WI: Henry VI is a girl?

Catherine de Valois gives birth, and the child is a girl. I believe Lancastrian entails permitted for a female to inherit, but what happens in France? Is there any chance of her marrying the Dauphin, or Richard of York?
 
Maybe Bedford takes the throne and marries the princess to Charles VII. Bedford was an effective leader in fRance and could win considerable victories.

Or, the nobles dominate *Henry VI even more, and could indeed later marry her toCharles VII. I don't see her marrying Richard of York though he could perhaps try to take the throne later. perhaps successfully . king rIchard III.....
 
Catherine de Valois gives birth, and the child is a girl. I believe Lancastrian entails permitted for a female to inherit
Inherit property and pass the titles involved through her husband to her her son, yes; transmit a claim on the English throne to her children, yes; actually inherit the English throne in her own right, unlikely: We'd only had one Queen Regnant by that point, and a lot of the nobles had rebelled against her.
 
Inherit property and pass the titles involved through her husband to her her son, yes; transmit a claim on the English throne to her children, yes; actually inherit the English throne in her own right, unlikely: We'd only had one Queen Regnant by that point, and a lot of the nobles had rebelled against her.

The prospect of King John II is intriguing.
 
Maybe Bedford takes the throne and marries the princess to Charles VII.

Charles isn't going to wait until this girl is grown; and quite apart from that, a more pressing consideration is that she would have been his niece. Needless to say, that is a no-no.

Bedford would become King, and would most likely be a very good one. The chances of an English collapse on the continent would be lessened, as would the likelihood of an analogue of the instability of the middle of the century occurring. Gloucester would still be the consummate intriguer that he was, but with no minority his scope for manoeuvre would be truncated.
 
Charles isn't going to wait until this girl is grown; and quite apart from that, a more pressing consideration is that she would have been his niece. Needless to say, that is a no-no.

Bedford would become King, and would most likely be a very good one. The chances of an English collapse on the continent would be lessened, as would the likelihood of an analogue of the instability of the middle of the century occurring. Gloucester would still be the consummate intriguer that he was, but with no minority his scope for manoeuvre would be truncated.
Actually, a Cousin marriage between Louis XI and the daughter of Henry V could be used in a cease fire or peace treaty.
 
Inherit property and pass the titles involved through her husband to her her son, yes; transmit a claim on the English throne to her children, yes; actually inherit the English throne in her own right, unlikely: We'd only had one Queen Regnant by that point, and a lot of the nobles had rebelled against her.

The entail of King Henry III provided for his daughters Eleanor and Joan to reign as Queens regnant if his sons left no descendants. A big part of Henry VI's propaganda was his double descent from Saint Louis (maternal and paternal), the claims of Edward III coupled with Henry V's adoption by King Charles.

Marrying the young Princess to the new Dauphin Louis would be interesting: maybe the English retain their French properties in return for recognizing young Louis as their young King and Charles as King of France.
 
The entail of King Henry III provided for his daughters Eleanor and Joan to reign as Queens regnant if his sons left no descendants.
Hr'rmm, one learns something new every day...
I wonder what would have happened if that situation had actually been put to the test, though?

*(checks details)*

Do you mean Henry II, rather than Henry III?
 
Actually, a Cousin marriage between Louis XI and the daughter of Henry V could be used in a cease fire or peace treaty.

It's certainly an obvious possibility, though you would probably need to get it passed by the Pope, and you're also assuming that Louis isn't butterflied away - he was born two years after Henry.

I wonder what would have happened if that situation had actually been put to the test, though?

Henry IV justified his usurpation through a lot of bizarre and contradictory contrivances, but one of them was an assertion of non-female line inheritance of claims to the throne, in other words, the Salic law; and this is not the Tudor era, this is the era when being a monarch still very much depended on martial prowess, being a leader of men - that era wouldn't die until Richard III did on the battlefield of Bosworth. In this instance, there's also the fact of the late king having not only a impeccably legitimate brother, but also an impeccably legitimate brother who was by this point experienced in both government and war and widely-respected.

Legally and politically any question of this girl succeeding is a non-starter.
 
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