PETER F. SUGAR is Professor Emeritus of History and International Studies at the University of Washington.
PETER HANAK is Senior Research Advisor at the Instit6ute of History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. TIBOR FRANK is Associate Professor History at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest.
These men wrote a book on Hungarian History and on Page 108 of it, it says that after 1620 a new BARON was rare. That there were 70-80 families that made up the aristocracy as it had been easily for hundreds of years. These families were anti-Hapsburgs.
The book also says that after the 1680's the courts tried to raise up more families.
I'm looking for information on ARRANGED MARRIAGES and the role that class would play back in those days. I have an ancestor who received SPECIAL DISPENSATION from the Catholic Church to marry.
Do any of you readers know where I would find the REASON WHY? I suspect there was a class difference, but what reasons would the CHURCH find it necessary to give permission?
