Edward of Westminster

WI: He had managed to escape England in 1471 and returns to France. He's still alive in 1485, when Richard III is on the throne. It seems logical that he will attempt an invasion, but what about Henry Tudor?
 
WI: He had managed to escape England in 1471 and returns to France. He's still alive in 1485, when Richard III is on the throne. It seems logical that he will attempt an invasion, but what about Henry Tudor?
Henry Tudor will probably follow his cousin,who will likely be accompanied by his half-uncle Jasper Tudor.
 
WI: He had managed to escape England in 1471 and returns to France. He's still alive in 1485, when Richard III is on the throne. It seems logical that he will attempt an invasion, but what about Henry Tudor?

Does Anne Neville also escape or is she captured? If she escapes chances are Edward will have an heir to carry on his claims if worst comes to worst. As for Henry Tudor, he'd just be yet another exiled Lancastrian noble. His claim came from being the last male member of the House of Lancaster. With the King's son still alive and well, he'd definitely join his cousin in a bid to reclaim his lost lands.
 
Henry Tudor wasn't actually a member of the House of Lancaster, he was a Tudor and with a living Lancastrian Plantagenet around he hasn't really got a claim. But that doesn't mean he won't be returning to England. Edward IV was fairly generous about restoring attainted Lancastrians to their lands and titles e.g. Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland whose father had died fighting Edward at Towton, so there is a chance Henry Tudor will return. He probably wouldn't get the Earldom of Pembroke or most of his father's lands but he would probably be given something if only because his mother was married to Lord Stanley a prominent Yorkist.
 
Why wouldn't Henry Tudor be given the earldom of Pembroke? Provided he supports Edward of Westminster. Edit: just occurred to me Jasper was his uncle, Henry would be a candidate for the earldom of Richmond.
 
The plan of Harry Tudor's one time warder - the Herbert earl of Pembroke - had been to marry his only legitimate child, his daughter Elizabeth Herbert, suo jure Baroness Herbert, to Tudor. Said Elizabeth was niece of the queen - Elizabeth Wydeville. OTL she married Harry's cousin the earl of Worcester, an illegitimate scion of the already illegitimate Beauforts. EIV dangled the prospect of the restoration of the earldom of Richmond to Harry - the title had been granted to the duke of Clarence, but he'd been executed and his titles forfeit - as well as granting his consent to this marriage, if Harry would bend the knee to the Yorks. As we all know this didn't happen. Perhaps if he's further removed from the crown - as in my TL - he'd take Edward's offer more seriously?
 
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