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From: William Addams Reitwiesner <>
Subject: Re: Lancastrians of Bavaria
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 10:49:26 GMT


Ron <> wrote:

>Does anyone know why the line of Blanche of Lancaster, wife of the Count
>Palatine of The Rhine and sister of Henry V of England was not a player
>in the dynastic Wars of the Roses? The Royal House of Portugal refers
>to themselves as Condes de Lancaster, yet the Wittelsbachs appear to
>have a more recent claim.

One fairly good reason for this is that Blanche had one and only one
child, a son named Ruprecht. This Ruprecht died in 1426, two days
before he would have turned twenty years old, unmarried.

>How could Lady Margaret Beaufort claim to be the senior representative
>of Lancaster when the House of Bavaria clealy held that title? One
>would think that Bedford would have imported a spare
>Wittelsbach-Plantagenet Prince as a spare in case Henry VI expired in
>infancy, the next heir apparent should have been the Bavarians, what
>happneed?

See above as to the absurdity of your question.

William Addams Reitwiesner

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