Daily Ancestormatrimonium
Matrimonium is Latin for "marriage" or "matrimony," used in marriage registers and church records.
Matrimonium means marriage. It appears in register titles (Liber Matrimoniorum, book of marriages) and in phrases about the marriage itself.
If you are looking for a Catholic marriage in a Latin register, check the book's title page or spine for Matrimonia. Baptisms, marriages and burials were often kept in separate books.
As seen in a recordTitle page of a Catholic marriage register
Liber Matrimoniorum, Ecclesia S. Mariae
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