I was thinking back on one of my favourite timelines, Now Blooms the Tudor Rose (by @Space Oddity) and then got onto the frailty of the House of Tudor - despite Henry VII producing three sons, the House was extinct by 1603. And the War of the Roses had severely pruned the Houses of York and Lancaster.
Following the Battle of Bosworth the senior Yorkist claimants are:
On the Lancastrian side its even worse, as Henry Tudor had a pretty flimsy claim anyway. The main figures beyond Henry Tudor on that side are:
Following the Battle of Bosworth the senior Yorkist claimants are:
- Edward, Earl of Warwick (10 years old and currently residing in the Tower of London).
- John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln (who did try for the throne, but ostensibly did so in the name of the above Edward).
- Elizabeth of York (Edward IV's surviving daughter, but a woman, so really needs to pump out some sons).
On the Lancastrian side its even worse, as Henry Tudor had a pretty flimsy claim anyway. The main figures beyond Henry Tudor on that side are:
- Charles Somerset (a bastard, legitimised by Act of Parliament following Henry Tudor's accession).
- Edward Stafford (a landless boy, until his father's attainder was reversed by Henry VII).
- Thomas Beaufort (who probably didn't exist, but sometimes gets included in lists of the 2nd Duke of Somerset's children).
- Eleanor Beaufort (a woman, and with only daughters, and an Irish (noble) husband.
- Nicholas St Lawrence (who derives his claim through being the senior legitimate male descendant of John of Gaunt, with a line that goes: John of Gaunt - John Beaufort, Earl of Somerset - Edmund Beaufort, Duke of Somerset - Joan Beaufort - Nicholas St Lawrence. A really minor Irish noble).
- James II of Scotland (a Scot, a foreign king, and one that can't hold his own kingdom together).
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