Note 967 — Chapter VII · RISE OF ECCLESIASTICAL MARRIAGE: THE CHURCH ACCEPTS THE LAY CONTRACT AND CEREMONIAL
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Charles the Great in the Capitulary of 802, c. 35, Walter, Corpus juris germ., II, 167, prescribes the benediction of the nuptials by a priest; but this is thought to have had little effect. The benediction is also required by several false capitularies: Friedberg, Eheschliessung, 58, 59. On this decree of 802 see also Schubert, Die evangel. Trauung, 19; Beauchet, Étude, 30, 31.