[Footnote 159: POLLOCK AND MAITLAND, _op. cit._, II, 391 n. 1. Read the interesting remarks of LECKY, _Democracy and Liberty_, II, 193-96, who cites, as illustrative of the policy of the Roman church, the divorce case of Napoleon and Josephine. See also _Law Review_ (English), I, 353-56.] [Footnote 160: Before Innocent III., 1215, who reduced the number to four: WOOLSEY, _Divorce_, 121.] [Footnote 161: THWING, _The Family_, 83. _Cf._ WOOLSEY, _op. cit._, 118 ff.] The marvelous resources of the church in the binding and unbinding of wedlock are strikingly exhibited in the matrimonial adventures of Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII. To enable her to marry King James IV. of Scotland a papal dispensation was requisite, as they were related within the fourth degree. After he was slain at the battle of Flodden (1513), Margaret espoused Archibald Douglas, sixth earl of Angus; and from him in 1527 she obtained by papal authority a divorce "on the desperate plea first brought forward in 1525, that James IV. had lived for three years after Flodden," and so was alive at the time of her second nuptials.[162] Her next experiment in the spiritual courts was less successful. In vain she tried to rid herself of her third consort, Henry Stuart, on the pretext that her previous cohabitation with her husband's fourth cousin, the earl of Angus, had created a bar to their marriage through affinity.[163] [Footnote 162: It is interesting to find Wolsey writing in Henry VIII.'s name "to remind her of the 'divine ordinance of inseparable matrimony first instituted in paradise,' protesting against 'the shameless sentence sent from Rome'": TAIT, in _Dict. of Nat. Biog._, XXXVI, 155.] [Footnote 163: Henry Stuart (Stewart) was made Lord Methven by Margaret's son, James V. She "attempted to get rid of that nobleman by a sentence of the ecclesiastical court, on the ground that before the marriage she had been (as the record expresses it) _carnaliter cognita_ by her husband's fourth cousin, the earl of Angus."--RIDDELL, _Scots' Peerage Law_, 187; _Law Review_, I, 354. On Margaret's marriages and divorces compare THWING, _The Family_, 83; WOOLSEY, _Divorce_, 169, who says she "got from Rome a separation from her second husband, the Earl of Angus, on the pretext of a pre-contract between him and another lady;" and especially the very accurate account of TAIT, in _Dict. of Nat. Biog._, XXXVI, 150-57.]