The importance of the consent in the validity of marriage in

the thirteenth century Iberian Peninsula.

The individual consent of each part and the abscence of external

restraint, about both juveniles in adulthood, in medieval terms,
would be preconditions of validity over a marriage. Naturally, many
other elements would intervene in the acceptance or not of the
political decorum of a matrimonial bond with laws of international
alliance by the grooms, such as individual shape and awareness of
its importance in the socio-political picture. The proper groom´s
political projects, here seems to speak louder than his obligations
as a son of the monarchy. In this context we observe the initiative
of a young noble, genuine daughter of the Portuguese monarchy
delimiting its right to obtain the annulment of its consortium due to
the abscence of free will of the suitor in accomplishing it.

Keywords: Hundred Years' War/ Marriage/ Consent