Henry VI of England

His marriage with Margaret of Anjou is childless. Would this make it easier for the Duke of York to claim or seize the throne? Or would Henry name another heir, possibly Henry Tudor?
 
His marriage with Margaret of Anjou is childless. Would this make it easier for the Duke of York to claim or seize the throne? Or would Henry name another heir, possibly Henry Tudor?

Henry Tudor's a rather unlikely candidate (only being descended through his mother) although he is the king's half-nephew. Not to mention there's a slough of Beaufort men ahead of him. York's probably gonna be more insufferable if there's no one to displace him from the line of succession (unless Henry legitimizes the Beauforts with succession rights and all).
 
I think Henry VI would try to nominate Edmund Beaufort or Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter (who was a Lancastrian as he had one of John of Gaunt's daughters as an ancestor). York of course would see himself as the heir to the throne.
 

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His marriage with Margaret of Anjou is childless. Would this make it easier for the Duke of York to claim or seize the throne? Or would Henry name another heir, possibly Henry Tudor?

York would be next in line if Henry VI dies childless.
 
I suspect it depends on Henry's health too. If he suffers his illness/mental collapse in 1453, then things open up for York.

While Richard of York was the heir, he wasn't comfortable in that seat even before the birth of Edward of Westminster. After all, he'd already gathered troops and had an abortive uprising in 1452 at Dartford, IIRC. This uprising was because he was worried that Somerset was going to replace him in the line of succession. Well, that added to the fact that you can't march against the king in the 15th century. It's always his evil advisers that you object too.
 
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