Marriage contract no. 163: Bayern - Savoyen-Piemont

  • Date of contract conclusion: 4. Dezember 1650
  • Place of contract conclusion: Turin

Groom

  • Name: Ferdinand Maria von Bayern
  • GND: 119105691
  • Year of Birth: 1636
  • Year of Death: 1679
  • Dynasty: Wittelsbach (Bayern)
  • Confession: katholisch

Bride

  • Name: Henriette Adelaide von Savoyen
  • GND: 118549286
  • Year of Birth: 1636
  • Year of Death: 1676
  • Dynasty: Savoyen
  • Confession: katholisch

Actors of the Groom

  • Name: Maximilian I. von Bayern
  • GND: 118579355
  • Dynasty: Wittelsbach (Bayern)
  • Relationship: Vater
  • Name: Maria Anna von Österreich
  • GND: 118893289
  • Dynasty: Habsburg (Österreich)
  • Relationship: Mutter

Actors of the Bride

  • Name: Christine von Savoyen, als Vormund für Karl Emanuel II. von Savoyen
  • GND: 119164248
  • Dynasty: Bourbon
  • Relationship: Mutter, als Vormund für den Bruder

Contract content

Preamble: Request for papal dispensation due to the degree of kinship between the spouses mentioned

Article 1: Marriage announced

Article 2: Dowry set at 200,000 crowns or Italian gold scudi

Article 3: Creation of an inventory of Adelaide’s jewellery and movable property regulated

Article 4: Payment of the dowry regulated, life estate established, morning gift established, Adelaide’s right of disposal of the morning gift in the event of her widowhood regulated

Article 5: The county of ‘Meringen’ and the towns of Schongau, Landsberg, Friedberg and Aichach are specified as collateral for Adelaide’s disposal of the dowry and morning gift

Article 6: Payment of the dowry as a widow’s pension is regulated, as is the transfer of jewels, movable property and morning gift to Adelaide, as well as her widow’s residence in Landshut and widow’s pension

Article 7: In the event of Adelaide’s second marriage after the death of Ferdinand Maria: Reversion of the widow’s residence and compensation payments to Adelaide are regulated

Article 8: In the event of Adelaide’s death: inheritance rights of the children to marriageable property and jewels regulated, right of use reserved for Ferdinand Maria.

Article 9: In the event of Adelaide’s death without children: delivery of the jewels to her heirs guaranteed, lifelong use of the dowry reserved for Ferdinand Maria.

Article 10: Adelaide’s renunciation of inheritance with regard to her paternal and maternal inheritance declared: except in the event of the extinction of the Dukes of Savoy and excluding her inheritance claim to Montferrat

Article 11: in all cases of dispute and doubt regarding the provisions of the contract: application of ius commune with waiver of civil law, canon law, court law or princely rescripts agreed

Regulations on inheritance law

Article 8: In the event of Adelaide’s death: inheritance rights of the children to matrimonial property and jewels regulated […]

Article 10: Adelaide’s renunciation of inheritance with regard to her paternal and maternal inheritance declared: except in the event of the extinction of the Dukes of Savoy and excluding her inheritance claim to Montferrat

External authorities involved

Preamble: Request for papal dispensation due to the degree of kinship between the spouses mentioned

Commentary

Ü – following the failure of Louis XIV’s marriage plans with Adelaide initiated by Mazarin – after preliminary agreement on 14 May 1650 (Albrecht 1998)

The agreement itself is not divided into articles.

Literature

Albrecht 1998, p. 1101 f. - Heigel 1890 - Nicklas 2010, p. 251-254 - Oresko/Parrott 1998, p. 152

References

  • Print reference: CTS 2, S. 249-258
  • Contract language print: Latin