Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (age 12), was betrothed in a wedding contract at age 8-days-old, she was officially married at the age of twelve in 1476, to her cousin Louis, Duke of Orléans (aged 14).
This is a list of child brides, females of historical significance who married under 18 years of age, which is the general marriageable age and age of majority in most countries in the 21st century.[citation needed]
AFRICA
Middle East [ edit ]
Ancient Egypt [ edit ]
Ankhesenamun (aged about 16) was married to her half-brother Tutankhamun (aged about 10) in about 1332 BC.
14th century [ edit ]
Olivera Despina (aged 17) was married to Bayezid I in 1389 or 1390.
18th century [ edit ]
19th century [ edit ]
Wives of Abdulmejid I
Wives of Murad V
Zübeyde Hanım (aged 15) was married to Ali Rıza Efendi (aged 32) in 1871.
20th century [ edit ]
21st century [ edit ]
Nujood Ali (age 10), had an arranged marriage by her father to a 30-year-old man[4] in 2008.[5] Coverage of her self-presented application for divorce later that year led to the legal age of marriage in Yemen to be raised to 18.[6]
East Asia [ edit ]
8th century [ edit ]
Asukabe-hime (aged 16) was married to the future Emperor Shōmu (aged about 16) in c. 717 .
9th century [ edit ]
Princess Seishi (aged 16/17) was married to the future Emperor Junna (aged about 42) in 827.
10th century [ edit ]
Fujiwara no Teishi (about 12/13) was married to the future Emperor Ichijō (aged 10) in October 990.
12th century [ edit ]
Princess Yoshiko (aged 17) was married to her nephew, the future Emperor Nijō (aged 15), in March 1159.
17th century [ edit ]
Tokugawa Masako (aged 12/13) was married to the future Emperor Go-Mizunoo (aged 23/24) in 1620.
19th century [ edit ]
Rukhmabai (age 11) was married in India to Dadaji Bhikaji (age 19),[7] a cousin of her stepfather, in about 1875. After a lengthy court battle, the marriage was dissolved by an order from Queen Victoria and the publicity helped influence the passage of the Age of Consent Act, 1891, which increased age of consent for girls in India, married or unmarried, from 10 to 12.[8]
Mrinalini Devi (aged between 9 and 11) married to Rabindranath Tagore (aged 22) in 1883.
20th century [ edit ]
Janakiammal Iyengar (age 10) was married to the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan[9] in 1909.
Ushabati Ghosh (age 11) was married to the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose (aged 20)[10] in 1914. Bose, not keen on marriage so early in life and while still attending college, only did so at his mother's insistence.[11] They had nine children, two of whom died in early childhood.
Rowshan Ershad (aged 13) was married to Hussain Muhammad Ershad (aged 26) in 1956.
Khaleda Zia (aged 15) was married to Ziaur Rahman (aged 24) in 1960.
Dimple Kapadia (aged 15) was married to Rajesh Khanna (aged 30) in March 1973.
Europe [ edit ]
From 380 A.D. to 1983 A.D., the age of majority was 21 years old in the Roman Catholic Church, which was adopted into canon law from Roman law. From 380 A.D. to 1971 A.D. the minimum marriageable age was 12 years for females and 14 years for males in the Roman Catholic Church, which was adopted into canon law from Roman law.
During the Holy Roman Empire (9th–19th centuries), age of majority was 21 years old and minimum marriageable age was 12 years for females and 14 years for males. There were some fathers who arranged marriages for a son or a daughter before he or she reached the age of maturity. Consummation would not take place until the age of maturity. Roman Catholic canon law defines a marriage as consummated when the "spouses have performed between themselves in a human fashion a conjugal act which is suitable in itself for the procreation of offspring, to which marriage is ordered by its nature and by which the spouses become one flesh."[12]
In England, the Marriage Act 1753 required a marriage to be covered by a license (requiring parental consent for those under 21) or the publication of banns (which parents of those under 21 could forbid). The Church of England dictated that both the bride and groom must be at least 21 years of age to marry without the consent of their families; in the certificates, the most common age for the brides is 22 years. For the grooms 24 years was the most common age, with average ages of 24 years for the brides and 27 for the grooms.[13] While European noblewomen often married early, they were a small minority of the population,[14] and the marriage certificates from Canterbury show that, in England, even among nobility it was very rare to marry women off at very early ages.[13]
In England, the minimum marriageable age was raised to 16 in 1929. Before then, the minimum marriageable age was 12 for females and 14 for males. In 1971, the age of majority was lowered to 18 years old.
