 Rumours abounded that Catherine planned to marry Edmund Beaufort, Count of Mortain, her late husband's cousin.The Duke of Gloucester was strongly against the match, however, and the Parliament of 1427–8 passed a bill which set forth the provision that if the queen dowager remarried without the king's consent, her husband would forfeit his lands and possessions, although any children of the marriage would not suffer punishment.The king's consent was contingent upon his having attained his majority.