Who had 100 wives?

Abumbi II, the 11th fon, or king, of Bafut, Cameroon, has close to 100 wives. They weren't all his to start. According to local tradition, when a fon dies, his successor inherits all his wives and then marries his own queens.
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Who has more than 100 wives?

With heavy heart, Mizoram bid farewell to Mr. Zion-a (76), believed to head the world's largest family, with 38 wives and 89 children. Mizoram and his village at Baktawng Tlangnuam has become a major tourist attraction in the state because of the family. Rest in Peace Sir!
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Who has the most wives in history?

Perhaps the most well-known polygamist of all is the wise figure of King Solomon. He is believed to have had around 700 wives, and another 300 concubines, or mistresses.
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Which Indian king had 500 wives?

According to Diwan Jarmani Das, Maharaja Bhupinder Singh had 83 children from ten wives out of which only 53 were able to survive. The king had also built a 'swimming pool' outside the palace. The pool is so large that 150 men and women can take a bath together.
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Which king had many wives?

Henry VIII is best known for his six wives, and several mistresses he kept on the side. The monarch's desperate quest for political unification and a healthy male heir drove him to annul two marriages and have two wives beheaded.
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How many wives Mughal had?

Portraits of Sixteen wives of Mughal Emperors are shown; they are set in oval frames and arranged around an image of the Diwani Khas–the private audience hall in the Delhi Red Fort.
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Which God has only one wife?

As the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna shows both examples - as Krishna He has 16.108 wives and as Rama He has only one wife. Also Vishnu has only one wife.
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Does Hinduism allow multiple wives?

Thus polygamy became illegal in India in 1956, uniformly for all of its citizens except for Muslims, who are permitted to have four wives and for Hindus in Goa and along the western coast where bigamy is legal. A polygamous Hindu marriage is null and void.
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Which king married his own mother?

Oedipus, in Greek mythology, the king of Thebes who unwittingly killed his father and married his mother.
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Who has the most husbands in history?

Glynn Wolfe, also known as Scotty Wolfe (July 25, 1908 – June 10, 1997), was a Baptist minister who resided in Blythe, California. He was famous for holding the record for the largest number of monogamous marriages (31). His shortest marriage lasted 19 days, and his longest lasted eleven years.
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Why Kings had so many wives?

Several reasons. Infant mortality was much higher. So having more babies with more wives insured that you had surviving heirs. Having more wives was looked upon as a sign that you were wealthy and manly - you could afford to have a large family, and “take care” of many women.
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Can a man marry two wives legally?

Polygamy is illegal and criminalized in every country in North and South America, including all 50 U.S. states. However, in February 2020, the Utah House and Senate reduced the punishment for consensual polygamy, which had previously been classified as a felony, to roughly equivalent to a traffic ticket.
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How many wives Lord Krishna had?

Apart from his eight principal wives, Krishna is described to have married several thousand women, he rescued from the demon Narakasura.
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Who is the biggest family in India?

Ziona Chana had 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren - all of whom lived together in a four-storey pink house with about 100 rooms in Baktawng in Mizoram state.
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Who is the world's biggest family?

Mizoram-based Ziona Chana who had arguably “world's largest family' recently died, survived by his 39 wives, 89 children and 36 grandchildren.
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How many wives can Muslims have?

Muslim societies allow for up to four wives, but not without specific rules and regulations. In traveling throughout Egypt I had an opportunity to talk with many young women about their views on polygamous unions and their applicability to the modern world.
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Does Christianity allow polygamy?

The Catechism forbids polygamy as a grave offense against marriage and contrary to the original plan of God and equal dignity of human beings.
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Is polygamy legal in Japan?

Polygamy is illegal in Japan. Shibuya reportedly married some of the women but later divorced them. Media accounts have said many of the women worked to support Shibuya, who is unemployed, and that he had used a chant to attract them.
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How many wives did Shiva have?

Lord Shiva assumed the embodied form of these eleven manifestations and was allotted eleven wives for each of the forms, Dhi, Vritti, Ushana, Uma, Niyuta, Sarpis, Ila, Ambika, Iravati, Sudha and Dikshaa respectively.
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How many wives can you have in India?

Polygamy is illegal in India for every religion except for the Islam religion where limited polygyny up to four wives is permitted but polyandry is absolutely prohibited.
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Is Mughal family still alive?

Originally Answered: Where are the descendants of mughals today ? All are dead. Bahadur Shah's children were killed by the Britishers after the First War of Independence in 1857.
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How many wives Shah Jahan had?

Emperor Shah Jahan :: About Shah JahanSHAH JAHAN HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, CHILDHOOD, LIFE ACHIEVEMENTS & TIMELINE OF MUGHAL EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN. As a young man, he was married to two wives known as Akbarabadi Mahal (d. 1677 AD), and Kandahari Mahal (m.
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Did Moses have 2 wives?

Moses sends her and the children away before the Exodus from Egypt. Later, they reunite, but he may have taken a second wife, a "Cushite" or Ethiopian woman. Several mysteries in this tale leave experts baffled.
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