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* The page quote is provided from an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' that featured a case made more complicated by the fact that the murder involved neighboring families with engaged children with a very complex relationship. It turns out the engagement was a merger between impoverished patricians on the one hand and ''nouveau riche'' on the other.
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* ''Series/CrashLandingOnYou'' has a variation. The page quote is provided from an Ris are not nobility in the traditional sense, but instead a very high-ranking military family with a lot of clout (which may as well make them nobility in authoritarian North Korea). In episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' 6 it is explicitly stated that featured they are marrying Jeong-hyuk to Dan, a case made more complicated by the fact that the murder involved neighboring families with engaged children with a very complex relationship. It turns out the engagement was a merger between impoverished patricians on the one hand and ''nouveau riche'' on the other. department store heiress, for money.
* The page quote is provided from an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrder'' that featured a case made more complicated by the fact that the murder involved neighboring families with engaged children with a very complex relationship. It turns out the engagement was a merger between impoverished patricians on the one hand and ''nouveau riche'' on the other.
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* ''Series/CrashLandingOnYou'' has a variation. The Ris are not nobility in the traditional sense, but instead a very high-ranking military family with a lot of clout (which may as well make them nobility in authoritarian North Korea). In episode 6 it is explicitly stated that they are marrying Jeong-hyuk to Dan, a department store heiress, for money.
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* In ''Manga/TheSecretAgreement'', this is the idea behind the ''very'' sudden wedding between Iori and Hisayo. The well-respected Hanayashiki family arranges a marriage with the wealthy Yonekura family to restore their fortunes. The Hanayashikis are guaranteed financial security and the Yonekuras benefit from the Hanayashiki reputation. The groom stays for the ceremony but ends up running away that night, chasing after his lover. The remaining family members seem to get along, however, and still consider it a legitimate alliance.
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* In ''Manga/TheSecretAgreement'', this is the idea behind the ''very'' sudden wedding between Iori and Hisayo. The well-respected Hanayashiki family arranges a marriage with the wealthy Yonekura family to restore their fortunes. The Hanayashikis are guaranteed financial security and the Yonekuras benefit from the Hanayashiki reputation. The groom stays for the ceremony but ends up running away that night, chasing after his lover. The remaining family members seem to get along, however, and still consider it a legitimate alliance.
* The concept is relentlessly satirized in 18th Century British artist William Hogarth's ''Art/MarriageALaMode'', a series of paintings that tell the story of an ArrangedMarriage between the son of a [[ImpoverishedPatrician bankrupt Earl]] and the daughter of a [[NouveauRiche greedy businessman]]. The marriage is a disaster right from the start, with both partners quickly engaging in affairs with other people and generally neglecting each other and the crumbling state of their household. In the end, the husband is [[DuelToTheDeath killed in a duel]] against his wife's lover when he catches them in the act. The wife then [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] after both her husband has died and her lover has been executed for his murder.
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* The concept is relentlessly satirized in 18th Century British artist William Hogarth's ''Art/MarriageALaMode'', a series of paintings that tell the story of an ArrangedMarriage between the son of a [[ImpoverishedPatrician bankrupt Earl]] and the daughter of a [[NouveauRiche greedy businessman]]. The marriage is a disaster right from the start, with both partners quickly engaging in affairs with other people and generally neglecting each other and the crumbling state of their household. In the end, the husband is [[DuelToTheDeath killed in a duel]] against his wife's lover when he catches them in the act. The wife then [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] after both her husband has died and her lover has been executed for his murder.
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* In ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': The blue-blood girl Rose gets engaged to the millionaire Caledon, heir to an American steel tycoon. Rose's father got her family into debt, and their family name is their only real asset now. [[spoiler: After the whole Titanic "adventure" takes place and Rose loses her TrueLove, the poor artist Jack, she hides from Cal and disappears from his life, ultimately becoming a famous actress.]]
* ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'': Viola, a daughter of a wealthy merchant, marries Lord Wessex, who needs money.
* ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'': Viola, a daughter of a wealthy merchant, marries Lord Wessex, who needs money.
* ''Film/ShakespeareInLove'': Viola, a daughter of a wealthy merchant, marries Lord Wessex, who needs money.
* In ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': The blue-blood girl Rose gets engaged to the millionaire Caledon, heir to an American steel tycoon. Rose's father got her family into debt, and their family name is their only real asset now. [[spoiler: After the whole Titanic "adventure" takes place and Rose loses her TrueLove, the poor artist Jack, she hides from Cal and disappears from his life, ultimately becoming a famous actress.]]
* In ''Film/{{Titanic 1997}}'': The blue-blood girl Rose gets engaged to the millionaire Caledon, heir to an American steel tycoon. Rose's father got her family into debt, and their family name is their only real asset now. [[spoiler: After the whole Titanic "adventure" takes place and Rose loses her TrueLove, the poor artist Jack, she hides from Cal and disappears from his life, ultimately becoming a famous actress.]]
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* The novel ''Literature/TheBuccaneers'' by Edith Wharton (and the BBC mini-series based on it) revolves around five wealthy and ambitious American girls, their guardians and the titled, landed but impoverished Englishmen who marry them as the girls participate in the London Season in search of a titled English gentleman for matrimonial purposes.
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* A theme in Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'' in his Epic Fantasy ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** The Vale Houses are being increasingly forced into this, as their notorious snobbishness means many of them are having financial problems. ManipulativeBastard Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish is using his skill with money and connections to Gulltown merchants to set up marriage alliances between debt-consumed High Lords and wealthy merchants.
*** Lyonel Corbray is a prominent example. We hear that the only one of the Arryn branches aside from the main line that isn't impoverished are the Gulltown Arryns, due to their marrying merchants.
*** Littlefinger engaged his bastard niece Alayne Stone to Harrold Hardyng, a cousin to the Waynwoods and heir to the Eyrie through his mother's mother due to deaths in the main Arryn line (though Alayne is really Sansa Stark, heir to the North due to the (presumed) death of all her brothers).
** In the Westerlands, the Westerlings, an old and honorable but increasingly minor house, married into the Spicers, a relatively new house formed by a family of spice merchants. Because of this, the other Westerlands Houses look down on them.
* Creator/JaneAusten:
** ''Literature/{{Persuasion}}'':
*** Mr. William Elliot of the Kellynch family and a future baronet (Sir Walter's heir presumptive) married a low-born woman from a butcher's family who was vastly rich. He wanted to be independent and get wealthy quickly, and when he was young, he did not value the baronetcy and his Blue Blood connections a lot. His wife loved him very much, but he didn't love her at all. It's implied he treated her rather harshly, if not outright cruelly. Moreover, Mr Elliot doesn't mix with her family after her death, so they gained very little from this marriage while Mr Elliot was all take and no give.
*** Anne Elliot fell for Captain Wentworth before the start of the plot. Her friends and aristocratic family tell her to reject him because he's poor. A few years on, he's risen up through the ranks of the navy and made quite a lot of money, while Sir Walter Elliot is deep in debts. However, the marriage of Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot relies on their love, and he doesn't care much for her coming from Blue Blood and she doesn't really care about his great wealth beyond being happy that they can afford to get married and have a comfortable income.
