Presidential Address
Feudal Society and the Family in Early Medieval England: IV. The Heiress and the Alien
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11004909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J C Holt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Pages | 1 |
| Publication date | 1985-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0080440100017680 |
| OpenAlex | W4256444447 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 2 |
The topic is doubly important. First, the heiress was one of the fluid elements in the social structure. By marriage, families forged links with each other, landless knights and ambitious officials made their way into the noble hierarchy, and established lineages renewed their military reputation or improved their access to government circles. If the bride was an heiress all this was underwritten by a territorial endowment far larger than the usual marriage-portion. She also brought to her husband title to office, all the legal and quasi-legal claims which came to be concentrated in her from her lineage, and sometimes even the family name of her forbears to be assumed, if not by him, then by the offspring of their marriage. So the heiress was special; she magnifies for us all the problems and consequences of marriage
Alien · Citizenship · Endowment · Feudalism · Genealogy · Government (linguistics · Hierarchy · Political science · Politics · Presidential system · Reputation · Sociology · History · Law · Medieval Literature and History
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1987 - 2019 (33) |
| Highly cited | No |