How common was killing in medieval times?
How common was killing in medieval times? Professor Stone has estimated that the homicide rate in medieval England was on average 10 times that of 20th century England. A study of the university town of Oxford in the 1340's showed an extraordinarily high annual rate of about 110 per 100,000 people.
How old were noble girls when they usually married?
An unknown source specializing in Renaissance weddings discusses this by stating, “The groom's average age is at least fourteen years older than their brides… Noble women were generally married off before they were nineteen. For a woman not to be married over the age of twenty-four was rare” (5).
What was the life expectancy in the 1300s?
1200–1300: to age 64. 1300–1400: to age 45 (because of the bubonic plague) 1400–1500: to age 69. 1500–1550: to age 71.