Dispensatio Consanguinitatis
In this post I was going to write about the life of Francois (Frank) Parent (Perault) but in the course of my research I found something unusual and interesting. I will get to the life story of Francois Parent, probably in the next post. In this post I will focus on the marriage of Francois Parent (1842 - 1922) and Martine St. Amand (1846 - 1934). Both Pierre Parent (the brother of Francois) and Francois were married in 1868. Pierre was married in January and Francois was married on February fifteenth. Pierre's marriage did not seem to have anything unusual about it but in in the marriage record for Francois andMartine there was a notation, 'dispensatio consanguinitatis'. I recognized the two words as being in Latin and that they had something to do with dispensing consanguinity . This was a puzzle and a mystery that I had to look into. The first place to look was the Catholic Church canon law . The canon law of the Catholic Church was based on Roman civil l...