Milford News | 1938-10-06 | Page 3 | Morganatic Marriages

Morganatic Marriages The origin of the term morganatic marriage is from the medieval Latin Lat-in phrase "matrimonium ad morga-naticam." morga-naticam." the last word referring to the German morge'ngabe morning gift; the meaning being that the children were entitled to nothing of the father's beyond his first, or "morning gift," that is, the privilege privi-lege of being born. A morganatic marriage is historically connected with an early German form of marriage mar-riage in which the mund the right of protection or guardianship was not acquired, but the morning gift was made.