Alienor Of Aquitaine. The unruly Queen (№ 386318)

Of course, for a long time, as in the days Alianore, to bond the marriage bond the Church required mutual consent of the future spouses. So, theoretically could not marry his son or marry the daughter against their will. However, the pressure of family and society was so strongly and widely developed, and the power of parents and the authority of tradition had such coercive effect, which in Western Christian societies of that era (as in traditionalist Muslim families today), it's extremely rare to find a girl who took not the parent orders and choose a spouse on their own. The only means which she possessed, in order to evade a marriage, excessive contrary to her wishes, the tool permitted and even encouraged by the Church to Express their desire to become a "bride of Christ", giving a vow of chastity in a convent.