The age of majority is 18 years old since 1983 C.E. and the minimum marriageable age is 14 years old for females and 16 years old for males since in 1917 C.E in the Roman Catholic Church.
9th century [ edit ]
Æthelswith (aged about 14/15) was married to Burgred of Mercia in 853.
Judith of Flanders (aged about 12/13) was married to Æthelwulf, King of Wessex (aged about 61), in October 856. After Æthelwulf's death in January 858, Judith (now about 14/15) was remarried later that year to the new king, her stepson Æthelbald. Her second husband died in 860, and she was married to Baldwin I, Margrave of Flanders, in either 861 or 862, when she was around 17–19 years old.
Beatrice of Vermandois (aged about 10) was married to Robert, Margrave of Neustria (aged about 24; later King of West Francia), in c. 890
10th century [ edit ]
Bertha of Swabia (aged about 15) was married to Rudolph II of Burgundy (aged about 42) in 922.
Emma of Italy (aged about 17) was married to Lothair of France (aged 23/24) in 965.
Theophanu (aged about 17) was married to the future Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (aged 16/17), in 972.
Gerberga of Burgundy was about 12/13 when she was married to Herman I, Count of Werl, in circa 978.
Gisela of Hungary (aged about 11) was married to Stephen I of Hungary (aged about 21) in 996.
11th century [ edit ]
Constance of France (aged between about 15 and 17) was married to Hugh I, Count of Troyes (aged between about 19 and 21), between 1093 and 1095.
12th century [ edit ]
Cecile of France (aged 8/9) was married to Tancred, Prince of Galilee (aged 30/31), in late 1106. As he was dying in 1112, Tancred made Pons, Count of Tripoli, promise to marry her; Pons and Cecile were married later that year, when she was 14/15 and he was 13/14.
Sybilla of Normandy (aged about 15) was married to Alexander I of Scotland (aged about 29) circa 1107.
Sibylla of Anjou (aged about 11) was married to William Clito (aged 20/21) in 1123. The marriage was annulled the following year on the grounds of consanguinity.
Eleanor of Aquitaine was about 15 when she married Louis VII of France (aged 17) in 1137; their marriage was annulled in 1152. She went on to marry Henry II of England that same year.
Agnes of Courtenay was no more than 15-years-old when she was married to Reynald of Marash, sometime before 29 June 1149.
Constance of Castile (born between 1136 and 1140) was at most 18-years-old when she married Louis VII of France (33/34) in 1154.
Theodora Komnene was about 13-years-old when she was married Baldwin III of Jerusalem (aged 27/28) in 1158.
Eleanor of England, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitane and Henry II of England, married 15-year-old Alfonso VIII of Castile in 1170, when she was about 9-years-old.
Margaret of France (aged 13/14) was married to Henry the Young King (aged 17) in 1172. They had been betrothed since 1160, when Margaret was about 2 and Henry was 5.
Agnes of France was betrothed at age 8 and is reported to have been 9-years-old when she married Alexios II Komnenos (aged 10) in 1180. She was widowed in 1183 at the age of 12, and was then married to Andronicus Comnenus (aged 65); he died two years later.
Isabella of Hainault (aged 10) married Philip II of France (aged 14) in 1180. She had previously been betrothed to Henry, future Count of Champagne, when he was 5 and she was only 1.
Isabella of Jerusalem (aged 10/11) married Humphrey IV of Toron (aged about 17) in 1183. They had been betrothed when Isabella was 8-years-old.
