Talk:Arthur, Prince of Wales
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[edit] Brother's Widow
In the Christian Bible it states that it is unclean for a man to take his brother's wife, and if a man did so, the union would be childless. Where does this idea come from? Leviticus commands a man to take his brother's widow if no children were produced, and I can't think of anything in the New Testament that supplanted that. Leviticus does forbid a man to take his brother's wife while he is still alive. Is that where the idea that a widow was also forbidden came from? Nik42 05:15, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
I didn't write this article, but that's exactly what happened to Katherine of Aragon and was why Henry VIII sought a divorce.
I thought that it was Deuteronomy that instructed a man to marry his brother's widow if he died childless, to raise children in his brother's name or something along those lines. There must have been some rule against a man marrying his brother's widow; why else would a dispensation have been needed in the first place?
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.71.15.86 (talk) 10:29, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
