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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

First King to have a marriage annulled?

Perhaps the first English monarch to have a marriage annulled was Ethelbald, whose marriage to his widowed stepmother Judith was annulled in 860, two years after Ethelbald had married her on the death of his father Ethelwulf and his accession to the full rights of king. It is not clear, however, that Ethelbald could rightly be called 'King of England'.

posted by Daniel Hill at 9:44 am

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