Berengaria of Castile married Conrad II, Duke of Swabia (aged 13/14), in 1187, when she was about 8-years-old. The marriage was never consummated due to her young age. After Conrad's death in 1196, Berengaria married her first cousin once removed Alfonso IX of León (aged 25/26) in 1197, when she was about 17- or 18-years-old. The marriage was eventually annulled by the Pope in 1204 on the grounds of consanguinity.
13th century [ edit ]
Marie of France (aged 12/13) was married to Philip I of Namur (aged about 36) in 1211. After his death a year later, she was then married at the age of 14/15 to Henry I, Duke of Brabant (aged about 48).
Beatrice of Hohenstaufen (aged about 11 or 14) was married to Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor (aged about 34 or 37), in either 1209 or 1212.
Philippa of Champagne (aged about 17) was married to Erard of Brienne-Ramerupt (aged about 44) in 1214.
Marie of Brienne (aged about 10) was married to Baldwin II of Constantinople (aged about 17) in 1234.
Beatrice of Provence (aged about 17) was married to Charles I of Sicily (aged about 20) in 1246.
Elizabeth the Cuman (aged 8/9) was married to the future Stephen V of Hungary in 1253.
Beatrice of England (aged 17) was married to John de Dreux (aged 20/21) in January 1260.
Isabella of Aragon (aged 13/14) was married to the future Philip III of France (aged 17) in May 1262. They had been betrothed since May 1258, when she was 9/10 and he was 13.
Elizabeth of Sicily (aged 8/9) was married to the future Ladislaus IV of Hungary (aged 7/8) in 1270.
Isabella of Villehardouin (aged either 8 or 11) was married to Philip of Sicily (aged about 15/16) in May 1271.
María de Molina (aged about 17) was married to the future Sancho IV of Castile (aged 23/24) in 1282.
Joan I of Navarre (aged 11) was married to the future Philip IV of France (aged 16) in August 1285.
Margaret of England (aged 15) was married to John II, Duke of Brabant (aged 14), in 1290. Margaret and John had been betrothed since they were 3 and 2, respectively.
14th century [ edit ]
Margaret of Burgundy (aged about 15) was married to the future Louis X of France (aged 15) in 1305.
Anna Přemyslovna (aged 15/6) was married to Henry of Bohemia (aged about 41) in 1306.
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Blanche of Burgundy (aged about 11/12) was married to the future Charles IV of France (aged 13) in January 1308.
Elizabeth de Clare (aged about 13) was married to John de Burgh (aged 21/22) in 1308.
Elizabeth de Badlesmere (aged 3) was married to Edmund Mortimer (aged about 13/14, possibly younger) in 1316.
Katherine Mortimer (aged about 5) was married to Thomas Beauchamp (aged about 6) in 1319.
Margaret Mortimer (aged about 15) was married to Thomas de Berkeley (between the ages of 23 and 26) in 1319.
Joan of Valois (aged about 16) was married to Robert III of Artois (aged about 33) circa 1320.
Constanza Manuel of Villena (aged at most 10) was married to Alfonso XI of Castile (aged 13/14) in 1325. The marriage was annulled two years later.
Blanche of Valois (aged about 12/13) was married to Charles IV, King of Bohemia (aged about 12/13; later Holy Roman Emperor), in 1329.
The future Joanna I of Naples (aged about 6/7) was married to Andrew of Hungary (aged 6) in 1333.
Beatrice of Bourbon (aged 14) was married to her second cousin John of Bohemia (aged 38) in December 1334.
Joan of Kent (aged 12) secretly married Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent (aged 26), in 1340. Holland went to war overseas, and her family arranged for the 13-year-old Joan to marry William Montagu (aged 12) in either late 1340 or early 1341. When Holland returned, the marriage was revealed, and Holland petitioned the Pope to have Holland's wife returned to him. Following the ruling in Holland's favor in 1349, Pope Clement VI annulled the marriage to Montagu and ordered Joan and Holland to be married in the Church.
