A different Queen Catherine for King Henry V

Catherine of Pomerania (1390-1426) was the daughter of Wartislaw VII, Duke of Pomerania and Mary of Mecklenburg.
Catherine was a candidate for a time for marriage to Prince Henry of Wales (later King Henry V of England). The marriage was suggested in 1400-1401. The marriage never occurred.

Suppose Prince Henry of England does marry Princess Catherine of Pomerania in 1405. What happens then?
 
Does this affect his claim to the French throne and avoid him dying in France?

If so Catherine could produce a heir and spares. Instead of Henry V only having one child.
 
Bear in mind, the main reason the second half of the double wedding between England and Kalmar didn't go through was because the Lancastrians wanted the right to succeed Erik even if Katherina died childless. I think if Henry marries Katherina England may go off to fight for a crown in Scandinavia rather than France. And can you imagine the logistical disaster of fighting for the French crown (which you have a slender right to) AND the Scandinavian crowns (which weren't even yours to begin with).
 
In all actuality, this would probably make the War of the Roses not happen. York was only able to assert his claim because Henry VI was, to put it lightly, a complete and utter nutter. With no madness from France poisoning the line, the Lancastrians will be fine...

As long as Margaret of Anjou keeps well away from their lineage as she offended York which caused him to truly rise against the throne.

It also wipes Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, meaning that Margaret Beaufort might have children with Henry Stafford (if she marries him still!).

It also means that the children of Edward IV - Edward, Duke of York, in this timeline - would be different. No war means that John Grey of Groby doesn't die... so Elizabeth Woodville wouldn't be a widow and her husband would eventually becomes 8th Baron Ferrers of Groby, making her baroness.

It alters a lot... provided, as I said, that France and Margaret of Anjou keep away!
 
Catherine's brother Eric marries Princess Philippa on October 26, 1406. They have no children. After Philippa's death in 1430, Eric does not remarry.
His nephew, his sister's second son, Prince John has been named as Eric's heir.
 
Bear in mind, the main reason the second half of the double wedding between England and Kalmar didn't go through was because the Lancastrians wanted the right to succeed Erik even if Katherina died childless. I think if Henry marries Katherina England may go off to fight for a crown in Scandinavia rather than France. And can you imagine the logistical disaster of fighting for the French crown (which you have a slender right to) AND the Scandinavian crowns (which weren't even yours to begin with).


Though iirc the Scandinavian monarchies were elective, so this obstacle wouldn't be insuperable. Also, I understand there were precedents there for a husband being regarded as his wife's heir. A king of Norway had tried to claim the Scottish throne on that ground as late as 1290. And in the early 15C the Kalmar throne would pass to Christian I, whose hereditary claim was so distant that he had to reinforce it by marrying his predecessor's widow.

Imho the problem would be more at the English end. Most Englishmen had little interest in Scandinavia, so victories there wouldn't bring the prestige that a victory in France would. And for Lancaster, a new dynasty with a shaky claim, the prestige angle was very important indeed.
 
I don't think Margaret of Anjou marrying into the Lancastrian dynasty will cause anything as long as the Lancastrian King is sane and intelligent.
 
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