Bizarre Family Relationships

Started by Woodman Mark Lowes Dickinson, OBE on Sunday, December 29, 2013
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12/29/2013 at 3:08 AM

If anyone is interested in unusual family relationships, this woman

Katherine Courtenay

is the only one I have ever seen who married her first husband's grandfather, which shows the lengths Tudor families would go to in order to keep property in the family. (At first I thought there must have been some mistake, but it's there in the pedigrees of all three families. It may even have been a genuinely voluntary arrangement rather than one where she came under heavy pressure: her second husband managed to outlive her by about ten years).

Mark

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