Maud de Ufford (born 1345/46) was married to Thomas de Vere, 8th Earl of Oxford (aged about 15), sometime before 10 June 1350, when Maud was about 5-years-old.
Bianca of Savoy (aged 12/13) was married to Galeazzo II Visconti (aged about 30) in September 1350.
Anna von Schweidnitz (aged 14) was married to Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor (aged 37), in 1353. She had originally been betrothed at age 11 to Charles's newborn son and heir, Wencelaus, but after the death of both Wenceslaus and his mother, Charles asked to marry Anna himself.
Elizabeth de Bohun (aged about 9) was married to Richard Fitzalan (aged 12/13) in 1359.
Isabella of Valois (aged 11/12) was married to Gian Galeazzo Visconti (aged 8) in October 1360, about a week before Gian's 9th birthday.
Katherine de Roet (aged 16/17) was married to Hugh Ottes Swynford circa 1366. She would go on to become the mistress and later wife of John of Gaunt.
Anne Mauny (aged 13) was married to John Hastings, 2nd Earl of Pembroke (aged 20), in 1368, following the death of his first wife, Margaret, in 1361.
Eleanor of Castile (aged about 12) was married to the future Charles III of Navarre (aged 13/14) in May 1375.
Mary de Bohun (aged about 10/11) was married to Henry Bolingbroke (aged 13; later King Henry IV of England) in 1380.
Margaret of Burgundy (aged 10) was married to the future William II, Duke of Bavaria (aged 19), in April 1385, a week before William's 20th birthday.
Joan of Navarre (aged about 17/18) was married to John IV, Duke of Brittany (aged 46/47), in 1386.
Jadwiga of Poland (aged about 12/13) was married to Władysław II Jagiełło (aged about 24/34) in February 1386.
Marie of Brittany (aged 5) was married to John of Perche (aged 10/11) in July 1396.
15th century [ edit ]
Blanche I of Navarre (aged 14) was married by proxy to Martin I of Sicily (aged about 28) in May 1402. An in-person ceremony was later performed in December of that year.
Johanna van Polanen (aged 11) was married to Engelbert I of Nassau (aged about 34) on 1 August 1403.
Isabella of Valois (aged 6) was married to Richard II of England (aged 29) in October 1396, a little over a week before her seventh birthday. The marriage was never consummated. After Richard's death, Isabella married her cousin Charles, Duke of Orléans (aged 11), in June 1406, when she was 16.
Michelle of Valois (aged 14) was married to Philip the Good (aged 12) in June 1409.
Blanche of Navarre (aged 15/16) was married to her cousin Henry IV of Castile (aged 14/15) in 1440.
Lady Eleanor Talbot (aged 13) was married to Sir Thomas Butler, son of Ralph Boteler, 1st Baron Sudeley, in 1449.
Margaret Beaufort, (age 7; approximately) was married to John de la Pole (age 7) in 1450 by the arrangement John's father.[15] The marriage was annulled in 1453.[16] She was then married again at age 12 to Edmund Tudor, age 25.
Margaret of Brittany (aged about 12) was married to Francis of Étampes (aged 22) in 1455.
Margaret of Denmark (aged 13) was married to James III of Scotland (aged about 17/18) in July 1469.
Eleanor of Viseu (aged 11) was married to her first cousin John, Prince of Portugal (aged 14) in January 1470.
Caterina Sforza was betrothed at age 10 to Girolamo Riario (aged 29/30) in 1473. Some sources state that they married in that year, but that the marriage was not consummated until 1477, when Caterina turned 14, the legal age at the time.
Joan of France, Duchess of Berry (age 12), was betrothed in a wedding contract at age 8-days-old, she was officially married at the age of twelve in 1476,[17] to her cousin Louis, Duke of Orléans (aged 14).
