The Scots

The Scots Princesses

James I of Scotland really made some good matches for his daughters (especially when one considers how the rest of Europe viewed Scotland at the time), namely:

Margaret - married the Dauphin (future Louis XI) of France.
Isabella - married the duke of Brittany and during her widowhood was considered for Carlos of Aragon, Prince of Viana.
Mary - married Wolffert VI van Borsellen.
Annabella - married the Savoyard count of Geneva.
Eleanor - married Archduke Sigmund of Austria.

Margaret had no children by her husband, Isabella only had two daughters, Mary's two children both died in infancy/young, Annabella was twice married and twice divorced with children by her Scots second husband, and Eleanor died in childbirth with her only child, a son.

But say their marriages into the courts of Europe had been more successful, if (or when) the War of the Roses broke out, there would then have been more Lancastrian (albeit Beaufort descended) heirs floating around. What might the results of that have been?
 
IMHO I believe that the only reason James could get such good matches for his daughters was due to a lack of English princesses at the same time.

OTOH, the idea of France being able to put a claim towards the English throne (albeit through Beauforts) is certainly interesting.
 
I'm doubtful that any of the Beaufort descendants abroad would make claims or have them be taken seriously. Most likely they are considered the same way as John of Gaunt's legitimate female-line descendants in Castile.

I suppose a French monarch who wanted to sufficiently annoy a Yorkist England might make a claim (the flip-side of the 100YW), but more likely he'd sponsor some other Lancastrian (much like Henry Tudor, or for that matter the Readeption of Henry VI). A French claim to the English crown would receive almost no local support at this point, so supporting a potentially malleable puppet (whether a Lancastrian, a Yorkist rebel like Clarence or even someone like Perkin Warbeck) seems better.
 
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