Who did a princess marry in the middle ages?

Answer 1

A princess would normally marry someone in a royal family or the high nobility. Royal marriages were a state matter and were connected with treaties. That being the case, the idea of a prince or princess marrying person who was outside these groups was almost unheard of, though we do have examples of such marriages.

Contrary to popular myth, adult princesses who were unmarried were often able to marry whomever they chose. Eleanor of Aquitaine married two different kings, and on both occasions did this on her own. She was not a princess, but was a duchess who controlled about a third of France.

I know of one example of a medieval princess who eventually married a commoner, and this was Catherine of Valois. She was a French princess who first married the English King Henry V. After Henry died, she married Owen Tudor, a Welsh commoner. As fate would have it, one of their grandchildren became King Henry VII.

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