Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

In Yorkshire in the 14th and 15th centuries, the age range for most brides was between 18 and 22 years and the age of the grooms was similar; rural Yorkshire women tended to marry in their late teens to early twenties while their urban counterparts married in their early to middle twenties. In the 15th century, the average Italian bride was 18 and married a groom 10–12 years her senior. An unmarried Tuscan woman 21 years of age would be seen as past marriageable age, the benchmark for which was 19 years, and easily 97 percent of Florentine women were married by the age of 25 years while 21 years was the average age of a contemporary English bride.

The average age at first marriage had gradually risen again by late sixteenth century; the population had stabilized and availability of jobs and land had lessened. In the last decades of the century the age at marriage had climbed to averages of 25 for women and 27 for men in England and the Low Countries as more people married later or remained unmarried due to lack of money or resources and a decline in living standards, and these averages remained high for nearly two centuries and averages across Northwestern Europe had done likewise.

Just backread a bit and have to say that marrying at such a young age was not common unless it was absolutely necessary (lots of people dying to a plague etc and you needed to repopulate)

Having difficulty finding actual ages for Italy but in England at kinda the same time:


Of course it was a bit earlier with nobles but 13 is a bit early

I need artwork done and I would be willing to pay upwards to $800 for it, but would need to purchase it legally and have it become my own property. >.>