When I talk to people now, I will just say that we need to save all the women and children. Saving all the women and children means we also save all the men, since Adam can be presumed to not be in jeopardy.
I forgot to add an extra section to this video, as this was the first time I was recording near my grandfather clock. And it was first thing in the morning, so I was probably a bit slower.
The reason I know all about the Pope implementing the impediment of affinity in the 1050s is because of my ancestor, Saint Margaret of Scotland. She knew of the papal position and worked to get the Scottish Witangemot to change marriage laws. I am pretty sure her aim was not mere righteousness – it appears there was a plot to kill her husband, King Malcom MacDuncan III. Before I had “proof,” I theorized that her stepson was in love with her. Had King Malcolm been killed, the man who stepped forward to care for Margaret would be granted the kingdom. While I doubt the stepson necessarily wanted his father killed, that timeframe is rife with people killing rulers, even when they were blood relatives.
Then I found a copy of the biography Saint Margaret’s confessor wrote of her life. In that, he speaks of the argument/discussion Margaret had with the Witangemot and wrote that the only change they were willing to grant was that a stepson could not become the levirate husband to his father’s widow. Exactly the practical reason I presumed Margaret would have had for her pleas to change marriage laws.
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