Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales

What was his personality like? I've often heard that he would not have made a very good king, if he had managed to inherit the throne either peacefully or by other means. Had he been born earlier, perhaps within a year of his parents marriage, could the wars have been prevented?
 
The suggestion about an earlier birth is interesting.

Just speculating. Of the OTL Edward, in an earlier discussion someone convincingly suggested that his early life would have made him insecure, and thus probably violently defensive. Maybe most medieval boys talked a lot about killing people, but I gather he concentrated on it enough - 'nothing but' - to be remarked on.
 
The suggestion about an earlier birth is interesting.

Just speculating. Of the OTL Edward, in an earlier discussion someone convincingly suggested that his early life would have made him insecure, and thus probably violently defensive. Maybe most medieval boys talked a lot about killing people, but I gather he concentrated on it enough - 'nothing but' - to be remarked on.

Killing people, if done to the right people, and in the right context, is an asset to a Medieval king. Just compare Henry VI, and Edward IV in their attitude towards killing. Or even Henry VII, who killed a lot of Yorkists.

He would be no more insecure as a boy as Henry Tudor. Would he be a successful king? Maybe, maybe not.

But I'm sure he would be a lot better than Henry VI as king.
 
Killing people, if done to the right people, and in the right context, is an asset to a Medieval king. Just compare Henry VI, and Edward IV in their attitude towards killing. Or even Henry VII, who killed a lot of Yorkists.

He would be no more insecure as a boy as Henry Tudor. Would he be a successful king? Maybe, maybe not.

But I'm sure he would be a lot better than Henry VI as king.

Very good points. He might be quite popular.
 
Isabella of Castile or Catherine of Navarre is a possibility.

There was a TL (can't remember the name), where the Union of the Crowns of Castile and the Angevin Empire (i.e. Aragon, Naples, Anjou etc) takes place through a marriage of a landless Edward of Westminster (the Lancastrians flee into exile as OTL) as heir to the Angevin empire (due to Nicolas of Lorraine/Jean II, duke of Lorraine and Calabria dying childless) and Juan II of Aragon having no heirs) and marrying Isabel of Castile. There son marries a Yorkist princess (at least on paper) while their youngest daughter is married to Henry Tudor's eldest son after an alt-Bosworth.

Was interesting, if not necessarily plausible.
 
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