Here is Annette Carson‘s investigation into the legal background behind the legitimation of the four Beauforts, a case with obvious implications for 1483 and the succession but some differences as well.
Indeed, to what extent did Henry IV, with four healthy sons and two fit daughters want his half-siblings to be among his heirs?
Unless it refers to existing descendants and hypothetical future descendants, susceptam et suscipiendam has no meaning. Susceptam is a perfect passive participle (“birth/childbirth”), therefore it must refer to a completed action; Suscipiendam is a future passive participle (“that will be born/begun”). There is no need to declare that only children born in marriage are legal. Therefore, the wording specifies both past and future children;
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If Richard II wanted, he could give Beaufort land and titles, without requiring them to be born into a legal marriage. The parliamentary bill clearly represents the inheritance rights of Beaufort and his father at any level
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