A daughter for Henry VI TL

Okay so i'm thinking about putting together a timeline where Henry VI and Margaret of Anjou had a daughter, Catherine/Margaret born in around 1455. In this TL however she will fall into Yorkist hands after Towton and not accompany her mother to Scotland or France. Edward IV has a bargaining chip but what does he choose to do with her? Who does she marry, a Lancastrian Princess in York hands. By the late 1460s she will be of marriageable age, does she marry Clarence or Gloucester perhaps? What do you reckon?
 
Edward would do well to marry her, nominally, in 1461 and thus consolidate his hold on all the Lancastrians who were disappointed by Margaret of Anjou's disregard for the Act of Accord.
 
Do you really think so? She's be extremely young, prospect of a York/Lancaster heir would be a decade away in all likelihood. I can't see him marrying her to clarence but what about someone close and trustworthy?
 
Well Richard of Gloucester was the most loyal of the Yorkist brothers during the life of Edward IV but our hypothetical Lancastrian probably won't be a great heiress like Anne Neville.
 
No she wouldn't be a great heiress, actually she'd be more of a political liability. I had thought of a husband like William, Lord Herbert (strong Yorkist ally, not strong enough to threaten Edward) or perhaps Edward's stepson Thomas Grey but maybe they'd be too low for a Lancastrian princess, wonder what Warwick would think of. Edward IV betrothed his daughter to Warwick's nephew the Duke of Bedford? really can't think of suggestions in England or abroad.
 
No she wouldn't be a great heiress, actually she'd be more of a political liability. I had thought of a husband like William, Lord Herbert (strong Yorkist ally, not strong enough to threaten Edward) or perhaps Edward's stepson Thomas Grey but maybe they'd be too low for a Lancastrian princess, wonder what Warwick would think of. Edward IV betrothed his daughter to Warwick's nephew the Duke of Bedford? really can't think of suggestions in England or abroad.

Her rank really doesn't mean much if one accepts that her father isn't rightful king - that demotes him and thus her rather significantly.

So Herbert might be good, if he's not married or looking for a better prospect.
 
Henry VI was deposed and his son excluded from the succession, but it's not like he underwent some kind of damnatio memoriae...she'd still be the daughter of a King and granddaughter of another. At very worst she's the heiress to the Palatine-Duchy of Lancaster and several earldoms. Marrying her to Clarence or anyone else does nothing to neutralize the Lancaster threat: if anything happens to her brother, you're opening up the Lancaster line of succession to continue through her onto her children (be they Clarences, Herberts, whoever).

I can see Edward VI betrothing himself to her or, worst case scenario, marrying elsewhere with the plan to betroth her to his eldest son (Beltraneja-style). Marrying her off elsewhere is too big a risk - no matter how loyal to Edward her new husband would stand to win a lot more by putting Henry back on the throne or, once Henry and Edward of Lancaster are dead, taking it jure uxoris.
 
Heir to Lancaster is probably more significant than "daughter of a usurper" (which is kinda what the Yorkist argument on what Henry VI was was), though. One requires yet another conflict, the other is just the law of succession.
 
I agree, Edward IV would be smart to marry her and claim the Duchy of Lancaster via marriage to her. Sure he held onto it in the OTL, but this marriage might quiet some of the country's Lancastrian sentiments and rebelliousness.
 
How about the traditional European solution to awkward women?

Send her to a nunnery!!

No risk of children, effectively terminating that line of Lancastrian descent, no blood on Edward's hands and difficult to criticise him. The Church would play along, it understood the importance of realpolitik and everyone wins (apart from her but since when was that of any relevance).
 
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How about the traditional European solution to awkward women?

Send her to a nunnery!!

No risk of children, effectively terminating that line of Lancastrian descent, no blood on Edward's hands and difficult to criticise him. The Church would play along, it understood the importance of realpolitik and everyone wins (apart from her but since when was that of any relevance).

Problem is she could be kidnapped and wed at any time. Her vows are only valid if she takes them up willingly: any adventuring 1/18th Plantagenet knight could ride by, bust her out and claim the throne in her name (and drum up quite a bit of support for such a scheme, on her name alone). Passing an attainder on her brother for continued treason (as regards the Act of Accord) and making her sole heiress of Lancaster would go a long way to conciliating the supporters of Lancaster to Edward IV's cause. He was, after all, the great-grandson of John of Gaunt and great-nephew of King Henry IV.
 
I think the one problem to Edward IV marrying her is if she is born in 1455 then in 1461 she is only 6 so she can't legally marry. Edward IV would have to wait until 1467 before she could legally marry. Edward IV married Elizabeth Woodville in 1464 in OTL. He could easily do the same in TTL. I've discussed this in a few other threads..
 
I think what everyone's forgetting here is that England hadn't had a queen yet - except Empress Matilda (and look how that turned out). They hated Marguerite d'Anjou almost to a man, but supported her husband, the rightful king.

Also, while Marguerite married EoW to Anne Neville, she herself would've viewed it as a mésalliance and would likely have tried to annul it as soon as the Lancastrians were firmly established back on the throne - unless of course Anne had produced an heir in the meantime.

Again, England's going to be reluctant to accept a reigning queen, when there is a young and energetic legitimate male-line descendant of Edward III available.

As to any children of her loins, it will either be a case of Henry VI (if lucid enough when he dies) will pass the crown directly onto the eldest of her son/s, rather than allow a queen to rule England. MoA might have different opinions of her daughter's capabilities and consider her as the rightful queen of England ahead of her son.

And no one is making any guesses as to the personality of Queen Catherine/Margaret. Her brother has almost continuously been portrayed as a psychopath since before Shakespeare's day. And MoA is regarded as a 'she-wolf'. So, no prizes as to how history might vilify the lady.
 
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