Anne of Brittany (aged 13) was married by proxy to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (aged 31), in 1490. After Charles VIII of France (aged 21) stormed the city where she was staying, she was married to him in 1491, at the age of 14; her marriage to Maximilian was annulled the following year.
Margery Wentworth (aged about 16) was married to John Seymour (aged about 20) in 1494. They became the parents of Jane Seymour.
Joanna of Castile (aged 17) was married to Philip of Flanders (aged 18) in October 1496.
Beatrice de Frangepan (aged 15/16) was married to John Corvinus (aged 22/23) in 1496.
Louise de Bourbon (aged 16/17), was married to Andre III de Chauvigny in 1499.
16th century [ edit ]
Catherine of Aragon (aged 15), was married to Arthur, Prince of Wales (aged 15), in 1501. She was widowed a few months later and eventually married Arthur's younger brother, Henry VIII of England (aged 17), a couple of weeks before his 18th birthday.
Margaret Tudor (aged 13), elder sister of Henry VIII, was married to James IV of Scotland (aged 29) in 1503.
Anne de La Tour d'Auvergne (aged 8/9) was married to her first cousin John Stewart, Duke of Albany (aged about 21 or 24), in July 1505.
Diane de Poitiers (aged 15) was married to Louis de Brézé (aged about 54) in 1515.
Lady Mary Brandon was at most 17-years-old when she was married to Thomas Stanley, 2nd Baron Monteagle, sometime before 1527.
Catherine Carey (aged about 16), daughter of Anne Boleyn's sister Mary, was married to Sir Francis Knollys (aged about 29) in April 1540.
Christina of Denmark (aged 11) was married by proxy to Francis II, Duke of Milan (aged 38), in September 1533. They were married in person in May 1534, when she was 12 and he was 39. After her first husband's death in 1535, she was considered as a possible fourth wife for Henry VIII, who at the time was 46, while she was only 16. However, the match was opposed by both Christina and her aunt Mary of Hungary, and so it never materialized. Christina eventually married Francis, Duke of Bar (aged 23), in July 1541, when she was 19.
Lady Eleanor Brandon (aged 15/16) was married to Henry Clifford (aged 17/18) in 1535.
Catherine Howard was about 17-years-old when she was married to Henry VIII of England (aged 49) in 1540.
Maria Manuela, Princess of Portugal (aged 16), was married to her double first cousin Philip, Prince of Asturias (aged 16; later Philip II of Spain), in 1543.
Joanna of Austria (aged 16) was married to her double first cousin João Manuel, Prince of Portugal (aged 14), in 1552.
Lady Jane Grey (aged about 16/17) was married to Lord Guildford Dudley (aged 17/18) in 1553.
Lady Katherine Grey (aged 12), younger sister of Lady Jane Grey, was married to Henry, Lord Herbert, in 1553. Henry was at most 15-years-old. The marriage was annulled in 1554.
Mary, Queen of Scots (aged 15/16), was married to Francis, Dauphin of France (aged 13/14), in 1558. The pair had been betrothed since Mary was five and Francis was three. Mary had originally been betrothed when she was six months old to the future Edward VI of England, whom she was supposed to marry at the age of ten.
Lucrezia de' Medici (aged 12) was married to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Modena (aged 24), in 1558. As Alfonso was fighting in France at the time, she did not move to his home in Ferrara until two years later. She died at the age of 16, and is believed to have been poisoned by her husband.
Bianca Cappello (aged 15) fell in love with Pietro Bonaventuri and, in November 1563, eloped with him to Florence, where they were married.
Anne Knollys (aged 16), younger sister of Lettice Knollys, was married to Thomas West, 2nd Baron De La Warr (aged about 21), in November 1571.
Margherita Farnese (aged 13) was married to Vincenzo Gonzaga (aged 18), the future Duke of Mantua, in March 1581. The marriage was annulled in May 1583 on grounds of non-consummation, Vincenzo claiming Margherita had been unable to do so due to a deformity[19] and Margherita accusing Vincenzo of impotence.
Frances Walsingham (aged 16) was married to Sir Philip Sidney (aged 28/29) in 1583.
