Yorkist Netherlands?

So, I was browsing Wikipedia and discovered that Louis II of Flanders had his sole heiress courted by Edmund of Langley aka the founder of the House of York. Ultimately after years of negotiations, Louis married his only daughter to the Valois-Burgundy leading to the Burgundian Netherlands. But, what if he had arranged her marriage to Edmund leading to an English inheritance of Flanders and other possessions in the Low Countries?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_II,_Count_of_Flanders
 
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I can't say how geopolitics actually worked back then, but England gaining even more land in Europe (since IIRC the Plantgenets already had a fair bit of French land) would threaten France and neighbouring states, Burgundy included. On the other hand England would have even more land and more resources, which might lead to a longer preoccupation with Europe and a later or weaker colonial empire due to belated interest in overseas expansion.
 
I think really it depends on how long they can hold the netherlands, and whether Edmund moves there permanently, and therefore raises his family there or not
 
Even a english-origin family will have local interests in Flanders, as to solidify alliances with neighbours and such. They could become an alt-Burgundy, a princely family congregating a lot of different principalities in a wannabee kingdom, only of English rather than of French origins, but I do not thing their policy will be so different. If Richard of Conisburgh does not wed the Mortimer girl, the Yorks are not in direct line for the throne.

IOTL, Louis of Flanders married his daughter first to Philip of Rouvres, Duke of Burgundy (first line), only after his death (1361) did Margaret married Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy (second or Valois line). An interesting TL would be if Margaret and Philip of Rouvres had children : an other alt-Burgundy, where the principality would be as powerful but the Dukes were far removed from the French succession and could not entangled the way the Valois dukes did.
 
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