** In ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', Willoughby marries Miss Gray. He's a gentleman (and a scoundrel) of the landed gentry with a mansion house called Combe Magna, and he will inherit another house from his childless kinswoman, Mrs. Smith. However, he lives extravagantly and is deep in debts. Miss Gray has a dowry of fifty thousand pounds, which makes her the wealthiest heiress in Creator/JaneAusten's 'verse. Her feelings for him are not entirely clear, but he was a fashionable, handsome man, and she wanted to get married so she could part with her guardians with whom she didn't get along. Willoughby claims he loves Marianne Dashwood, who is lovely, intelligent, and passionate, but poor as a church mouse; Miss Gray, being rather plain, is understandably jealous, but it's only Willoughby's words. They are not an ideal couple but the narrator says at the end of the book that they were not ''always'' unhappy together.
** The Vale Houses are being increasingly forced into this, as their notorious snobbishness means many of them are having financial problems. ManipulativeBastard Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish is using his skill with money and connections to Gulltown merchants to set up marriage alliances between debt-consumed High Lords and wealthy merchants.
*** Lyonel Corbray is a prominent example. We hear that the only one of the Arryn branches aside from the main line that isn't impoverished are the Gulltown Arryns, due to their marrying merchants.
*** Littlefinger engaged his bastard niece Alayne Stone to Harrold Hardyng, a cousin to the Waynwoods and heir to the Eyrie through his mother's mother due to deaths in the main Arryn line (though Alayne is really Sansa Stark, heir to the North due to the (presumed) death of all her brothers).
** In the Westerlands, the Westerlings, an old and honorable but increasingly minor house, married into the Spicers, a relatively new house formed by a family of spice merchants. Because of this, the other Westerlands Houses look down on them.
* Creator/JaneAusten:
** ''Literature/{{Persuasion}}'':
*** Mr. William Elliot of the Kellynch family and a future baronet (Sir Walter's heir presumptive) married a low-born woman from a butcher's family who was vastly rich. He wanted to be independent and get wealthy quickly, and when he was young, he did not value the baronetcy and his Blue Blood connections a lot. His wife loved him very much, but he didn't love her at all. It's implied he treated her rather harshly, if not outright cruelly. Moreover, Mr Elliot doesn't mix with her family after her death, so they gained very little from this marriage while Mr Elliot was all take and no give.
*** Anne Elliot fell for Captain Wentworth before the start of the plot. Her friends and aristocratic family tell her to reject him because he's poor. A few years on, he's risen up through the ranks of the navy and made quite a lot of money, while Sir Walter Elliot is deep in debts. However, the marriage of Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot relies on their love, and he doesn't care much for her coming from Blue Blood and she doesn't really care about his great wealth beyond being happy that they can afford to get married and have a comfortable income.
** In ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', Willoughby marries Miss Gray. He's a gentleman (and a scoundrel) of the landed gentry with a mansion house called Combe Magna, and he will inherit another house from his childless kinswoman, Mrs. Smith. However, he lives extravagantly and is deep in debts. Miss Gray has a dowry of fifty thousand pounds, which makes her the wealthiest heiress in Creator/JaneAusten's 'verse. Her feelings for him are not entirely clear, but he was a fashionable, handsome man, and she wanted to get married so she could part with her guardians with whom she didn't get along. Willoughby claims he loves Marianne Dashwood, who is lovely, intelligent, and passionate, but poor as a church mouse; Miss Gray, being rather plain, is understandably jealous, but it's only Willoughby's words. They are not an ideal couple but the narrator says at the end of the book that they were not ''always'' unhappy together.
* ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'': Calopodius and Anna - Anna's family is extremely blue-blooded but has fallen on hard times, while Calopodius's family is immensely wealthy but only has an illustrious pedigree due to the diligent efforts of scribes creating it from whole cloth. Becomes a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.
* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'':
** Cullen's mothers had a brother who ''was'' married off for money and status to the princesses' mothers -- and ended up killed as part of a political game, which Cullen's mothers have regretted since, one of them calling their late brother a sacrificial lamb. The Whistlers couldn't pay the price that Cullen normally would have gotten, but Cullen's eldest sister agrees to the price anyway, stating that she wants Cullen to be happy and doesn't want to bear the same regrets their mothers do.
** Played straight with the marriage offer of the Porters, who are nobility, but never married a royal prince, which they seek to amend by marrying a descendant of [[spoiler: Prince Alannon]], even though he may be poorer than they are. [[spoiler: It's also part of their political scheming. They already placed themselves in the line of succession of the monarchy and the wealth and titles that come with it by having their brother marry the Princesses, but marrying a descendant of a former prince would make their claim on the monarchy twofold if [[ShameIfSomethingHappened something were to happen]] to the Princesses -- a tragedy they just so happen to be planning.]]
* The novel ''Literature/TheBuccaneers'' by Edith Wharton (and the BBC mini-series based on it) revolves around five wealthy and ambitious American girls, their guardians and the titled, landed but impoverished Englishmen who marry them as the girls participate in the London Season in search of a titled English gentleman for matrimonial purposes.
* One of these was set up in the backstory of ''Literature/CounselorsAndKings'', in the form of the marriage arrangement between Keturah (a powerful wizardess and rising star in TheMagocracy of Halruaa who had nonetheless yet to accrue a significant fortune or powerbase) and Dhamari (a less talented wizard who was not considered nobility because he came from a family of {{Muggles}}, despite the fact that said family were very successful and wealthy merchants). [[spoiler: However, this was just a smokescreen for Dhamari and his ally, Kiva, to get a child of Keturah's who they could control]].
* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'':
** Cullen's mothers had a brother who ''was'' married off for money and status to the princesses' mothers -- and ended up killed as part of a political game, which Cullen's mothers have regretted since, one of them calling their late brother a sacrificial lamb. The Whistlers couldn't pay the price that Cullen normally would have gotten, but Cullen's eldest sister agrees to the price anyway, stating that she wants Cullen to be happy and doesn't want to bear the same regrets their mothers do.
** Played straight with the marriage offer of the Porters, who are nobility, but never married a royal prince, which they seek to amend by marrying a descendant of [[spoiler: Prince Alannon]], even though he may be poorer than they are. [[spoiler: It's also part of their political scheming. They already placed themselves in the line of succession of the monarchy and the wealth and titles that come with it by having their brother marry the Princesses, but marrying a descendant of a former prince would make their claim on the monarchy twofold if [[ShameIfSomethingHappened something were to happen]] to the Princesses -- a tragedy they just so happen to be planning.]]
* The novel ''Literature/TheBuccaneers'' by Edith Wharton (and the BBC mini-series based on it) revolves around five wealthy and ambitious American girls, their guardians and the titled, landed but impoverished Englishmen who marry them as the girls participate in the London Season in search of a titled English gentleman for matrimonial purposes.
* One of these was set up in the backstory of ''Literature/CounselorsAndKings'', in the form of the marriage arrangement between Keturah (a powerful wizardess and rising star in TheMagocracy of Halruaa who had nonetheless yet to accrue a significant fortune or powerbase) and Dhamari (a less talented wizard who was not considered nobility because he came from a family of {{Muggles}}, despite the fact that said family were very successful and wealthy merchants). [[spoiler: However, this was just a smokescreen for Dhamari and his ally, Kiva, to get a child of Keturah's who they could control]].
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* In ''Literature/TheLeopard'' Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian Prince, arranges a marriage for his nephew, an [[ImpoverishedPatrician impoverished princeling]] with the daughter of a NouveauRiche (whose father was one of his peasants). Fortunately the betrothed are besotted with each other, and the practical advantages of the marriage are a great element of their infatuation.
