Connubium
Konnubium (from Latin conubium ) is the name for the connection between originally demarcated social groups through marriage , for example between nobles and socially ascended bourgeois . The connubium is an important indicator of rapprochement and mutual recognition of both groups. In relation to individual families , it is a measure of the social position of a family.
The marriage policy of the Fuggers with an exclusively old-nobility connubium is seen as a central basis for their social advancement .
Conversely, the so-called “closed” connubium, i.e. marrying only in one's own social group, is used to differentiate oneself from other groups: “Those who, through the priority of rights and duties over the people, first the peasants, and from the High Middle Ages also the townspeople, Eminent gentlemen whose class was hereditary and therefore always aimed at closing themselves off from the people by means of closed connubium. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cord Ulrichs: From the Lehnhof to the Imperial Knighthood. Structures of the Franconian nobility at the transition from the late Middle Ages to the early modern period . Steiner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-515-07109-1 , pp. 133-134: “Some remarks about the connubium”.
- ↑ Martha Schad: The women of the house Fugger from the lily (15th - 17th century). Augsburg - Ortenburg - Trento . Mohr, Tübingen 1989, ISBN 3-16-545478-7 , pp. 22–24: “Konnubium with the higher South German and Austrian nobility”.
- ↑ Werner Conze , Christian Meier : Art. Adel, aristocracy . In: Otto Brunner , Werner Conze, Reinhart Koselleck (eds.): Basic historical concepts. Historical Lexicon on Political-Social Language in Germany , Vol. 1, Stuttgart 1972, pp. 1–48, here p. 1.