‘Genealogy and the medieval historian’ by Michael Maclagan
from the paper presented at the 1978 English Genealogy Congress held at St
Catherine College, Cambridge.
If you have any interest in pedigree collapse and that your
ancestors may have been related by multiple descent lines, then you will find
Michael Maclagan’s paper of interest. He stresses “the wide spread of family
connections through the Middle Ages”.
He gives examples of marriages forbidden by canon law that
took place either by a clandestine marriage or by papal dispensation. The
marriage between relatives has continued since medieval ages as Michael admits
to be a child of second cousins.
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