Edward of Lancaster

Was he really Henry VI's son? Or was his father someone else? I've heard that his father was really one of the Beaufort but I don't recall the reference. It does seem strange that after several years of marriage, Margaret "suddenly" gets pregnant.
 
Normally you have the dukes of Suffolk and Somerset named as the possible "fathers" but there is no proof of that, so...
 
Was he really Henry VI's son? Or was his father someone else? I've heard that his father was really one of the Beaufort but I don't recall the reference. It does seem strange that after several years of marriage, Margaret "suddenly" gets pregnant.

Evidence for this is literally nil. During his time as Protector, the Duke of York never raised the question, and there seems to have been no rift between the King and Queen. If anything, after his recovery her influence over Henry seems to have increased - more what you'd expect if, at least as far as he knew, she really had given him a son.

Most likely, the King just managed to "get it up" that once in a blue moon.
 
Was he really Henry VI's son? Or was his father someone else? I've heard that his father was really one of the Beaufort but I don't recall the reference. It does seem strange that after several years of marriage, Margaret "suddenly" gets pregnant.

It doesn't really matter by common law the father of the child is the husband of the mother, unless the father disavows him/her. By tradition it didn't really matter, and nobody would of really contested it unless it was blatantly impossible for him to of fathered the child. The whole system of hereditary succession was based upon this principle. So historically even if there had been proof, it didn't really matter when talking about royal succession.

I'm sure there have been several kings and lords who inherited there "father's estate or crown" that biologically had a different father.
 
Let's not forget that Edward IV, Mary I and Elizabeth were all either considered bastards or rumored to be the fruit of their mother's adultery when the Crown of St. Edward was placed on their head.
 
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