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* In ''Literature/TheLeopard'' Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian Prince, arranges a A theme in Creator/GeorgeRRMartin's ''Literature/AFeastForCrows'' in his Epic Fantasy ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** The Vale Houses are being increasingly forced into this, as their notorious snobbishness means many of them are having financial problems. ManipulativeBastard Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish is using his skill with money and connections to Gulltown merchants to set up marriage alliances between debt-consumed High Lords and wealthy merchants.
*** Lyonel Corbray is a prominent example. We hear that the only one of the Arryn branches aside from the main line that isn't impoverished are the Gulltown Arryns, due to their marrying merchants.
*** Littlefinger engaged his bastard niece Alayne Stone to Harrold Hardyng, a cousin to the Waynwoods and heir to the Eyrie through his mother's mother due to deaths in the main Arryn line (though Alayne is really Sansa Stark, heir to the North due to the (presumed) death of all her brothers).
** In the Westerlands, the Westerlings, an old and honorable but increasingly minor house, married into the Spicers, a relatively new house formed by a family of spice merchants. Because of this, the other Westerlands Houses look down on them.
* The first ''Literature/{{Flashman}}'' book averts this, then fulfills it. Harry Flashman is first shown as a well-to-do member of the gentry who is forced to marry a Scottish merchant's daughter who he seduced for her beauty, not money. Later on, hisnephew, an father reveals he has squandered what is left of the family fortune, leaving Harry totally dependent on his wife's money. In a later book, he refers to her as a 'Scotch pension", a Victorian expression referring to this trope.
* ''Literature/TheFrenchLieutenantsWoman'': Ernestina Freeman is the only daughter of a rich industrialist and fabulously wealthy. She's engaged to Charles Smithson who is from aristocratic circles. He's not poor though and actually a future heir to his uncle's house and title. Ernestina chooses Charles and cleverly manages to attract him, and he proposes. Turns out Charles' uncle marries and has a son of his own, so Charles is left much poorer than presumed. He's now expected to "deserve" Ernestina's dowry and correctly assumes Mr Freeman will want him to be involved in the family business. Charles doesn't show it, but his gentleman's honour is insulted. In the ending that turns out to be Charles' imagination, Charles expects that his resentment will gradually vanish and that he'll find his new responsibilities interesting. Their marriage is supposed to be this trope as well as marrying for love. In reality, Charles breaks the engagement off, mainly because of his infatuation and relationship with Sarah, the titular French lieutenant's woman.
* Eodar of ''Literature/GloryInTheThunder'' turned down his one chance to marry into money. He pressures his daughter not to make the same mistake.
* In the backstory to ''Literature/HarryPotter'', [[ImpoverishedPatrician impoverishedprinceling]] pureblood witch]] Merope Gaunt left her degenerate family to marry a wealthy {{Muggle|s}}, Tom Riddle Senior, whom she'd drugged with a LovePotion. This...didn't work out. Her husband abandoned her once she stopped doping him, so she quickly ended up destitute and alone, and her remaining relatives never saw any of the daughter Riddle family's wealth either. Ultimately, instead of a NouveauRiche (whose father was rejuvenating the Gaunt family's wealth, marrying outside BlueBlood rejuvenated their ''bloodline'', allowing their son to become one of the most powerful wizards of all time instead of being pathetically inbred. Unfortunately, this son turned out to be Tom Riddle Junior, also known as [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]]. He was at least as depraved as his peasants). Fortunately the betrothed are besotted with each other, ancestors for three reasons -- because of his family's prior mental illness due to [[InbredAndEvil inbreeding]], because he grew up in a loveless orphanage after Merope [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to him]], and the practical advantages (possibly) because being conceived through use of the marriage are a great element LovePotion [[TheSociopath left him unable to feel love naturally]]. Voldemort also developed ideas on [[FantasticCasteSystem pureblood supremacism]] akin to his maternal family's attitudes [[BoomerangBigot despite being a half-blood]], apparently unaware of their infatuation.how his Muggle parentage [[HybridPower benefitted him]].
** The Vale Houses are being increasingly forced into this, as their notorious snobbishness means many of them are having financial problems. ManipulativeBastard Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish is using his skill with money and connections to Gulltown merchants to set up marriage alliances between debt-consumed High Lords and wealthy merchants.
*** Lyonel Corbray is a prominent example. We hear that the only one of the Arryn branches aside from the main line that isn't impoverished are the Gulltown Arryns, due to their marrying merchants.
*** Littlefinger engaged his bastard niece Alayne Stone to Harrold Hardyng, a cousin to the Waynwoods and heir to the Eyrie through his mother's mother due to deaths in the main Arryn line (though Alayne is really Sansa Stark, heir to the North due to the (presumed) death of all her brothers).
** In the Westerlands, the Westerlings, an old and honorable but increasingly minor house, married into the Spicers, a relatively new house formed by a family of spice merchants. Because of this, the other Westerlands Houses look down on them.
* The first ''Literature/{{Flashman}}'' book averts this, then fulfills it. Harry Flashman is first shown as a well-to-do member of the gentry who is forced to marry a Scottish merchant's daughter who he seduced for her beauty, not money. Later on, his
* ''Literature/TheFrenchLieutenantsWoman'': Ernestina Freeman is the only daughter of a rich industrialist and fabulously wealthy. She's engaged to Charles Smithson who is from aristocratic circles. He's not poor though and actually a future heir to his uncle's house and title. Ernestina chooses Charles and cleverly manages to attract him, and he proposes. Turns out Charles' uncle marries and has a son of his own, so Charles is left much poorer than presumed. He's now expected to "deserve" Ernestina's dowry and correctly assumes Mr Freeman will want him to be involved in the family business. Charles doesn't show it, but his gentleman's honour is insulted. In the ending that turns out to be Charles' imagination, Charles expects that his resentment will gradually vanish and that he'll find his new responsibilities interesting. Their marriage is supposed to be this trope as well as marrying for love. In reality, Charles breaks the engagement off, mainly because of his infatuation and relationship with Sarah, the titular French lieutenant's woman.
* Eodar of ''Literature/GloryInTheThunder'' turned down his one chance to marry into money. He pressures his daughter not to make the same mistake.
* In the backstory to ''Literature/HarryPotter'', [[ImpoverishedPatrician impoverished
* ''Literature/HolmesOnTheRange:'' In the first book, Lady Clara is the daughter of an ImpoverishedPatrician and is viewed as being DefiledForever by British society for her past romance with her father's secretary. SocialClimber George Edwards (the son of a successful but despised SnakeOilSalesman) is willing to overlook her past (and pay her father's debts) if marrying her will get him accepted into high society. [[spoiler:Clara is already secretly married, and commits suicide after being exposed as one of the book's villains.]]
* ''Literature/JaneEyre'': The expected match between Miss Rosamond Oliver and St. John Rivers is supposed to be Nobility Marries Money as well as a marriage based on mutual love and affection. Miss Oliver is an heiress, the only child of Mr. Oliver who is the proprietor of a needle-factory and iron foundry. St. John Rivers is a clergyman and Impoverished Patrician. Jane the narrator notes that Mr Oliver considered his good birth, old name, and respectable profession as sufficient compensation for the want of fortune. However, St. John aspires to be a missionary and he sacrifices love and domestic happiness for his lofty dream.
