The first betrothal was to his distant cousin Aemilia Lepida, but was broken for political reasons.

According to the Babylonian Talmud, the difference between a concubine and a full wife was that the latter received a marriage contract ( Hebrew: ketubah ) and her marriage ( nissu ' in ) was preceded by a formal betrothal ( erusin ), neither being the case for a concubine.

Since a wife was regarded as property in biblical times, the betrothal ( erusin ) was effected simply by purchasing her from her father ( or guardian ); the girl ’ s consent is not explicitly required by any biblical law.

His Mansab was raised to Twelve Thousand, in 1585, at the time of his betrothal to his cousin Manbhawati Bai, daughter of Bhagwant Das of Amber.

The death of Henry's eldest son, Henry the Young King in June 1183 began a dispute over the dower of the widowed Margaret, who was Philip's sister, who insisted that it should be returned to France as the marriage did not produce any children, as per the betrothal agreement.

This should have reverted to Philip upon the end of the betrothal, but Philip, to prevent the collapse of the Crusade, agreed that this territory was to remain in Richard's hands, and would be inherited by his male descendents.

A peace treaty was secured in January 1169 and Richard's betrothal to Alys was confirmed.

At the ceremony where Richard's betrothal was confirmed, he paid homage to the King of France for Aquitaine, thus securing ties of vassalage between the two.

Under the terms of Margaret's betrothal, she was sent to Louis to be brought up under his guardianship.

The final result of all of these machinations was that Charles repudiated his betrothal to Margaret when he came of age in 1491, invaded Brittany, forced Anne of Brittany to repudiate her unconsummated marriage to Maximilian, and married her.

She was sent back to her father in 1492 after Charles repudiated their betrothal to marry Anne of Brittany.

Early in 1523 there was a secret betrothal between Anne and Henry Percy, son of the 5th Earl of Northumberland.

However, in January of 1524 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey broke the betrothal, Anne was sent back home to Hever Castle, and Percy was married to Lady Mary Talbot, to whom he had been betrothed since adolescence.

During this time, Anne was courted by Henry Percy, son of the Earl of Northumberland, and entered into a secret betrothal with the young man.

The first well-documented use of a diamond ring to signify engagement was by the Archduke Maximilian of Austria in imperial court of Vienna in 1477, upon his betrothal to Mary of Burgundy.

According to Orderic Vitalis, Harold was at some time betrothed to Adeliza, a daughter of William, Duke of Normandy, later William the Conqueror ; if so, the betrothal never led to marriage.

The treaty was sealed by the betrothal of Catherine's thirteen-year-old daughter Elisabeth to Philip II of Spain.

Through her mother, Richeza was a niece of Emperor Otto III ( who was instrumental to her betrothal ), Adelheid I, Abbess of Quedlinburg and Sophia I, Abbess of Gandersheim.

In 1483 at the age of ten, Cecilia was betrothed to Stefano Visconti, but the betrothal was broken off in 1487 for reasons unknown.

The broken betrothal caused a scandal, and Countess Clemence brought the issue before her brother Pope Calixtus II.

After Aldona's death, Casimir was betrothed to Jutta's elder sister Margaret, however this betrothal was also broken and Casimir remarried to Adelaide of Hesse.

* David Wu as Jingyun, Ruyi's betrothed as a child, the betrothal is broken off by Jingyun's family after they become aware of her opium addiction

: When he thought that he was old enough to marry ,— and up to that time he had consorted with no woman ,— he engaged himself to Lepida, who had formerly been betrothed to Metellus Scipio, but was now free, since Scipio had rejected her and the betrothal had been broken.

However for an unknown reason the betrothal was later broken off.

She was betrothed to Andrew, the third son of King Andrew II of Hungary in 1218, but the betrothal later broken in favor of a more advantageous Russian marriage of her bridegroom.

Tradition generally holds that if the betrothal fails because the man himself breaks off the engagement, the woman is not obliged to return the ring.

The Earl of Northumberland switched sides, however, and the betrothal was called off.

And so King Philip broke off the betrothal of Alix and the Breton prince Henry of Penthièvre, and turned to his French cousin Pierre, then in his early twenties.

However, this all changed in 450 when Honoria, sister of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, sent Attila a ring and requested his help to escape her betrothal to a senator.

The events leading to her eventual betrothal to the Dauphin of France began in 1765, when her father, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, died of a stroke in August, leaving Maria Theresa to co-rule with her elder son and heir, the Emperor Joseph II.

Cranach first made an engraving of Luther in 1520, when Luther was an Augustinian friar ; five years later, Luther renounced his religious vows, and Cranach was present as a witness at the betrothal festival of Luther and Katharina von Bora.

He headed further marriage negotiations, but when, in 1624, the betrothal to Henrietta Maria of France was announced, the choice of a Catholic was widely condemned.

Otto, already known for his unstable character, fell into a rage when he learned of the dissolution of his betrothal to Gertrude of Silesia by her father, Duke Henry I the Bearded of Lower Silesia.

The man died, however, without telling his daughter of her betrothal ; but when she heard of her father's wishes, she did not hesitate to comply with them.

He created and enforced a strong ducal power which, however, was met by many baronial revolts, one being in 1078, when he demanded from the Apulian vassals an " aid " on the betrothal of his daughter.

Sophonisba is distinctly unhappy and when she appears in her finery at the betrothal ceremony she swoons and breaks the ceremonial vessel.

The betrothal was confirmed, but the Emperor still delayed his departure until August 1225, when he and Isabella were married by proxy in the City of Acre.

Among the elite, 14 was the age of transition from childhood to adolescence, but a betrothal might be arranged for political reasons when the couple were too young to marry, and in general noble women married younger than women of the lower classes.

Still his position remained most delicate, especially when the betrothal between the grand-duke Peter and Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst ( afterwards Catherine II ) took place against his will, and Elizabeth of Holstein, the mother of the bride, arrived in the Prussian interests to spy upon him.

Spock explains that Vulcans are married as children (" less than marriage, more than a betrothal ") with the understanding that they will fulfill this commitment when they become adults.

In 1532 Percy, now Earl of Northumberland stood in great danger, when his wife accused him of a precontract ( i. e. betrothal with legal force ) with Anne Boleyn.

Her formal education ended when she was about thirteen or fourteen, when she was summoned by her father to consent to a betrothal arranged by her uncle and father.

That night Jasper is grief-stricken when Mr. Grewgious informs him that Edwin and Rosa had ended their betrothal ; he reacts more strongly to this news than to the prospect that Edwin was dead.

This developed from the Roman " annulus pronubis " when the man gave a ring to the woman at the betrothal ceremony.

However, this all changed in 450 when Honoria, sister of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, sent Attila a ring and requested his help to escape her betrothal to a senator.

Styled Viscount de Lomagne while his father lived, John succeeded him as Count of Armagnac when he died ( 5 November 1450 ); soon later, he started a relationship with his sister Isabelle, Lady of the Four-Valleys ( Dame des Quatre-Vallées ), ten years his junior, whom the chronicler Mathieu d ' Escouchy accounted one of the great beauties of France and whose betrothal to Henry VI of England had been under consideration.

The first ceremony ( the betrothal, which is today accomplished when the groom gives a wedding ring to the bride ) prohibits the bride to all other men and cannot be dissolved without a religious divorce ( get ).

In general the betrothal ceremony took place when the woman was still very young, generally around age twelve or thirteen.

Keawe's happiness is shattered on the night of his betrothal, when he discovers that he has contracted the incurable disease of leprosy.

Their betrothal occurred when she was no more than eight years old.