AHC: Aviz England

Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Kingdom of England, any time after 1399, be inherited by a member of the House of Aviz, who, IOTL, according to Lancastrian primogeniture succession, were technically next in line after the death of King Henry VI. Whether or not he/she is also ruler of Portugal is up to you.
 
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Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Kingdom of England be inherited by a member of the House of Aviz, who, IOTL, according to Lancastrian primogeniture succession, were technically next in line after the death of King Henry VI. Whether or not he/she is also ruler of Portugal is up to you.

Does a successful marriage between Mary Tudor and the duke of Beja count? Or must the house of Aviz directly succeed Henry VI?
 
The idea I had which led me to start this thread is that, instead of invading Morocco, King Sebastian of Portugal instead decides to invade England and depose the Tudor dynasty, both for their adherence to Protestantism and their "shaky" claim to the throne.
 
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the Kingdom of England, any time after 1399, be inherited by a member of the House of Aviz, who, IOTL, according to Lancastrian primogeniture succession, were technically next in line after the death of King Henry VI. Whether or not he/she is also ruler of Portugal is up to you.

Only if the Beauforts were still ruled out. There were lots of descendants of John, the eldest male Beaufort, who as a male took precedence over his half-sisters Philippa and Elizabeth.

The question is when the Beaufort claim was revived. The claim descended to Margaret Beaufort, but no measures were taken against her. She was even welcomed at the court of Edward IV, and was godmother to one of his daughters. She carried the train of Richard III''s queen (Anne Neville) at their coronation.

So it must have been suppressed then, and the Aviz claim would have precedence.

But there was yet another set of claims that was never raised AFAIK; the descendants of Gaunt's second daughter, Elizabeth. She married John Holland, Duke of Exeter, and had six children. Only one of her three sons had issue, and his line were all dead except one elderly childless granddaughter. But her two older daughters married and had issue; her eldest daughter's son Edmund Grey, 1st Earl of Kent, was alive. One would think an English heir might be preferred to a foreigner...
 
The Holland heirs were quite numerous - Constance Holland line culminated in the Grey's - Edmund's sons were both married to sisters of Elizabeth Woodville (the eldest died without issue - the second married Anne Woodville and after her death married Catherine Herbert)
Elizabeth's second daughter another Elizabeth also left heirs - including Thomas Fiennes 8th Baron Dacre
 
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