* In ''Literature/TheLeopard'' Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian Prince, arranges a marriage for his nephew, an [[ImpoverishedPatrician impoverished princeling]] with the daughter of a NouveauRiche (whose father was one of his peasants). Fortunately the betrothed are besotted with each other, and the practical advantages of the marriage are a great element of their infatuation.
* ''Literature/MastersOfRome'': The marriage of Gaius Marius to Julia, aunt of Gaius Julius Caesar, is a classic example. The Caesars are impoverished nobility with just enough means to maintain a decent lifestyle and Marius is a very wealthy 'New Man' who desperately needs some political clout. In all justice to Julia's father he likes and admires Marius as a man and believes he will be a good husband. Also the proposed bride and groom fancy each other from the start making it a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.
* ''Literature/JaneEyre'': The expected match between Miss Rosamond Oliver and St. John Rivers is supposed to be Nobility Marries Money as well as a marriage based on mutual love and affection. Miss Oliver is an heiress, the only child of Mr. Oliver who is the proprietor of a needle-factory and iron foundry. St. John Rivers is a clergyman and Impoverished Patrician. Jane the narrator notes that Mr Oliver considered his good birth, old name, and respectable profession as sufficient compensation for the want of fortune. However, St. John aspires to be a missionary and he sacrifices love and domestic happiness for his lofty dream.
* In ''Literature/TheLeopard'' Don Fabrizio, a Sicilian Prince, arranges a marriage for his nephew, an [[ImpoverishedPatrician impoverished princeling]] with the daughter of a NouveauRiche (whose father was one of his peasants). Fortunately the betrothed are besotted with each other, and the practical advantages of the marriage are a great element of their infatuation.
* ''Literature/MastersOfRome'': The marriage of Gaius Marius to Julia, aunt of Gaius Julius Caesar, is a classic example. The Caesars are impoverished nobility with just enough means to maintain a decent lifestyle and Marius is a very wealthy 'New Man' who desperately needs some political clout. In all justice to Julia's father he likes and admires Marius as a man and believes he will be a good husband. Also the proposed bride and groom fancy each other from the start making it a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.
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* Eodar ''Literature/{{Persuasion}}'':
** Mr. William Elliot of''Literature/GloryInTheThunder'' turned down the Kellynch family and a future baronet (Sir Walter's heir presumptive) married a low-born woman from a butcher's family who was vastly rich. He wanted to be independent and get wealthy quickly, and when he was young, he did not value the baronetcy and his one chance Blue Blood connections a lot. His wife loved him very much, but he didn't love her at all. It's implied he treated her rather harshly, if not outright cruelly. Moreover, Mr Elliot doesn't mix with her family after her death, so they gained very little from this marriage while Mr Elliot was all take and no give.
** Anne Elliot fell for Captain Wentworth before the start of the plot. Her friends and aristocratic family tell her tomarry into money. He pressures reject him because he's poor. A few years on, he's risen up through the ranks of the navy and made quite a lot of money, while Sir Walter Elliot is deep in debts. However, the marriage of Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot relies on their love, and he doesn't care much for her coming from Blue Blood and she doesn't really care about his daughter great wealth beyond being happy that they can afford to get married and have a comfortable income.
* In ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', Willoughby marries Miss Gray. He's a gentleman (and a scoundrel) of the landed gentry with a mansion house called Combe Magna, and he will inherit another house from his childless kinswoman, Mrs. Smith. However, he lives extravagantly and is deep in debts. Miss Gray has a dowry of fifty thousand pounds, which makes her the wealthiest heiress in Creator/JaneAusten's 'verse. Her feelings for him are not entirely clear, but he was a fashionable, handsome man, and she wanted tomake get married so she could part with her guardians with whom she didn't get along. Willoughby claims he loves Marianne Dashwood, who is lovely, intelligent, and passionate, but poor as a church mouse; Miss Gray, being rather plain, is understandably jealous, but it's only Willoughby's words. They are not an ideal couple but the same mistake.narrator says at the end of the book that they were not ''always'' unhappy together.
* In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story ''The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,'' this is the background of the mystery. Lord Robert St. Simon is a London aristocrat who married a wealthy American woman, Hatty Doran. [[spoiler:Whose previous husband was NotQuiteDead]].
** Mr. William Elliot of
** Anne Elliot fell for Captain Wentworth before the start of the plot. Her friends and aristocratic family tell her to
* In ''Literature/SenseAndSensibility'', Willoughby marries Miss Gray. He's a gentleman (and a scoundrel) of the landed gentry with a mansion house called Combe Magna, and he will inherit another house from his childless kinswoman, Mrs. Smith. However, he lives extravagantly and is deep in debts. Miss Gray has a dowry of fifty thousand pounds, which makes her the wealthiest heiress in Creator/JaneAusten's 'verse. Her feelings for him are not entirely clear, but he was a fashionable, handsome man, and she wanted to
* In the ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' story ''The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,'' this is the background of the mystery. Lord Robert St. Simon is a London aristocrat who married a wealthy American woman, Hatty Doran. [[spoiler:Whose previous husband was NotQuiteDead]].
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* ''Literature/MastersOfRome'': The marriage of Gaius Marius to Julia, aunt of Gaius Julius Caesar, is a classic example. The Caesars are impoverished nobility with just enough means to maintain a decent lifestyle and Marius is a very wealthy 'New Man' who desperately needs some political clout. In all justice to Julia's father he likes and admires Marius as a man and believes he will be a good husband. Also the proposed bride and groom fancy each other from the start making it a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.
* One of these was set up in the backstory of ''Literature/CounselorsAndKings'', in the form of the marriage arrangement between Keturah (a powerful wizardess and rising star in TheMagocracy of Halruaa who had nonetheless yet to accrue a significant fortune or powerbase) and Dhamari (a less talented wizard who was not considered nobility because he came from a family of {{Muggles}}, despite the fact that said family were very successful and wealthy merchants). [[spoiler: However, this was just a smokescreen for Dhamari and his ally, Kiva, to get a child of Keturah's who they could control]].
* One of these was set up in the backstory of ''Literature/CounselorsAndKings'', in the form of the marriage arrangement between Keturah (a powerful wizardess and rising star in TheMagocracy of Halruaa who had nonetheless yet to accrue a significant fortune or powerbase) and Dhamari (a less talented wizard who was not considered nobility because he came from a family of {{Muggles}}, despite the fact that said family were very successful and wealthy merchants). [[spoiler: However, this was just a smokescreen for Dhamari and his ally, Kiva, to get a child of Keturah's who they could control]].
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* ''Literature/MastersOfRome'': The marriage In ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfSatan'', the Earl of Gaius Marius Elton is waiting for his wife to Julia, aunt die so he can marry the 20-year-old American heiress, Diana Chesney, despite her being the same age as his daughter, so he can pay off his many debts.
* ''Star ofGaius Julius Caesar, is a classic example. The Caesars are impoverished nobility with just enough means to maintain a decent lifestyle Deltora'', the latest ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' SequelSeries, introduces the Collectors of Illica, who have long ago sunk their fortunes into vast collections of rare and Marius valuable artifacts. Their MO is a very to marry their children off to wealthy 'New Man' who desperately needs some political clout. In all justice to Julia's father he likes and admires Marius as a man and believes he will be a good husband. Also the proposed bride and groom fancy each other from the start making it a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.
