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Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215−1517 Fromtheestablishmentofacoherentdoctrineonsacramentalmarriage totheeveoftheReformation,latemedievalchurchcourtswereusedfor marriage cases in a variety of ways. Ranging widely across Western Europe, including the Upper and Lower Rhine regions, England, Italy,Catalonia,andCastile,thisstudyexploresthestarkdiscrepancies in practice between the North of Europe and the South. Wolfgang P.Müllerdrawsattentiontotheexistenceofpublicpenitentialproceed- ings in the North and their absence in the South, and explains the differenceindemand,aswellashighlightingvariationsinhowindivid- ualsobtainedwrittendocumentationoftheirmaritalstatus.Integrating legalandtheologicalperspectivesonmarriagewithlatemedievalsocial history, Müller addresses critical questions around the relationship between the Church and medieval marriage, and what this reveals aboutbothinstitutions. Wolfgang P. Müller is Professor of History at Fordham University, where he specializes in church and other norms of the European MiddleAges. His publicationsinclude Huguccio: TheLife, Works,and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist (1994) and The Criminalization of AbortionintheWest(2012). Marriage Litigation in the − Western Church, 1215 1517 Wolfgang P. Müller FordhamUniversity,NewYork UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108845427 DOI:10.1017/9781108955812 ©WolfgangP.Müller2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ISBN978-1-108-84542-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Marriage Litigation in the Western Church, 1215−1517 Fromtheestablishmentofacoherentdoctrineonsacramentalmarriage totheeveoftheReformation,latemedievalchurchcourtswereusedfor marriage cases in a variety of ways. Ranging widely across Western Europe, including the Upper and Lower Rhine regions, England, Italy,Catalonia,andCastile,thisstudyexploresthestarkdiscrepancies in practice between the North of Europe and the South. Wolfgang P.Müllerdrawsattentiontotheexistenceofpublicpenitentialproceed- ings in the North and their absence in the South, and explains the differenceindemand,aswellashighlightingvariationsinhowindivid- ualsobtainedwrittendocumentationoftheirmaritalstatus.Integrating legalandtheologicalperspectivesonmarriagewithlatemedievalsocial history, Müller addresses critical questions around the relationship between the Church and medieval marriage, and what this reveals aboutbothinstitutions. Wolfgang P. Müller is Professor of History at Fordham University, where he specializes in church and other norms of the European MiddleAges. His publicationsinclude Huguccio: TheLife, Works,and Thought of a Twelfth-Century Jurist (1994) and The Criminalization of AbortionintheWest(2012). Marriage Litigation in the − Western Church, 1215 1517 Wolfgang P. Müller FordhamUniversity,NewYork UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom OneLibertyPlaza,20thFloor,NewYork,NY10006,USA 477WilliamstownRoad,PortMelbourne,VIC3207,Australia 314–321,3rdFloor,Plot3,SplendorForum,JasolaDistrictCentre, NewDelhi–110025,India 103PenangRoad,#05–06/07,VisioncrestCommercial,Singapore238467 CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learning,andresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781108845427 DOI:10.1017/9781108955812 ©WolfgangP.Müller2021 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2021 AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. ISBN978-1-108-84542-7Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents ListofIllustrations pagevi Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 PartI TheNorth 1. MatrimonialCaseloadsinXantenandBasel 23 2. Franco-GermanicAdjudication 55 3. England 84 PartII TheSouth 4. Italy:CanonicalMarriageontheSidelines 117 5. Top-DownPastoralActioninCatalonia 150 6. TheDomesticPartnershipsofIberia 183 Conclusion 215 Appendix –SentencinginSelectDiocesanRegisters 218 Bibliography 246 Index 264 v Illustrations Map 0.1. NorthandSouth page5 Tables 0.1. NorthernandSouthernsentencing 4 0.2. NorthernandSouthernsentencing 12 2.1. ContestedenforcementclaimsinFranco-Germanicchurch courts 77 Figures 0.1. Penance–privateandpublic 8 0.2. NotarialweddingceremonyoftheSouth 19 0.3. PriestlyweddingceremonyoftheNorth 19 vi