Lady Bridget de Vere (aged 15) was married to Francis Norris (aged 19), in April 1599, a few weeks after her 15th birthday.
17th century [ edit ]
Pocahontas (aged about 17/18) was married to John Rolfe (aged 28/29) in April 1614.
Elizabeth Stuart (aged 16), eldest daughter of James VI and I and Anne of Denmark, married Frederick V, Elector Palatine (aged 16), in 1613.
Lady Dorothy Percy (aged about 17) was married to Robert Sidney (aged 19/20) in 1615.
Anne of Austria (aged 14) was married to her second cousin Louis XIII of France (aged 14) in November 1615.
Lady Margaret Sackville (aged 14) was married to John Tufton, 2nd Earl of Thanet (aged 20), in 1629.
Magdalene Sibylle of Saxony (aged 16) married Christian, Prince-Elect of Denmark (aged 30), in 1634. The couple were engaged in 1633, and the marriage had been discussed as early as 1630.
Countess Leonora Christina of Schleswig-Holstein (aged 15), daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk, married Corfitz Ulfeldt (aged 30) in 1636.
Claudine Françoise Mignot (aged 16) was married to Pierre de Portes d'Ambérieux in July 1640. She later went on to marry John II Casimir Vasa, former King of Poland.
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Mary, Princess Royal (aged 9), married the future William II, Prince of Orange (aged 15), in 1641. The marriage was reported to not have been consummated for a number of years due to the bride's age.
Countess Christiane of Schleswig-Holstein (aged 16), daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk, married Hannibal Sehested (aged 33) in 1642.
Countess Hedwig of Schleswig-Holstein (aged 16), daughter of King Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk, married Ebbe Ulfeldt in 1642.
Princess Augusta of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (aged 17), married her first cousin Ernest Günther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (aged 43), in June 1651, twelve days shy of her 18th birthday.
Jane Needham (aged about 14/15) was married to Charles Myddelton (aged 24/25) in 1660.
Frances Jennings (aged 16) was married to George Hamilton in 1665.
Infanta Margaret Teresa of Spain (aged 15) was married to Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor (aged 26), who was her maternal uncle and paternal first cousin once removed, in December 1666. They had been betrothed since 1663.
The future Mary II of England (aged 15), then known as The Lady Mary, married her first cousin William, Prince of Orange (aged 27) in 1677.
Lady Charlotte Fitzroy (aged 13) was married to Sir Edward Lee (aged 14) in 1677. They had been betrothed since 1674, before Charlotte's tenth birthday.
Sarah Jennings (aged 17) secretly married John Churchill (aged 27) in the winter of 1677/78.
Agafya Grushetskaya (aged 16/17) was married to Feodor III of Russia (aged 19) in July 1680.
Princess Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł (aged 13) was married to Margrave Louis of Brandenburg in January 1681.
Sophia Dorothea of Celle (aged 16) married her cousin George Louis, Electoral Prince of Hanover (aged 22) in 1682. They divorced 1694; he later went on to become George I of Great Britain.
Henrietta Howard (aged about 17) was married to Henry Horatio O'Brien, Lord Ibrackan, in June 1686.
Honora Burke (aged about 14) was married to Patrick Sarsfield (aged about 34) in 1689.
18th century [ edit ]
Maria Luisa Gabriela of Savoy (aged 12) was married to Philip V of Spain (aged 17) in September 1701, five days before her 13th birthday.
Henrietta Hobart (aged 16/17) was married to Hon. Charles Howard (aged 20/21) in March 1706.
Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (aged 16) was married to the future Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (aged 22), in August 1708, a few weeks before her 17th birthday.
Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (aged 16) was married to her first cousin once removed the future Ferdinand Albert II, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (aged 32), in October 1712.
Sarah Cadogan (aged 14) was married to Charles Lennox, Earl of March (aged 18), in December 1719. Lennox later succeeded as the Duke of Richmond, and the couple became the parents of the famous Lennox sisters.