* One of these was set upforeigners, then drain their new in-laws dry in the backstory of ''Literature/CounselorsAndKings'', in the form service of the marriage arrangement between Keturah (a powerful wizardess and rising star in TheMagocracy of Halruaa who had nonetheless yet to accrue a significant fortune or powerbase) and Dhamari (a less talented wizard who was not considered nobility because he came from a family of {{Muggles}}, despite the fact that said family were very successful and wealthy merchants). [[spoiler: However, this was just a smokescreen for Dhamari and his ally, Kiva, to get a child of Keturah's who they could control]]. Collections.
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* In the backstory to ''Literature/HarryPotter'', [[ImpoverishedPatrician impoverished pureblood witch]] Merope Gaunt left her degenerate family to marry a wealthy {{Muggle|s}}, Tom Riddle Senior, whom she'd drugged with a LovePotion. This...didn't work out. Her husband abandoned her once she stopped doping him, so she quickly ended up destitute and alone, and her remaining relatives never saw any of the Riddle family's wealth either. Ultimately, instead of rejuvenating the Gaunt family's wealth, marrying outside BlueBlood rejuvenated their ''bloodline'', allowing their son to become one of the most powerful wizards of all time instead of being pathetically inbred. Unfortunately, this son turned out to be Tom Riddle Junior, also known as [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]]. He was at least as depraved as his ancestors for three reasons -- because of his family's prior mental illness due to [[InbredAndEvil inbreeding]], because he grew up in a loveless orphanage after Merope [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to him]], and (possibly) because being conceived through use of a LovePotion [[TheSociopath left him unable to feel love naturally]]. Voldemort also developed ideas on [[FantasticCasteSystem pureblood supremacism]] akin to his maternal family's attitudes [[BoomerangBigot despite being a half-blood]], apparently unaware of how his Muggle parentage [[HybridPower benefitted him]].
* In the Literature/SherlockHolmes story ''The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,'' this is the background of the mystery. Lord Robert St. Simon is a London aristocrat who married a wealthy American woman, Hatty Doran. [[spoiler:Whose previous husband was NotQuiteDead]].
* The first ''Literature/{{Flashman}}'' book averts this, then fulfills it. Harry Flashman is first shown as a well-to-do member of the gentry who is forced to marry a Scottish merchant's daughter who he seduced for her beauty, not money. Later on, his father reveals he has squandered what is left of the family fortune, leaving Harry totally dependent on his wife's money. In a later book, he refers to her as a 'Scotch pension", a Victorian expression referring to this trope.
* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'':
** Cullen's mothers had a brother who ''was'' married off for money and status to the princesses' mothers -- and ended up killed as part of a political game, which Cullen's mothers have regretted since, one of them calling their late brother a sacrificial lamb. The Whistlers couldn't pay the price that Cullen normally would have gotten, but Cullen's eldest sister agrees to the price anyway, stating that she wants Cullen to be happy and doesn't want to bear the same regrets their mothers do.
** Played straight with the marriage offer of the Porters, who are nobility, but never married a royal prince, which they seek to amend by marrying a descendant of [[spoiler: Prince Alannon]], even though he may be poorer than they are. [[spoiler: It's also part of their political scheming. They already placed themselves in the line of succession of the monarchy and the wealth and titles that come with it by having their brother marry the Princesses, but marrying a descendant of a former prince would make their claim on the monarchy twofold if [[ShameIfSomethingHappened something were to happen]] to the Princesses -- a tragedy they just so happen to be planning.]]
* ''Literature/TheFrenchLieutenantsWoman'': Ernestina Freeman is the only daughter of a rich industrialist and fabulously wealthy. She's engaged to Charles Smithson who is from aristocratic circles. He's not poor though and actually a future heir to his uncle's house and title. Ernestina chooses Charles and cleverly manages to attract him, and he proposes. Turns out Charles' uncle marries and has a son of his own, so Charles is left much poorer than presumed. He's now expected to "deserve" Ernestina's dowry and correctly assumes Mr Freeman will want him to be involved in the family business. Charles doesn't show it, but his gentleman's honour is insulted. In the ending that turns out to be Charles' imagination, Charles expects that his resentment will gradually vanish and that he'll find his new responsibilities interesting. Their marriage is supposed to be this trope as well as marrying for love. In reality, Charles breaks the engagement off, mainly because of his infatuation and relationship with Sarah, the titular French lieutenant's woman.
* ''Literature/HolmesOnTheRange:'' In the first book, Lady Clara is the daughter of an ImpoverishedPatrician and is viewed as being DefiledForever by British society for her past romance with her father's secretary. SocialClimber George Edwards (the son of a successful but despised SnakeOilSalesman) is willing to overlook her past (and pay her father's debts) if marrying her will get him accepted into high society. [[spoiler:Clara is already secretly married, and commits suicide after being exposed as one of the book's villains.]]
* ''Literature/JaneEyre'': The expected match between Miss Rosamond Oliver and St. John Rivers is supposed to be Nobility Marries Money as well as a marriage based on mutual love and affection. Miss Oliver is an heiress, the only child of Mr. Oliver who is the proprietor of a needle-factory and iron foundry. St. John Rivers is a clergyman and Impoverished Patrician. Jane the narrator notes that Mr Oliver considered his good birth, old name, and respectable profession as sufficient compensation for the want of fortune. However, St. John aspires to be a missionary and he sacrifices love and domestic happiness for his lofty dream.
* ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'': Calopodius and Anna - Anna's family is extremely blue-blooded but has fallen on hard times, while Calopodius's family is immensely wealthy but only has an illustrious pedigree due to the diligent efforts of scribes creating it from whole cloth. Becomes a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.
* In the Literature/SherlockHolmes story ''The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor,'' this is the background of the mystery. Lord Robert St. Simon is a London aristocrat who married a wealthy American woman, Hatty Doran. [[spoiler:Whose previous husband was NotQuiteDead]].
* The first ''Literature/{{Flashman}}'' book averts this, then fulfills it. Harry Flashman is first shown as a well-to-do member of the gentry who is forced to marry a Scottish merchant's daughter who he seduced for her beauty, not money. Later on, his father reveals he has squandered what is left of the family fortune, leaving Harry totally dependent on his wife's money. In a later book, he refers to her as a 'Scotch pension", a Victorian expression referring to this trope.
* ''Literature/ABrothersPrice'':
** Cullen's mothers had a brother who ''was'' married off for money and status to the princesses' mothers -- and ended up killed as part of a political game, which Cullen's mothers have regretted since, one of them calling their late brother a sacrificial lamb. The Whistlers couldn't pay the price that Cullen normally would have gotten, but Cullen's eldest sister agrees to the price anyway, stating that she wants Cullen to be happy and doesn't want to bear the same regrets their mothers do.
** Played straight with the marriage offer of the Porters, who are nobility, but never married a royal prince, which they seek to amend by marrying a descendant of [[spoiler: Prince Alannon]], even though he may be poorer than they are. [[spoiler: It's also part of their political scheming. They already placed themselves in the line of succession of the monarchy and the wealth and titles that come with it by having their brother marry the Princesses, but marrying a descendant of a former prince would make their claim on the monarchy twofold if [[ShameIfSomethingHappened something were to happen]] to the Princesses -- a tragedy they just so happen to be planning.]]
