Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 23968
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Salonen , Kirsi
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  • Title: Diemunda and Heinrich- Married or Not? About a Marriage Litigation in the Consistorial Court of Freising in the Late Middle Ages [Diemunda sued Heinrich de Empach to enforce what she claimed was a promise of marriage. She procured a dispensation from the Penitentiary because of consanguinity in the third or fourth degree. The ecclesiastical court in Freising had denied her petition for lack of adequate evidence of both consent and consanguinity. Despite the dispensation from the Penitentiary, Heinrich tried to avoid paying for support of their short-lived illegitimate child and the fine for taking Diemunda's virginity. [Title note supplied by Feminae.]
  • Source: ... et usque ad ultimum terrae: The Apostolic Penitentiary in Local Contexts  Edited by Gerhard Jaritz, Torstein Jørgensen, and Kirsi SalonenCeu Medievalia.  Central European University Press, 2007.  Pages 43 - 59.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Canon Law Charters and Diplomatics de Empach, Diemunda, Wife of Heinrich de Empach Freising, Bayern, Germany Illegitimacy Marriage Papal Chancery Papal Penitentiary
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  • Geographic Area: Germany
  • Century: 15
  • Primary Evidence: Legal Document; Munich, Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv, HL Freising, 93;Rome, Archivio Segreto Vaticano, Penitenzieria Apostolica, Registra matrimonialium et diversorum.
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  • Year of Publication: 2007.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9637326837