Infanta Mariana Victoria of Spain (aged 10) was married to José, Prince of Brazil (aged 14), in January 1729. She had previously been engaged at the age of 3 to her first cousin the 10-year-old Louis XV of France. She was sent to France, where she remained until the age of 7, when Louis reached his majority and rejected her as a bride.
Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, Duchess of Massa (aged 9), was married by proxy to Prince Eugenio of Savoy, Count of Soissons (aged 20), in November 1734. However, since he died thirteen days later, they never met and the marriage was annulled on the grounds that it was never consummated. Some years later, in 1741, Maria Teresa, now 15/16-years-old, was married to Ercole Rinaldo d'Este (aged 13/14).
Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (later known as Catherine the Great) was 16-years-old when she married her 17-year-old second cousin Peter of Holstein-Gottorp (later Peter III of Russia) in 1745.
Lady Louisa Lennox (aged 15) was married to Thomas Conolly (aged 19/20) in 1758.
Lady Sarah Lennox (aged 17) was married to Charles Bunbury (aged 22) in 1762.
Theodosia Bartow (aged 17) married Jacques Marcus Prevost (aged 27) in 1763. After her husband's death, Theodosia would marry future American Vice President Aaron Burr.
Letizia Ramolino (aged 13) was married to Carlo Buonaparte (aged 17) in June 1764.
Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria (aged 14; later known as Marie Antoinette) was married to Louis-Auguste, Dauphin of France (aged 15), in April 1770.
Marie Joséphine of Savoy (aged 17) was married to Louis Stanilas, Count of Provence (the 15-year-old future King Louis XVIII of France), in 1771.
Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp (aged 15) was married to her cousin Charles, Duke of Södermanland (the 25-year-old future Charles XIII of Sweden), in 1774.
Wilhelmine of Prussia (aged 16) was married to her cousin the future William I of the Netherlands (aged 19) in 1791.
Pauline Bonaparte (aged 16) was married to Charles Leclerc (aged 25) in June 1797.
19th century [ edit ]
Caroline Bonaparte (aged 17) was married to Joachim Murat (aged 32) in January 1800.
Princess Maria Antonia of Naples and Sicily (aged 17) was married to her first cousin Ferdinand, Prince of Asturias (aged 17), in October 1802, about a week before Ferdinand's 18th birthday.
Harriet Westbrook (aged 16) married Percy Bysshe Shelley (aged 19) in August 1811.
Jane Cleveland (aged 15/16) married John Edward Johnson in 1814.
Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (aged 17) was married to Archduke Charles of Austria (aged 44) in September 1815, about a month before her 18th birthday.
Susan May Williams (aged 17), an American heiress, was married to Jérôme Napoléon Bonaparte (aged 24) in November 1829.
Persida Nenadović (aged 17) was married to Alexander Karađorđević (aged 23) in 1830.
Elizabeth Medora Leigh was, as a young teenager, seduced by her brother-in-law, Henry Trevanion, by whom she fell pregnant twice. After the second pregnancy ended in a miscarriage, she eloped with him to France in 1831, at age 16/17.
Isabella II of Spain (aged 16) was married to her double first cousin Francis, Duke of Cádiz (aged 24), in October 1846. The ceremony was held on Isabella's 16th birthday, and was a double wedding with Isabella's younger sister, Infanta Luisa Fernanda, marrying the Duke of Montpensier.
Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain (aged 14) was married to her first cousin once removed Antoine, Duke of Montpensier (aged 22), in October 1846. The ceremony was a double wedding with her elder sister, Isabella II of Spain, marrying the Duke of Cádiz.
Princess Charlotte of Belgium (aged 17) married her 25-year-old second cousin Archduke Maximilian of Austria (later Maximilian I of Mexico) in 1857.
Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugal (aged 17) was about a month shy of her 18th birthday when she married Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (aged 39) in 1873.
Mercedes of Orléans (aged 17) was married to her first cousin Alfonso XII of Spain (aged 20) in January 1878.
