Recent content by mandead

A wonderfully partisan and subjective way to start your thread.

Without Mary, I really don't know, but in theory it does strengthen Jane's case as Edward's nominated heir. However, it probably also strengthens Elizabeth's as well, as she's now Henry's last surviving child (regardless of her legal status).

This is semantics, really. The fact is that Edward was never declared of age and never undertook personal rule in his own name; he had a Lord Protector in Somerset, and then a Regent (with council) in Warwick. We can debate how much personal influence Edward actually had, but we cannot debate...

@Kellan Sullivan Oh, absolutely, but Edward gets to pick his heir whilst he's alive, and the older he gets (i.e. we assume here he lives to maturity) the more secure that becomes. The larger his powerbase, the more Protestant people in positions in power, the more distant (i.e. exiled from...

Not at all, and nothing personal meant. There's an awful lot I don't know about an awful lot of things, but I have read biographies of Edward VI and it is fairly clear from contemporary accounts that he was very Protestant and, had he lived, would have carried out a thorough conversion of...

Are you being obtuse or do you genuinely not understand the difference between adults arranging marriages for one another and children having adults arrange marriages for them?

"Consented" is certainly a key word here, given that Edward didn't choose her and really had no say in the matter.

Yes, Sweden is a good shout - I was actually mid-way through typing a reply as yours popped up: Realistically, for a foreign bride, I think you're looking at a Huguenot or Scandinavian princess - or possibly a Stuart, on the (possible) assumption that there's a Protestant available. Mary of...

They were (failed) negotiations by Henry on Edward's behalf, not marriage contracts. They wouldn't have happened, and of course they didn't happen. Now if we're talking about Edward surviving and being able to influence his own marriage, he'd have married a Protestant. It's blindingly obvious...

Remind me again how many he either married or was contracted to marry.

Edward VI absolutely would not have married a Catholic - he was a fervent Protestant; as much so as Mary was Catholic.

The boys were declared bastards by an Act of Parliament instigated by Richard after he'd usurped the throne, and that Act was later repealed by Henry so as to relegitimize his wife (and obviously on the assumption/knowledge that the boys were already dead). As has already been said, the boys...

Wank a city? Excuse me?

de la Pole is a good shout, but I think some sort of regency for Warwick seems likely. You can't really set up a king from a cadet branch whilst a senior line Plantagenet is still alive and in the country.

Look at what happened when Edward tried to put Jane Grey on the throne, displacing Mary and Elizabeth. Why do you not foresee a similar response to FitzRoy being declared king?