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Another controversy surrounding Zwingli’s life is his marriage to Anna Reinhard. Reportedly, Zwingli married Reinhard, a widow of high standing in the community, in a secret marriage in 1522. Zwingli kept his marriage a secret from all but his closest friends until he married her publicly on April 2, 1524. Some have theorized that this was because priests were forbidden from marrying in his day and he was afraid of backlash from doing so. Others have not been quite so kind and even accuse him of living with her in an unmarried state from 1522-1524 in what was called a “clerical marriage.” Regardless of the particulars, theirs was seen as a good marriage which resulted in the birth of four children, adding to the three she brought into the marriage. Their names were Regula Zwingli, born July 13,1524; Wilhelm Zwingli, born January 29, 1526; Huldreich Zwingli, born Jan. 6, 1528 and Anna Zwingli, born May 4, 1530.
| For more on Anna Reinhard, see this extract from James I. Good's Famous Women of the Reformed Church reprinted in Leben: Leben, a journal of Reformed life
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