More danico
More danico ( Latin for according to Danish custom ) or danesche manere (Norman) is the name for the polygyne practice of the Vikings , which they retained even after they settled in Normandy after the Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte (911) .
Her official turn to Christianity did not prevent her from having several women at the same time , as before in Scandinavia . In contrast to the Christians and the Church, who viewed a frilla as a concubine and their children as bastards , the Normans saw the descendants from a marriage more danico as legitimate: two of their dukes, Richard II. And Wilhelm I , the later conqueror England, come from such a relationship.
This tradition seems to have ended by Wilhelm II (1056–1100).
literature
- Stefan Christian Saar: marriage, divorce, remarriage. On the history of marriage and divorce law in the early Middle Ages (6th – 10th centuries) ; Series: IUS VIVENS / Department B: Rechtsgeschichtliche Abhandlungen, Vol. 6, 2002; ISBN 3-8258-3081-0
- Robert Besnier: Le mariage en Normandie des origines au XIIIe siècle ; in: Normannia, Revue trimestrielle, bibliographique et critique d'histoire de Normandie 7 (1934), Myriad: Bibl. de l'Union de Caen
Individual evidence
- ^ Saar: marriage, divorce, remarriage ; S. 234