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Sansa and Tyrion

posted 7 years ago by vivita (13)
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I'm confused...people are talking about Sansa getting married to Littlefinger (well as far as I know that is what he wants) or there is another theory that she will marry Jon Snow to rule the North, or maybe Robin Arryn.

But how is Sansa going to marry any of them or whoever if Tyrion is back in Westeros? Isn't she still his wife??? Cersei knows that Tyrion is now the Hand of Daenerys, so in short time Sansa will know that too, or at least Littlefinger.

I always wonder how her marriage to Ramsay took place in first place because it was not legal at all... I presume that everyone though that Tyrion was death..but now?

I think it is interesting to see what will happen now that the scenario is changing... Sansa being the wife of the hand of Daenerys maybe will help to seal an alliance between the North and Daenerys.

And I will love to hear Tyrion saying: "Sansa honey..know you realize that I wasn't that bad at all.."

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 7 years ago

I've wondered about this too. They left that thread kind of unresolved. I don't believe the marriage was ever annulled; when was there opportunity to annul it, and for what purpose when both Sansa and Tyrion were considered outlaws in King's Landing? Sansa's marriage to Tyrion was mentioned when Lysa was planning to marry her to Robin, and in that case Lysa said that Tyrion's execution would free her for the new betrothal. But Tyrion was never executed, and by the time Sansa was married to Ramsay, this legal issue seemed to have been completely forgotten. She couldn't have requested an annulment from the high septon (I assume that would be the procedure), because again, she was an outlaw as far as King's Landing was concerned, and they would have no dealings with her. So her marriage to Ramsay does seem to have been bigamy and therefore illegitimate.

I too wonder what will happen now when they encounter each other again.

[–] R_Kane (15828) 7 years ago

Is this world even concerned about bigamy? What do we know of their laws concerning marriage? There's a lot of wiggle room here. Here's another thought: the marriage between Tyrion and Sansa was never consummated. That constitutes grounds for annulment in our world.

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 7 years ago

Well it was mentioned when Lysa proposed to marry Sansa to Robin. It's been a while since I saw that episode, but it seems to me that Sansa mentioned her marriage to Tyrion, and Lysa said that Tyrion's death would free her for a new marriage. So bigamy is definitely a concept; if you're already married to someone, you evidently aren't supposed to marry someone else.

Their world is at least partly based on our world; George R. R. Martin took a lot of inspiration from real-world medieval history. Their culture, aside from the lack of a monotheistic religion, is broadly similar to real-world medieval Western culture. For instance, they don't seem to believe in polygamy. I remember wondering why Robb didn't just legalize polygamy in his kingdom so he could marry both Talisa and the Frey girl. Polygamy doesn't seem to be a concept there; monogamous marriage seems to be the rule.

Lack of consummation is definitely grounds for annulment, but that doesn't mean the annulment actually took place. It may yet, who knows.

[–] Jennie_Portrait (804) 7 years ago

Yes, the lack of consummation seemed to be a factor in their belief that Sansa could marry Ramsey. But what is interesting is that in this fantasy world, people have the right to legitimize a bastard. Witness how Ramsey's father legitimized him, making him his heir. (This couldn't happen in medieval England-- otherwise Henry VIII would have had many options to legitimize his many illegitimate offspring). In the case of the Ramsey-Sansa union, the most important thing was that she was a "Stark" and this carried enormous weight in the North.

[–] Otter (24464) 7 years ago

Honestly, with so much chaos going on and so many people declaring themselves kings, it's probably going to be a non-issue. Sansa and Tyrion are each in the pocket of their own new monarch now, they can get whatever they decide declared the law.

When the chaos is over and there's either one monarch in Westeros or seven kingdoms, basically, if they're both still alive Sansa and Tyrion can decide for themselves whether they want to declare their first unconsummated and therefore legally dubious marriage legal or invalid. Nobody else is going to care.