Middle+Ages+Documents


 * A Marriage Contract ||  ||
 * [[image:Marrige_Conract.jpg]] ||  ||
 * This is a medieval marriage contract that was probably used in 14th century France. It shows people participating in a wedding ceremony and at the bottom is the contract. Marriages between powerful families had the advantage of making alliances and peace treaties. A landowner is less likely to attack a neighbor if a neighbor is a brother in-law or son in-law. People also married to bring prestige to a family, this means that if you married your daughter to a king, the family fortune would be expanded. Most noble sons and daughters were engaged at the age of seven in the high Middle Ages because people wanted their children to be powerful when they grew older. ||  ||