[muawiyah]

The caveman diet ~ definitely a factor. Now, to his chilluns' ~ they seem to have suffered from indeterminate infertility ~ a totally different condition but fully explainable if Henry had some non-Gothic, non-Gaellic, non-Frankish ancestors in the mix ~ perhaps a Finn or Sa'ami.

The first Vasa King is just a generation ahead of Henry, and he had a Great Grandmother with Bourbon "titles" ~ so reciprocity could have brought Henry's Great Grandfather a clear blue eyed platinum blond beauty in the deal, and WHAMMO ~ indeterminate infertility.

[ReverendJames]

I’m not too much into his history but how much inbreeding was going on then? Like the Tsar’s of Russia? Hemophilia in there perhaps?