Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-10390252-20150427084942/@comment-24891101-20150601051239

Lancaster, as I have mentioned before, has a higher affinity to name Ruby/Cardin. The notion comes from the War of the Roses, with the red Lancaster rose. It's intended to reference the Lancaster's connection to France and the Lancastrian de facto kingship of parts of France, combined with the rose motif, but it falls short, since Henry Beaufort, Cardinal Winchester, was the son of the House of Lancaster's founder. The connection to Joan of Arc is therefore much more tenuous, and arguably oppositional.