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[–]literalotherkinNorm MacDonald Nationalism 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

and you skipped over the point in the study where the church could be paid off or convinced to allow the marriages.

Exactly and as I stated in my original post this was a habit only the wealthy and the aristocracy could afford to engage in hence things like the Habsburg jaw. Normal people couldn't afford things like that and that's why there's relatively low levels of consanguinity in European populations compared to other societies.