Marriage contract no. 77: Sachsen(-Weimar) - Kurpfalz

Contract content

[Pre] – with the consent of the bride and groom, to the praise of God, for the benefit of both countries, to confirm and extend existing friendship and kinship: marriage agreement announced (63 li – re)

[1] – consent given for bride (63 re)

[2] – Bedding determined, dowry determined, trousseau regulated (63 re)

[3] – Morning gift determined: payment and use regulated (63 re)

[4] – Widow’s property, donation propter nuptias and widow’s income determined (63 re)

[5] – Widow’s property regulated: improvements guaranteed (63 re – 64 li)

[6] – Widow’s property and residence arranged: rights of use arranged, rights of dominion excluded, legal status of subjects arranged (64 li)

[7] – Widow’s property arranged: trousseau, condition and use arranged (64 li)

[8] – Renunciation of inheritance by the bride regulated: paternal, maternal and fraternal inheritance (64 li)

[9] – After the death of the bride without surviving children: lifelong use of the dowry by the groom regulated, reversion of half of the bride’s jewellery regulated (64 li)

[10] – after the death of the groom without surviving children: lifelong widow’s maintenance, protection of widow’s property regulated, widow’s property used as collateral for widow’s maintenance and reversion of the dowry (64 li – right)

[11] – in the event of the bride’s second marriage: redemption of widow’s property in return for payment of dowry and donation propter nuptias regulated, inheritance of donation propter nuptias to children or reversion regulated, inheritance of dowry to children from first and second marriages regulated (64 re)

[12] – After the death of the bride without surviving children: reversion of dowry and donation propter nuptias regulated (64 re – 65 li)

[Esch] – Confirmation given by the groom’s brothers: as marriage brokers (65 li)

Regulations on inheritance law

Renunciation of inheritance by the bride regulated: paternal, maternal and fraternal inheritance – 8

In the event of the bride’s second marriage: inheritance of donation propter nuptias by children or reversion regulated, inheritance of dowry by children from first and second marriages regulated – 11

Ratifications, confirmations, approvals

Confirmation granted by the groom’s brothers – Esch

Commentary

NB Reference to the marriage of Johann Friedrich II the Middle of Saxony – Elisabeth of the Palatinate 1558 – Pre

Literature

Knöfel 2009, p. 290 f.

References

• Print reference: Dumont 1726-1739, vol. V:1, p. 63-65
• Contract language print: German
• Digital copy print: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k1262878n/f111.item

Recommended citation

Dynastische Eheverträge der frühen Neuzeit. Contract No. 77. Philipps University of Marburg. Available online at https://dynastische-ehevertraege.online.uni-marburg.de/en/vertraege/77.html.

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