* ''Literature/TheFrenchLieutenantsWoman'': Ernestina Freeman is the only daughter of a rich industrialist and fabulously wealthy. She's engaged to Charles Smithson who is from aristocratic circles. He's not poor though and actually a future heir to his uncle's house and title. Ernestina chooses Charles and cleverly manages to attract him, and he proposes. Turns out Charles' uncle marries and has a son of his own, so Charles is left much poorer than presumed. He's now expected to "deserve" Ernestina's dowry and correctly assumes Mr Freeman will want him to be involved in the family business. Charles doesn't show it, but his gentleman's honour is insulted. In the ending that turns out to be Charles' imagination, Charles expects that his resentment will gradually vanish and that he'll find his new responsibilities interesting. Their marriage is supposed to be this trope as well as marrying for love. In reality, Charles breaks the engagement off, mainly because of his infatuation and relationship with Sarah, the titular French lieutenant's woman.
* ''Literature/HolmesOnTheRange:'' In the first book, Lady Clara is the daughter of an ImpoverishedPatrician and is viewed as being DefiledForever by British society for her past romance with her father's secretary. SocialClimber George Edwards (the son of a successful but despised SnakeOilSalesman) is willing to overlook her past (and pay her father's debts) if marrying her will get him accepted into high society. [[spoiler:Clara is already secretly married, and commits suicide after being exposed as one of the book's villains.]]
* ''Literature/JaneEyre'': The expected match between Miss Rosamond Oliver and St. John Rivers is supposed to be Nobility Marries Money as well as a marriage based on mutual love and affection. Miss Oliver is an heiress, the only child of Mr. Oliver who is the proprietor of a needle-factory and iron foundry. St. John Rivers is a clergyman and Impoverished Patrician. Jane the narrator notes that Mr Oliver considered his good birth, old name, and respectable profession as sufficient compensation for the want of fortune. However, St. John aspires to be a missionary and he sacrifices love and domestic happiness for his lofty dream.
* ''Literature/BelisariusSeries'': Calopodius and Anna - Anna's family is extremely blue-blooded but has fallen on hard times, while Calopodius's family is immensely wealthy but only has an illustrious pedigree due to the diligent efforts of scribes creating it from whole cloth. Becomes a PerfectlyArrangedMarriage.
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* ''Star of Deltora'', the latest ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' SequelSeries, introduces the Collectors of Illica, who have long ago sunk their fortunes into vast collections of rare and valuable artifacts. Their MO is to marry their children off to wealthy foreigners, then drain their new in-laws dry in service of the Collections.
* In ''[[Literature/MastersOfRome The First Man In Rome]]'', the marriage between Gaius Marius and Julia Caesaris Major is this. The Julii Caesar are an ImpoverishedPatrician family who need money to ensure their sons can become senators and their daughters can have sizable dowries to make decent marriages. Marius, on the other hand, is very wealthy but his plebeian status means he can only go so far in the patrician-dominated senate. In exchange for bankrolling his brothers-in-law's political careers and sister-in-law's dowry, Marius would gain a a patrician wife and through her, acceptance in the highest levels of politics. [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage Julia and Marius fell in love immediately, though, so it all worked out]].
* In ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfSatan'', the Earl of Elton is waiting for his wife to die so he can marry the 20-year-old American heiress, Diana Chesney, despite her being the same age as his daughter, so he can pay off his many debts.
* In ''[[Literature/MastersOfRome The First Man In Rome]]'', the marriage between Gaius Marius and Julia Caesaris Major is this. The Julii Caesar are an ImpoverishedPatrician family who need money to ensure their sons can become senators and their daughters can have sizable dowries to make decent marriages. Marius, on the other hand, is very wealthy but his plebeian status means he can only go so far in the patrician-dominated senate. In exchange for bankrolling his brothers-in-law's political careers and sister-in-law's dowry, Marius would gain a a patrician wife and through her, acceptance in the highest levels of politics. [[PerfectlyArrangedMarriage Julia and Marius fell in love immediately, though, so it all worked out]].
* In ''Literature/TheSorrowsOfSatan'', the Earl of Elton is waiting for his wife to die so he can marry the 20-year-old American heiress, Diana Chesney, despite her being the same age as his daughter, so he can pay off his many debts.
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* ''Series/FatherBrown'': In "[[Recap/FatherBrownS5E2 The Labyrinth Of The Minotaur]]", Lady Malmort is trying to hook her son up with the daughter of a wealthy financier, despite them being "common as muck."
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** Just to start with, it forms the backstory of the show. Lord Grantham went to New York to find his bride; he found Cora Levinson, daughter of a dry-goods magnate from [[UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}} Cincinnati]]. A significant fraction of the first season's drama comes from the fact that, at the old Earl's insistence, Cora's money was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entail entailed]] to the estate - i.e. it can't be separated from the land and title. 30 years later, they only have daughters (outside a few ancient, mostly Scottish oddities, British noble titles are very strictly part of the HeirClubForMen), and thus the family is very anxious about what will happen to the daughters.[[note]]Irony of ironies, entail [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Property_Act_1925 would be abolished thirteen years later]].[[/note]] Fortunately for Robert and Cora, though, they ended up falling (and, somewhat more remarkably, ''staying'') deeply in love with each other after the wedding (well, ''he'' did; she loved him already).
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** Just to start with, it forms the backstory of the show. Lord Grantham went to New York to find his bride; he found Cora Levinson, daughter of a dry-goods magnate from [[UsefulNotes/{{Ohio}} Cincinnati]]. A significant fraction of the first season's drama comes from the fact that, at the old Earl's insistence, Cora's money was [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entail entailed]] to the estate - i.e. it can't be separated from the land and title. 30 years later, they only have daughters (outside a few ancient, mostly Scottish oddities, British noble titles are very strictly part of the HeirClubForMen), and thus the family is very anxious about what will happen to the daughters.[[note]]Irony of ironies, entail [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Property_Act_1925 would be abolished thirteen years later]].[[/note]] Fortunately for Robert and Cora, though, they ended up falling (and, somewhat more remarkably, ''staying'') deeply in love with each other after the wedding (well, ''he'' did; she loved him already).
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* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The driving force behind the arranged marriage between Mark Wellington and Kitty Shearer. The Wellingtons are aristocrats with very little wealth left, whereas the Shearers own an extremely successful business empire. Deconstructed when [[spoiler:Kitty's father opposes it knowing that the Wellingtons were terrible with money and he doesn't want Mark to financially ruin him as well.]]
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* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The driving force behind the arranged marriage between Mark Wellington and Kitty Shearer. The Wellingtons are aristocrats with very little wealth left, whereas the Shearers own an extremely successful business empire. Deconstructed when [[spoiler:Kitty's father opposes it knowing that because the Wellingtons were terrible with money and he doesn't want Kitty's future husband will have to manage the Shearer estate in his passing. He refuses to allow Mark to financially ruin him as well.into the family, saying that his business comes first.]]
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* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The driving force behind the arranged marriage between Mark Wellington and Kitty Shearer. The Wellingtons are aristocrats with very little wealth left, whereas the Shearers own an extremely successful business empire. Mark doesn't want this, but good luck telling his father that. It is actually deconstructed later, [[spoiler:as Kitty's father opposes it knowing that the Wellingtons are terrible with money and he doesn't want Mark to finanially ruin him as well.
