Many testators were in their dotage, of course, but a good proportion died young, still apprenticed, perhaps mentioning parents, siblings and, sometimes, a betrothed.
The two women to whom he is either betrothed or married are more forthcoming, however.
Especially noteworthy in this respect were relations between betrothed, since a man would not marry a woman who could not bear children.
In this case a young woman, already betrothed, had revealed her preference for another man.
The proclamation of healing, the quitting of their bedrooms by the newly betrothed, and the declaration of a three-day fast are significant elements in that legend.
He was betrothed and qualified as a journeyman.
Gawain leaves the spot perplexed but soon gains an inkling of the circumstances when he encounters a maiden who happen to be the knight's betrothed.
The verbal consent between a man and a woman to marry, even if not betrothed, is enough to make their marriage binding.
