The 2nd point which it is similarly critical to bear in mind is that clerics in minimal orders were a incredibly various class in Saxon, Norman and Angevin moments. Hefele (Concilienge-schichte, V, 195) sees in this first trace of the principle that the marriages of the clerics are ipso facto invalid. In the 1st place, disabilities of all kinds were being enacted and as much as doable enforced towards the wives and kids of ecclesiastics. two.