Marriage on Trial

List of Illustrations

List of Illustrations Tables 1. Forms of Signatures for Marital Dispensations 15 2. Average Composition Payments in the Chancery and Penitentiary 49 3. Supplications in the Penitentiary from the German Bishoprics 334 A1. Fees for Marriage Dispensations, c.1450–1513 353 A2. Costs for Compositions under Pope Paul II (1464–1471) 354 Graphs 1. Number of Supplications about Marriage Issues per Year, 1455–1492 and 1500 11 2. Number of Marriage Supplications per Bishopric 12 3. Frequency of Marital Impediments from Sponsorship at Baptisms and Confirmations 73 4. Cases involving an Impediment of Kinship 78 5. Distribution of Marital Impediments 79 6. Distribution of Biological Kinship by Diocese 79 7. Legitimization of Children 89 8. Legitimization of Children by Diocese 89 9. Public and Clandestine Contraction of Marriage 93 10. Clandestine and Public Marriages by Diocese 93 11. Involvement of Diocesan Courts 114 12. References to Diocesan Courts 115 13. Penitentiary Supplications from the Bishopric of Constance 259 vii 14. Penitentiary Supplications from Chur 289 15. Dispensations for the Continuation of Marriages Despite an Impediment 349 Figures 1. A pope sits in judgment over a couple kneeling before him xxii 2. Littera ecclesiae issued by the German minor penitentiary, Johannes Calp, for a pilgrim from the Skara bishopric in Sweden 7 3. The seal of the major penitentiary with the inscription Sigillum officii sacre penitentiarie apostolice 8 4. original supplication for a dispensation from the fourth degree of consanguinity of a Swedish couple 25 5. The vicar general of Bishop Hermann of Constance grants Eberhard of Wurttemberg and Elisabeth of Brandenburg absolution and dispensation for their marriage contracted in the knowledge of their consanguinity in the third degree 52 6. Section of a page from Pope Calixtus III’s register of supplications 119 7. Pope Paul II frees Guta von Wertheim from her profession in the monastery of Königsfeld, which she had made under force 196 8. Littera from the major penitentiary, Philippus, to the bishop of Chur granting absolution and dispensation for Guta von Wertheim 197 9. Mandate to Bishop Hermann von Konstance to carry out Paul II’s bull for Guta von Wertheim 199 10. Expert opinion of Dr. Baldasar Mansfelt from Munich in a case of impotence 224 11. Dispensation of the papal legate, Cardinal Besarion, for Ulrich von Württemberg and Margarete von Savoyen for a marriage unknowingly contracted in the third degree of relations 238 12. Beginning of the case of Schmid, Tanner 270 13. Case of Hoffstetter, Remishueberin 271 14. Heinrich Hofstetter’s statement 273 15. Record of the testimony of Ellina Tannerin 274 16. Record of Johannes Inhelder’s statement 276 17. Statement of Johannes Inhelder in the vernacular 276 viii Illustrations ...