The wills during the Middle Age were used as an important document where the husbands left written records specifying what was going to happen with their money after their death. Thanks to the wills a lot of widows during the medieval times were protected. “A husband who made his wife an executor, as many wives were, indicates that he not only trusted but that he trusted her capacity to understand the intricacies of his business dealing, debts owed to him and those he owed to others”(Women and Wills, p1). One example of wills in one of my previous post “Wife of Bath” where I talked about Allison a woman who got marriage five times which gave her the opportunity to inherit money from all of her husbands. However not all of the widows inherited money from their husbands, because there were some husbands that did not have money and for that reason they couldn’t leave anything to their wives.
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