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Marriage Age Gap Greater Than Fifty Years is in Marriages with Large Age Gaps.
After 14th October 1257 Richard Percy 5th Baron Percy Topcliffe and Agnes Neville (age 36) were married. The difference in their ages was 51 years.
In 1284 Reginald Cobham (age 47) and Joan Devereux were married. There is some confusion here as to which Joan Devereux he married since she was born six years after the supposed marriage?. The difference in their ages was 53 years.
In 1422 Władysław II Jagiełło (age 70) and Sophia of Halshany (age 17) were married. The difference in their ages was 53 years.
After 12th November 1529 Robert Drury (age 75) and Anne Jerningham (age 25) were married. The difference in their ages was 50 years.
In September 1603 Charles Howard 1st Earl Nottingham (age 67) and Margaret Stewart 1st Countess Nottingham (age 12) were married. She by marriage Countess Nottingham. The difference in their ages was 55 years. She the daughter of James "The Bonnie Earl" Stewart 2nd Earl of Moray and Elizabeth Stewart 2nd Countess Moray. They were half fourth cousin twice removed. She a great x 3 granddaughter of King Henry VII of England and Ireland.
On 20th October 1677 Samuel Sleigh of Ash and Etwall (age 72) and Elizabeth Harpur (age 21) were married. The difference in their ages was 51 years.
On 19th January 1818 Count Alessandro Guiccioli (age 68) and Teresa Countess Guiccioli (age 18) were married. His third wife. The difference in their ages was 50 years.
On 7th September 1854 Francis L'Esrange Astley (age 44) and Florence Conyngham were married. The difference in their ages was 56 years. She the daughter of George Henry Conyngham 3rd Marquess Conyngham (age 29) and Jane St Maur Blanche Stanhope Marchioness Conyngham (age 21).
On 28th April 1898 Charles Lindsay Orr-Ewing (age 37) and Augusta Boyle were married. The difference in their ages was 59 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
Bishop John Hinchliffe and Elizabeth Crew Countess Arran were married. The difference in their ages was 52 years; she, unusually, being older than him.
In or before Thomas Tempest of Bracewell and Elizabeth Bosvile were married. The difference in their ages was 52 years.
William de Valoignes and Loretta Quincy were married. The difference in their ages was 51 years. She the daughter of Saer Quincy 1st Earl Winchester and Margaret Beaumont Countess Winchester.