Reading up recently on the Wars of the Roses, something piqued my interest.
Margaret Beaufort was married to Edmund Tudor in 1455. She was Twelve, going on thirteen and he was 26. This marriage produced only one son, the future Henry VII. It was also a marriage of convenience between for the Lancastrian family as a whole, uniting the two bastardized family lines in unity.
Edward, Earl of March, son of Richard Duke of York was thirteen at the time, having been born in 1442, practically a whole year before Margaret. He would become Edward IV in 1461.
Considering the political disunity between the entire English nobility, and the enmity between the Dukes of Somerset (AKA: Margaret Beaufort's family) and the Dukes of York (Edward's family) could a marriage between Margaret and Edward become plausible? Would it at all stop the Wars of the Roses...or would it continue regardless?
Margaret Beaufort was married to Edmund Tudor in 1455. She was Twelve, going on thirteen and he was 26. This marriage produced only one son, the future Henry VII. It was also a marriage of convenience between for the Lancastrian family as a whole, uniting the two bastardized family lines in unity.
Edward, Earl of March, son of Richard Duke of York was thirteen at the time, having been born in 1442, practically a whole year before Margaret. He would become Edward IV in 1461.
Considering the political disunity between the entire English nobility, and the enmity between the Dukes of Somerset (AKA: Margaret Beaufort's family) and the Dukes of York (Edward's family) could a marriage between Margaret and Edward become plausible? Would it at all stop the Wars of the Roses...or would it continue regardless?