Lurking behind all this was the uncomfortable fact that King Henry and his family had a lesser share of historic royal blood than the Courtenays and Poles between them possessed through their Yorkist ancestry. This mattered all the more to King Henry now that his legitimate heir was a robust one-year-old. History has come to call the autumn debacle the Exeter or Montague Conspiracy. How much actual conspiracy was involved is not clear, but the events were not short of the conspiratorial on all sides.
