1. The idea and begin
Richard III wins 1485 at Bosworth Field and Henry Tudor doesn't......the rest of the the Rebellion gets put down....
And he sends a few emissaries to King Joao II of Portugal and asks for a bride of Lancaster Blood.....
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Richard is widower and needs to remarry to sire an heir.....OTL he had been interested in Joanna of Portugal, sister of Joao II, but she already had taken her clerical vows and had never been interested in marriage....
There are not many other female descendants of Philippa of Lancaster in the best fitting age bracket and currently unmarried left though....to be honest, there
is actually only one and she is a young widow.
Isabel of Viseu had been widowed since the execution of her husband Fernando II, Duke of Braganza in 1483 and also since the family possessions of her husband's family had been confiscated by the King, she had fled with her children to Castile, fearing what further actions her brother-in-law might take to show his Power over all the nobility of Portugal.
Now, this fear was of course based on the fact that her Cousin and brother-in-law Joao II had not only ordered the execution of her husband but also of her older brother Diogo, Duke of Viseu and thus nobody could be sure to not be the next one who might get a shortened lifespan.
Now, OTL Isabel and her kids only returned to Portugal after her younger brother Manuel became King after the death of Joao and only then the riches of husband's family were returned to her and her children.
Now my is, that this could be a Chance for Isabel's sister, Joao II's wife Queen Leonor to see this as a way to protect her younger sister from further harm by her her husband the King and thus somehow gets Joao to agree to put forward the widow Isabel instead of his nun sister Joanna as bride for the King of England.
Richard needs an heir, Isabel had proven her fertility in her first marriage, she is a lot younger than the sister of the King but from the same noble Blood, seeing that Isabel's dad and Joanna's and the King's dad had been brothers and so Richard agrees.
Isabel gets the news in her Castilian exile and even though she feels safe enough there in the Court of her second Cousins Isabella and Ferdinand, she also sees a good Chance for even more safety in a Country which is a bit further away.
And this English King is only seven years older than her, which is a nice change from her first husband who was a good twenty-nine years her senior.
Plus, she gets to be Queen too.
So, she sends letters of agreement though under the Condition that her surviving Children (a few had been lost to the then typical early childhood illnesses) either can come with her or get otherwise protected.
Both Kings grumble at that condition but Richard really wants to marry a woman with Lancaster blood and she is the best there is left and Joao wants to get done with Braganza related problem and so he looks over the confiscated possessions, takes a nice portion of money and Jewelry from it and declares it to be the dowry of his sister-in-law and Richard agrees that that. The Braganza kids each receive a nice sum and jewelry too from Joao as compensation for their confiscated inheritance but their name becomes forbidden forever in Portugal.
And so Richard agrees (the dowry is a really really mouthwatering amount of money and jewelry and he had just won a very costly War)
In the late days of 1486, Isabel de Viseu marries Richard III of England.
Her young sons Jaime and Dinis, the older just seven and the younger barely five years old had come with their mother to England, to safety.
And he sends a few emissaries to King Joao II of Portugal and asks for a bride of Lancaster Blood.....
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Richard is widower and needs to remarry to sire an heir.....OTL he had been interested in Joanna of Portugal, sister of Joao II, but she already had taken her clerical vows and had never been interested in marriage....
There are not many other female descendants of Philippa of Lancaster in the best fitting age bracket and currently unmarried left though....to be honest, there
is actually only one and she is a young widow.
Isabel of Viseu had been widowed since the execution of her husband Fernando II, Duke of Braganza in 1483 and also since the family possessions of her husband's family had been confiscated by the King, she had fled with her children to Castile, fearing what further actions her brother-in-law might take to show his Power over all the nobility of Portugal.
Now, this fear was of course based on the fact that her Cousin and brother-in-law Joao II had not only ordered the execution of her husband but also of her older brother Diogo, Duke of Viseu and thus nobody could be sure to not be the next one who might get a shortened lifespan.
Now, OTL Isabel and her kids only returned to Portugal after her younger brother Manuel became King after the death of Joao and only then the riches of husband's family were returned to her and her children.
Now my is, that this could be a Chance for Isabel's sister, Joao II's wife Queen Leonor to see this as a way to protect her younger sister from further harm by her her husband the King and thus somehow gets Joao to agree to put forward the widow Isabel instead of his nun sister Joanna as bride for the King of England.
Richard needs an heir, Isabel had proven her fertility in her first marriage, she is a lot younger than the sister of the King but from the same noble Blood, seeing that Isabel's dad and Joanna's and the King's dad had been brothers and so Richard agrees.
Isabel gets the news in her Castilian exile and even though she feels safe enough there in the Court of her second Cousins Isabella and Ferdinand, she also sees a good Chance for even more safety in a Country which is a bit further away.
And this English King is only seven years older than her, which is a nice change from her first husband who was a good twenty-nine years her senior.
Plus, she gets to be Queen too.
So, she sends letters of agreement though under the Condition that her surviving Children (a few had been lost to the then typical early childhood illnesses) either can come with her or get otherwise protected.
Both Kings grumble at that condition but Richard really wants to marry a woman with Lancaster blood and she is the best there is left and Joao wants to get done with Braganza related problem and so he looks over the confiscated possessions, takes a nice portion of money and Jewelry from it and declares it to be the dowry of his sister-in-law and Richard agrees that that. The Braganza kids each receive a nice sum and jewelry too from Joao as compensation for their confiscated inheritance but their name becomes forbidden forever in Portugal.
And so Richard agrees (the dowry is a really really mouthwatering amount of money and jewelry and he had just won a very costly War)
In the late days of 1486, Isabel de Viseu marries Richard III of England.
Her young sons Jaime and Dinis, the older just seven and the younger barely five years old had come with their mother to England, to safety.
