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The two sisters of Elizabeth of York who left no surviving issue (unless one interprets that Cecily left by her third marriage to Mr. Kymbe). Cecily had two daughters by her second husband, Elizabeth (b.1487, d.bef.1498) and Anne (d.1499). There may have been a son as well, the sources conflict. Elizabeth was betrothed to Margaret Beaufort's stepgrandson, Thomas Stanley (future 3e earl of Derby) apparently.

While Anne's childbearing history was almost as tragic. She had four children of whom two sons (Henry and William) and an unnamrd daughter died at birth (not even dates survive for them), while her eldest(?), named Thomas for his father, was born in 1496 and died at age 12 in 1508.

Henry VIII's only contemporaneous cousins growing up were the Courtenay kids and the Poles. And we all see how paranoid he was about THEM. Cecily's daughters could have interesting uses as proxy princesses for Henry VII in a similar way to how he'd previously offered his younger sisters-in-law abroad or Richard III had offered his de la Pole nieces. (Note I don't say Henry WILL do this, but he COULD simply use them as diplomatic counters). I wonder if Norfolk will be QUITE as trusted if he has a son with Yorkist blood? If his daughter were of an age, might he even push her instead of his niece, Ms Boleyn? (yes, I know butterflies)

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