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A question about marriage...

Permission to Marry

Nine out of ten people in William the Conqueror’s England had to get their lord’s permission to get married.

TRUE

According to the Domesday Book, about 12 percent of the population were ‘freemen’ or ‘sokemen’ – everyone else was either a ‘villan’, ‘bordar’, ‘cottar,’ or ‘slave’ and had to ask the lord’s permission to marry.

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