Let's be precise.
Rolfe was simply a gentleman, [not "a wealthy class of gentlemen"] and
according to Beverly he married up not down.
BTW is there any evidence of family influence in any of his three documented
marriages?
>probably under >ordinary circumstances he never would have been allowed to
>marry outside his class. But since Rebecca was a 'princess', that may have
>made a difference.
Philip Barbour, 1971 p. 162: "another tradition, apparently started in 1703
in Robert Beverly's History, says that King James was on the verge of
throwing John Rolfe in the Tower for marrying a royal princess without first
obtaining his permission.
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