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Rose of England
Margaret of Anjou
Verse I
The Lancastrians would win a major victory against the Yorkists in 1460 in waking field but a larger victory later of that year would be greater disabling the Yorkists in their midst, this was followed by the Battle of Saint Albans on January 1461 wherein Margaret took her husband, Henry VI back from the Yorkist custody.
Isabella of Bourbon, the duchess of Burgundy would give birth to another daughter named Catherine of Burgundy on June 4 1461, her last child that she gives birth to, her other daughter is the four-year-old, Marie and is still the heiress to Burgundy, Catherine is betrothed to Maximilian, the son of the Holy Roman Emperor.
On January 2 1462, Margaret of Anjou gives birth to a daughter named after her, Margaret, the Pearl of England, the birth of a new beginning for England.
Margaret of Anjou's Lancastrian forces would defeat the Yorkists on 1463, causing the Yorkists to go to Burgundy, in this time the Louis XI would only have a surviving daughter, Anne of France at this point.
To prevent an alliance between the Yorkists and the Burgundians and for the Burgundians to abandon any support with the Yorkists, Margaret of Anjou would betroth her only son Edward of Westminster to Marie of Burgundy, the daughter of the Burgundian duke causing the Yorkists to leave to French court.
The de jure King of Navarre Charles IV would consent to a betrothal with Catherine of Portugal as his father wanted him to marry since his first wife, Agnes of Cleves died without an heir on 1448, Catherine would eventually marry Charles IV of Navarre on 1463, as he was thinking about the marriage for a long time.
Both the Austrians, French and the English would covet to have the lands of Burgundians, the lands of Burgundy would be the key for a possible Lancastrian reconquest of France and the reignition of the Hundred Years War, Henry VI was happy about the plan of Margaret of Anjou to marry Edward of Westminister to heiress presumptive of Burgundy once he learned about the plan and he is also happy that the Yorkists have been expelled from England, the lancastrian forces can start the new phase of the Hundred years war, the second Edwardian Phase.