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document — Palmieri, On Christian Marriage

From the Council of London, Lanfranc of Canterbury Presiding, A.D. 1075

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Capitulum VI. From the decrees of Gregory the greater and also the younger: that no one accept as wife from his own cognation, or from that of his deceased wife, or one whom a cognate had, until kinship on either side reaches the seventh degree.

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