<P> Justin Martyr, Irenaeus and Tertullian all spoke against polygamy, condemning it . Tertullian explicitly tackled the objection that polygamy was allowed for the patriarchs . He wrote, "each pronouncement and arrangement is (the act) of one and the same God; who did then indeed, in the beginning, send forth a sowing of the race by an indulgent laxity granted to the reins of connubial alliances, until the world should be replenished, until the material of the new discipline should attain to forwardness: now, however, at the extreme boundaries of the times, has checked (the command) which He had sent out, and recalled the indulgence which He had granted". (De Monogamia chapt . VI .) According to chapter XVI of De Monogamia, Hermogenes thought it was allowed for a man to take several wives . Tertullian also made a direct attack on the polygamous practice of some cults in his work Adversus Hermogenem . This is the same Hermogenes mentioned above . Tertullian writes that he was a sect leader, who mixed Stoic, Gnostic and Christian views to create a new religion . </P> <P> The Church held a synod in Hertford, England, in 673 that was supervised by Archbishop Theodore . Chapter 10 issued by the synod declared that marriage is allowed between one man and one woman, and separation (but not divorce) is only granted in the case of adultery, but even then remarriage is not allowed . </P> <P> In the medieval period, multiple wives were often obtained through kidnapping . It is with this in view that we must interpret the following laws: The Frankish Laws of 818--9 strictly forbade kidnapping of women . The XXVII . law issued by King Stephen I of Hungary (1000--1030) declares that the kidnapper must return the woman to her parents even if he has had sexual intercourse with her, and must pay a penalty to the parents . According to the Hungarian law, the kidnapped girl was then free to marry whomever . </P> <P> The Roman councils of 1052 and 1063 suspended from communion those laymen who had a wife and a concubine at the same time . Divorce was also forbidden, and remarriage after a divorce counted as polygamy . Nicholas the Great (858--67) forbade Lothair II of Lotharingia to divorce his barren wife Teutberga and marry his concubine Waldrada, with whom he had several children . After a council of the Lotharingian bishops, as well as the archbishop of Köln and Trier had annulled his marriage to Theutberga, the pope voided this decision, and made him take his wife back . </P>

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