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* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The driving force behind the arranged marriage between Mark Wellington and Kitty Shearer. The Wellingtons are aristocrats with very little wealth left, whereas the Shearers own an extremely successful business empire. Mark doesn't want this, but good luck telling his father that. It is actually deconstructed later, [[spoiler:as Kitty's Deconstructed when [[spoiler:Kitty's father opposes it knowing that the Wellingtons are were terrible with money and he doesn't want Mark to finanially financially ruin him as well.]]
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* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The driving force behind the arranged marriage between Mark Wellington and Kitty Shearer. The Wellingtons are aristocrats with very little wealth left, whereas the Shearers own an extremely successful business empire. Mark doesn't want this, but good luck telling his father that.
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* ''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The driving force behind the arranged marriage between Mark Wellington and Kitty Shearer. The Wellingtons are aristocrats with very little wealth left, whereas the Shearers own an extremely successful business empire. Mark doesn't want this, but good luck telling his father that. It is actually deconstructed later, [[spoiler:as Kitty's father opposes it knowing that the Wellingtons are terrible with money and he doesn't want Mark to finanially ruin him as well.
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* In the backstory to ''Literature/HarryPotter'', [[ImpoverishedPatrician impoverished pureblood witch]] Merope Gaunt left her degenerate family to marry a wealthy {{Muggle|s}}, Tom Riddle Senior, whom she'd drugged with a LovePotion. This...didn't work out. Her husband abandoned her once she stopped doping him, so she quickly ended up destitute and alone, and her remaining relatives never saw any of the Riddle family's wealth either. Ultimately, instead of rejuvenating the Gaunt family's wealth, marrying outside BlueBlood rejuvenated their ''bloodline'', allowing their son to become one of the most powerful wizards of all time instead of being pathetically inbred. Unfortunately, this son turned out to be Tom Riddle Junior, also known as [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]]. He was at least as depraved as his ancestors -- both because of his family's prior mental illness due to [[InbredAndEvil inbreeding]], and because he grew up in a loveless orphanage after Merope [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to him]]. Voldemort also developed ideas on [[FantasticCasteSystem pureblood supremacism]] akin to his maternal family's attitudes, apparently unaware of how his Muggle parentage [[HybridPower benefited him]].
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* In the backstory to ''Literature/HarryPotter'', [[ImpoverishedPatrician impoverished pureblood witch]] Merope Gaunt left her degenerate family to marry a wealthy {{Muggle|s}}, Tom Riddle Senior, whom she'd drugged with a LovePotion. This...didn't work out. Her husband abandoned her once she stopped doping him, so she quickly ended up destitute and alone, and her remaining relatives never saw any of the Riddle family's wealth either. Ultimately, instead of rejuvenating the Gaunt family's wealth, marrying outside BlueBlood rejuvenated their ''bloodline'', allowing their son to become one of the most powerful wizards of all time instead of being pathetically inbred. Unfortunately, this son turned out to be Tom Riddle Junior, also known as [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]]. He was at least as depraved as his ancestors for three reasons -- both because of his family's prior mental illness due to [[InbredAndEvil inbreeding]], and because he grew up in a loveless orphanage after Merope [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth to him]]. him]], and (possibly) because being conceived through use of a LovePotion [[TheSociopath left him unable to feel love naturally]]. Voldemort also developed ideas on [[FantasticCasteSystem pureblood supremacism]] akin to his maternal family's attitudes, attitudes [[BoomerangBigot despite being a half-blood]], apparently unaware of how his Muggle parentage [[HybridPower benefited benefitted him]].
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* ''Webcomic/CirqueRoyale'': This was the intention with the betrothal of Quinn and Leo, because the Cashworthys were the richest family in the kingdom. [[spoiler:This was in part because the kingdom was broke and needed the money the Cashworthys would bring to the kingdom.]] However, Quinn ran away from home with their close friend Kingston when he was having a bad mental break and married him instead.
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* Found in ''Manga/SteppingOnRoses'': Nozomu, the heir to a banking fortune, has an arranged marriage to ImpoverishedPatrician Miu. When she asks about divorcing Nozumu, her father says that they need his money.
* In ''Manga/TheSecretAgreement'', this is the idea behind the ''very'' sudden wedding between Iori and Hisayo. The well-respected Hanayashiki family arranges a marriage with the wealthy Yonekura family to restore their fortunes. The Hanayashikis are guaranteed financial security and the Yonekuras benefit from the Hanayashiki reputation. The groom stays for the ceremony but ends up running away that night, chasing after his lover. The remaining family members seem to get along, however, and still consider it a legitimate alliance.
* In ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'', this is the main reason Viscount Campbell approves his daughter Eleanor's engagement to William Jones despite his disdain for anyone who is not an aristocrat (the Joneses are wealthy merchants, and relative newcomers to high society). There is a great deal of gossip about the Jones family fortune and the Campbell family's financial straits at the party celebrating their engagement.
* In ''Manga/TheSecretAgreement'', this is the idea behind the ''very'' sudden wedding between Iori and Hisayo. The well-respected Hanayashiki family arranges a marriage with the wealthy Yonekura family to restore their fortunes. The Hanayashikis are guaranteed financial security and the Yonekuras benefit from the Hanayashiki reputation. The groom stays for the ceremony but ends up running away that night, chasing after his lover. The remaining family members seem to get along, however, and still consider it a legitimate alliance.
* In ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'', this is the main reason Viscount Campbell approves his daughter Eleanor's engagement to William Jones despite his disdain for anyone who is not an aristocrat (the Joneses are wealthy merchants, and relative newcomers to high society). There is a great deal of gossip about the Jones family fortune and the Campbell family's financial straits at the party celebrating their engagement.
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* Found in ''Manga/SteppingOnRoses'': Nozomu, the heir to a banking fortune, has an arranged marriage to ImpoverishedPatrician Miu. When she asks about divorcing Nozumu, her father says that they need his money.
* In ''Manga/TheSecretAgreement'', this''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'': Tsukasa’s mom, [[EvilMatriarch Kaede]], is the idea behind the ''very'' sudden wedding between Iori and Hisayo. The well-respected Hanayashiki family arranges a marriage with the super wealthy Yonekura family to restore their fortunes. The Hanayashikis are guaranteed financial security businesswoman who puts money and the Yonekuras benefit from the Hanayashiki reputation. The groom stays for the ceremony but ends up running away that night, chasing after his lover. The remaining family members seem status above everything. After succeeding in marrying off her daughter, Tsubaki, to get along, however, and still consider it a legitimate alliance.
* In ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'', this is the main reason Viscount Campbell approves his daughter Eleanor's engagement to William Jones despite his disdain for anyone who is not an aristocrat (the Joneses areher chosen wealthy merchants, businessman, she tries to do the same to her son, Tsukasa. Upon learning her son is in love with a commoner, Tsukushi, she tries everything to keep them apart, including forcing Tsukushi's parents and relative newcomers to high society). There is a great deal of gossip about the Jones family fortune and the Campbell family's financial straits at the party celebrating friends' parents/relatives’ business go downhill or fired from their engagement.jobs. [[spoiler:Eventually she's failed as she notices how much Tsukasa loves Tsukushi that she reluctantly lets her son marries Tsukushi.]]
