Queen Broody Mary as parricide

In 1488, a 15 year old boy led an army against his father.
On 11th of June, the father accepted battle - lost and fell. The boy was King James IV, and a parricide.

From 1536 to 1537, there was a rebellion against another king. Who at the point had no living son, one toddler daughter declared a bastard by himself and everyone else and a daughter aged 20-21 who was regarded as legitimate by most save himself.

Suppose Henry is killed in Pilgrimage of Grace. How would Queen Mary rule as a 20...21 year old parricide? Especially if she was not (unlike James IV) in the rebel camp before killing her father?

Edward was begotten in January 1537. Pilgrimage continued beyond that. And even Mary acknowledged Jane Seymour Henry´s lawful wife, because Catherine was naturally dead before Jane married.

If Henry is killed in Spring 1537, with Jane pregnant, would Mary call herself queen or not? If Jane´s child is another daughter then Mary is the elder... or else the English Crown goes into abeyance between coheiresses.
 
Except when it came to religion or her mother (and on the former she eventually bent under pressure) Mary was a dutiful daughter. She was even loyal to her uber-Protestant little brother who consistently pressured her to abjure her religion and had he lived longer would have made her life as much a hell as their father. If Jane Seymour is pregnant when Henry dies, there will some kind of interim "Regency" - if it is a boy, Mary will acknowledge him as King, if it is a girl, she will claim the crown...and will have the support in 1537 of the overwhelming majority of the populace, including probably Jane Seymour (a maid of honour to Catherine of Aragon) herself.
 
Jane Seymour likely dies as well like otl, let's remember. Assuming it's Edward like otl, the hand that rocks the cradle, be it Mary or Cromwell or whomever, rules the Kingdom. I'd say a piously Catholic Edward who admires both his piously Catholic sisters (Elizabeth would be raised to think of herself as a bastard in this scenario) could be a likely outcome.
 
So... Margaret Tudor is also very much around (lived till 1541).
What was James V-s position about Pilgrimage?
Suppose Mary marries James. Can Mary stay in England as Regent for baby Edward while King of Scotland (possibly at the head of Scotch armies who successfully slew King of England) joins her in England?
 
Common grandfather Henry VII. Is dispensation feasible?
Felipe WAS feasible. THEIR relationship was... second cousins, not first. (Mary´s grandparents Fernando and Isabel were Felipe´s great-grandparents).
Absolutely yes. And Felipe was a first cousin once removed not a second cousin...
Plus for royals and nobles at that time marrying a first cousin was a normal/perfectly reasonable match who only required the papal dispensation for being valid.
 
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