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for arranged marriage by her father.

I dont think we ever established that. I really think that arranged marriage was rare except in the upper classes, at least in northwest europe.

Marriages approved by the father, yes. Arranged, no. These are two different things.

According to some of those sources I quoted earlier, marriages that were not approved of might take place if the engaged were over a certain age, 21 I think. So approved marriages were encouraged, but not required. In Canterbury anyways.

Now you're understanding why I advance arranged marriage as a check and balance on rampant hypergamy, and that it isn't nearly as forceful in societies with high social values with established checks and balances on hypergamy that were only implemented because somewhere up the line the families consolidates the collapsed society with arranged marriages in the first place.