* In ''Manga/TheSecretAgreement'', this
* In ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'', this is the main reason Viscount Campbell approves his daughter Eleanor's engagement to William Jones despite his disdain for anyone who is not an aristocrat (the Joneses are
* In ''Manga/EmmaAVictorianRomance'', this is the main reason Viscount Campbell approves his daughter Eleanor's engagement to William Jones despite his disdain for anyone who is not an aristocrat (the Joneses are wealthy merchants, and relative newcomers to high society). There is a great deal of gossip about the Jones family fortune and the Campbell family's financial straits at the party celebrating their engagement.
*''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The driving force behind the arranged marriage between Mark Wellington and Kitty Shearer. The Wellingtons are aristocrats with very little wealth left, whereas the Shearers own an extremely successful business empire. Mark doesn't want this, but good luck telling his father that.
*''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Lynn's father is the Viscount Marble/George Russell, a British aristocrat. When George was young, he was married to his college sweetheart Frances Russell, with who he had his first daughter Sarah, and after she died in childbirth he married a Japanese woman named Misuzu Midorikawa, with who he had Lynn. Lynn lived all her life in Japan and moved to England at the age of five, but Misuzu died in a car accident on the way. Now that George is single and eligible for marriage, his father, Duke Warbawn, pressures him to marry Baron Madeleine Waverly for her wealth because he's [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense in tons of debt]] for his poor financial decisions. Even though Madeleine has enough money to pay off his debts, George doesn't want to marry her, and opts for earning the money by more ethical means. As the Russells become poorer and poorer, Duke Warbawn's pressure increases, to the point he even offers to accept Lynn (who he previously excluded for being half Japanese) if George marries Madeleine.
*''Anime/HelloSandybell'': The driving force behind the arranged marriage between Mark Wellington and Kitty Shearer. The Wellingtons are aristocrats with very little wealth left, whereas the Shearers own an extremely successful business empire. Mark doesn't want this, but good luck telling his father that.
*''Manga/{{Lady}}'': Lynn's father is the Viscount Marble/George Russell, a British aristocrat. When George was young, he was married to his college sweetheart Frances Russell, with who he had his first daughter Sarah, and after she died in childbirth he married a Japanese woman named Misuzu Midorikawa, with who he had Lynn. Lynn lived all her life in Japan and moved to England at the age of five, but Misuzu died in a car accident on the way. Now that George is single and eligible for marriage, his father, Duke Warbawn, pressures him to marry Baron Madeleine Waverly for her wealth because he's [[RichInDollarsPoorInSense in tons of debt]] for his poor financial decisions. Even though Madeleine has enough money to pay off his debts, George doesn't want to marry her, and opts for earning the money by more ethical means. As the Russells become poorer and poorer, Duke Warbawn's pressure increases, to the point he even offers to accept Lynn (who he previously excluded for being half Japanese) if George marries Madeleine.
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* ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'': Tsukasa’s mom, [[EvilMatriarch Kaede]], is a super wealthy businesswoman who puts money and status above everything. After succeeding in marrying off her daughter, Tsubaki, to her chosen wealthy businessman, she tries to do the same to her son, Tsukasa. Upon learning her son is in love with a commoner, Tsukushi, she tries everything to keep them apart, including forcing Tsukushi's parents and friends' parents/relatives’ business go downhill or fired from their jobs. [[spoiler:Eventually she's failed as she notices how much Tsukasa loves Tsukushi that she reluctantly lets her son marries Tsukushi.]]
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* ''Manga/BoysOverFlowers'': Tsukasa’s mom, [[EvilMatriarch Kaede]], Found in ''Manga/SteppingOnRoses'': Nozomu, the heir to a banking fortune, has an arranged marriage to ImpoverishedPatrician Miu. When she asks about divorcing Nozumu, her father says that they need his money.
* In ''Manga/TheSecretAgreement'', this is the idea behind the ''very'' sudden wedding between Iori and Hisayo. The well-respected Hanayashiki family arranges asuper marriage with the wealthy businesswoman who puts money and status above everything. After succeeding in marrying off her daughter, Tsubaki, Yonekura family to her chosen wealthy businessman, she tries to do the same to her son, Tsukasa. Upon learning her son is in love with a commoner, Tsukushi, she tries everything to keep them apart, including forcing Tsukushi's parents and friends' parents/relatives’ business go downhill or fired from restore their jobs. [[spoiler:Eventually she's failed as she notices how much Tsukasa loves Tsukushi fortunes. The Hanayashikis are guaranteed financial security and the Yonekuras benefit from the Hanayashiki reputation. The groom stays for the ceremony but ends up running away that she reluctantly lets her son marries Tsukushi.]]night, chasing after his lover. The remaining family members seem to get along, however, and still consider it a legitimate alliance.
* In ''Manga/TheSecretAgreement'', this is the idea behind the ''very'' sudden wedding between Iori and Hisayo. The well-respected Hanayashiki family arranges a
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* ''Series/TheBuccaneers2023'': Too new-money for the Gilded Age New York social set, the Elmsworth and St. George daughters are sent across the pond to snag even older money to add legitimacy — English aristocracy. Conversely, Lord Seadown is urged by his snobby mother to wed one of them as it would keep their noble estates afloat.
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* Although technically not "nobility", Pete Campbell of ''Series/MadMen'' definitely qualifies as an ImpoverishedPatrician - despite being able to trace his ancestry to the original Dutch settlers on Manhattan (except perhaps for Virginia planters and Boston Brahmins, you really can't get any more BlueBlood than that in America!), and his family on his mother's side (the Dyckmans) once owning half of Upper Manhattan,[[note]]There really was a Dyckman family that owned half of Upper Manhattan, by the way; Dyckman Street in Inwood (''waaaaayyy'' at the north end of Manhattan Island) is named for them.[[/note]] by 1960 the Campbells are in serious financial trouble on account of his grandfather's bad investments in the 1920s and his father's more recent profligacy. So he marries Trudy Vogel, the daughter of a [[SelfMadeMan self-made]] executive at pharmaceutical firm Richardson-Vicks (the guys who make Clearasil anti-acne cream - the critical account that makes Pete so attractive to Sterling Cooper - as well as, well, Vicks. Like [=NyQuill=] and [=VapoRub=]). This has... mixed results.
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* Although technically not "nobility", Pete Campbell of ''Series/MadMen'' definitely qualifies as an ImpoverishedPatrician - despite being able to trace his ancestry to the original Dutch settlers on Manhattan (except perhaps for Virginia planters and Boston Brahmins, you really can't get any more BlueBlood than that in America!), and his family on his mother's side (the Dyckmans) once owning half of Upper Manhattan,[[note]]There really was a Dyckman family that owned half of Upper Manhattan, by the way; Dyckman Street in Inwood (''waaaaayyy'' at the north end of Manhattan Island) is named for them.[[/note]] by 1960 the Campbells are in serious financial trouble on account of his grandfather's bad investments in the 1920s and his father's more recent profligacy. So he marries Trudy Vogel, the daughter of a [[SelfMadeMan self-made]] executive at pharmaceutical firm Richardson-Vicks (the guys who make Clearasil anti-acne cream - the critical account that makes Pete so attractive to Sterling Cooper - as well as, well, Vicks. Like [=NyQuill=] and [=VapoRub=]). [[note]]Ironically, Trudy is played by Creator/AlisonBrie, who is, um, able to trace her ancestry to the original Dutch settlers on Manhattan--she's a Schermerhorn, related to the likes of Caroline Schermerhorn Astor and none other than UsefulNotes/FranklinDelanoRoosevelt.[[/note]] This has... mixed results.
