Handy posts on inheritance & weddings

Hello guys - these messages from GRRM/the wiki might be handy given upcoming events:

http://www.westeros.org/Citadel/SSM/Category/C91/P210/ - THE HORNWOOD INHERITANCE AND THE WHENTS

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Well, the short answer is that the laws of inheritance in the Seven Kingdoms are modelled on those in real medieval history... which is to say, they were vague, uncodified, subject to varying interpertations, and often contradictory... the medieval world was governed by men, not by laws. You could even make a case that the lords preferred the laws to be vague and contradictory, since that gave them more power. In a tangle like the Hornwood case, ultimately the lord would decide... and if some of the more powerful claimants did not like the decision, it might come down to force of arms.

The bottom line, I suppose, is that inheritance was decided as much by politics as by laws. In Westeros and in medieval Europe both."


http://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Customs#Marriage - section on marriages - Lords cannot force them

I do like that, even though there is so much marginalisation of women, that for marriage, consent is still required.

Lady Corrine Marsten wrote:I do like that, even though there is so much marginalisation of women, that for marriage, consent is still required.

Quite so, Westeros is grim enough. It might also be plot relevant!

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The Mystery Knight"
short story has lots more wedding flavour too.