the hope of saving her life.

Opponents of Richard declared that the precontract was fiction.

This solved the matter of Catherine's supposed precontract and made her unequivocally guilty.

Buck, a defender of Richard, accepted the validity of the precontract.

His precontract with Girondins de Bordeaux has never been realised.

She also considers it odd that Eleanor's family did not support Richard's claims about the precontract.

However, she steadfastly denied any precontract, maintaining that Dereham had raped her.

Supporters of Richard, however, have argued that the precontract was real and that it legitimated his ascent to the throne.

Anne Crawford takes the view that any actual precontract with Eleanor Talbot is unlikely.

After the child's birth, Henrique had second thoughts about the social gap between himself and Jacinta, and got the precontract cancelled.

In June 1532, Mary sought an annulment, on the grounds that her husband had a precontract with Anne Boleyn.

Hoard offer to settle all Witgood's debts if Witgood will agree to release the 'Widow' from the precontract.

And saith further that there is no lawful let or impediment by reason of any precontract, consanguinity or affinity to hinder this intended marriage.

On 9 July the convocation pronounced the marriage invalid, on the grounds of a possible precontract and on a lack of inward consent for the bridegroom.

Even if there was no formal precontract it is possible that Eleanor Talbot's name was used because she was known to have been one of the king's lovers.

Despite this disapproval, Catherine and Dereham may have parted with intentions to marry upon his return from Ireland, agreeing to a precontract, as it was then known.

The Justice keeps his word: he returns Maria's dowry and admits that his precontract with another woman makes his marriage to Maria null and void.

John A. Wagner states that "most modern historians believe the precontract to be a fabrication devised to give Richard III's usurpation a veneer of legitimacy.

In 1532 Percy, now Earl of Northumberland stood in great danger, when his wife accused him of a precontract (i.e. betrothal with legal force) with Anne Boleyn.

Any valid precontract would most likely have been made in the early phase of Edward's reign, but the fact that Eleanor did not come forward when Edward married his queen militates against it.

(Like other plays of the era, The Spanish Curate exploits the legal and ethical ambiguity of the precontract, which in some interpretations was like a demi-marriage...but not quite.)

The scene confirms what the opening scene had hinted: that Jane and Fitzallen have entered into a nuptial precontract, and that Jane is about to deliver Fitzallen's baby.

It is also commonly argued by Ricardians that Stillington was imprisoned by Edward IV in 1478 because he incautiously spoke of the precontract to George, Duke of Clarence.

The betrothal cannot be documented beyond the account rehearsed in Titulus Regius, and Richard never attempted to have the precontract authenticated by a church court, the proper venue for such a case".