Princess Charlotte of Prussia (aged 17) married her second cousin Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Meiningen (aged 26) in February 1878, after a year-long engagement.
Princess Stéphanie of Belgium (aged 16) was married to Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (aged 22), in May 1881, a little over a week before her 17th birthday.
Princess Dorothea of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (aged 17) was married to Ernst Gunther, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (aged 34), in August 1898, a little over a week before his 35th birthday.
20th century [ edit ]
Beverley Callard (aged 16) married Paul Atkinson in 1974.[20]
North America [ edit ]
17th century [ edit ]
Maria van Cortlandt (aged 16) was married to Jeremias van Rensselaer (aged 30) in July 1662, about a week before Maria's 17th birthday.
Marguerite Sédilot (age 11 and a half) married Jean Aubuchon of Trois-Rivieres, Quebec on 19 Sep 1654.
18th century [ edit ]
Lawrence Washington (aged 25), half-brother of George Washington, married Anne Fairfax (aged 15), daughter of Colonel William Fairfax, in July 1743.
Arthur Dobbs (aged 73) married Justina Davis (aged 15) in 1762.
19th century [ edit ]
For the latter half of the 19th century between 13-18% of native-born white female first marriages in the US were under age 18.[21]
Catherine Willis Gray (aged 14/15) was married to Atchison Gray (aged 17/18) in 1818. She later went on to marry Prince Achille Murat.
Emily Donelson (aged 17) married her first cousin Andrew Jackson Donelson (aged 25) in September 1824. They were the niece and nephew of future United States President Andrew Jackson.
Eliza McCardle (aged 16) married Andrew Johnson (aged 18) in May 1827. Johnson later became the seventeenth President of the United States.
Letitia Tyler (aged 17), daughter of U.S. President John Tyler, married James A. Semple in February 1839.
Harriet Howe (aged 15/16) married Henry Wilson (aged 28) in October 1840. Wilson later served as Vice President of the United States during the Grant administration.
Mary Cyrene Burch (aged 17) married John C. Breckinridge (aged 22) in December 1843. Breckinridge later served as Vice President of the United States during the Buchanan administration.
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe (aged 13) married her first cousin Edgar Allan Poe (aged 27) in September 1837.
Mary King (aged about 17) was married to William A. Wheeler (aged 25/26, later VP in the Hayes administration) in 1845.
Susie Baker (aged about 14) married Edward King in 1862.[23]
20th century [ edit ]
Gladys Pearl Baker (aged 15) married Jasper Newton Baker (aged 31) in 1917.
Frances Belle Heenan (aged 15) married New York City real estate developer Edward Browning (aged 51) in April 1926.[24]
Ruchoma Shain (aged 17) married Moshe Shain in 1931.
Eunice Winstead (aged 9) married Charlie Johns in 1937.[25][26]
Marilyn Monroe (aged 16) married James Dougherty (aged 21) in June 1942.
Janet Leigh (aged 15) married John Carlisle (aged 18) in August 1942.
Karen Black (aged 15) married Charles Black in 1954.[27]
Jill St. John (aged 16) married Neil Dubin (aged 22) in May 1957.
Myra Brown (aged 13) married Jerry Lee Lewis (aged 22) on December 12, 1957. The marriage was repeated June 4, 1958 because his previous divorce wasn't finalized.
Lana Wood (aged 16) married Jack Wrather Jr. (aged 18) in December 1962.
Sherry Johnson (aged 11) was compelled by her mother to marry Alfonsa Tolbert (a deacon in their church and the man who had raped and impregnated Sherry) in March 1971.
Rena Chynoweth (aged 16) was married to Ervil LeBaron (aged about 49) circa 1974. Chynoweth was among at least thirteen plural wives LeBaron married, many of whom were underage at the time of their marriages.
Xiomara Castro (aged 16) married Manuel Zelaya (aged 23) in January 1976.
Demi Moore (aged 17) married Freddy Moore (aged 29) in February 1980.
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