You could get married as soon as you hit puberty – and parental consent was not required. Marriage was the only acceptable place for sex in the medieval period, and as a result Christians were allowed to marry from puberty onwards, generally seen at the time as age 12 for women and 14 for men.

How old did people marry in Middle Ages?

A young woman from a renowned family was normally married off at age between 14 to 18. A young man from a renowned family would marry between age of 16 to 21. A scholar, would marry after certain achievement at age of 30 to 50. While women of normal families would be marry off at age between 9 to 21.