favorite dynastic crisis in british AH

Henry VII - Mary Tudor - Eleanor Brandon - Margaret Clifford - Ferdinando 5th Earl of Derby
Who had three surviving daughters
Anne Stanley Countess of Castlehaven (b1580)
Frances Stanley Countess of Bridgewater (b1583)
and Elizabeth Stanley, Countess of Huntingdon (b1588)
the Derby titles passed to his brother the 6th Earl.

Who is Anne Stanley ??? I am assuming we're looking at a Brandon/Clifford descent, which leaves us with marriage to Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby. His eldest son, Ferdinando, 5th Earl dies 1594 with one daughter, but she would appear to be named Elizabeth. In 1601, she marries Henry Hastings, 5th Earl of Huntingdon, who is already IIRC carrying the Pole Plantagenet succession. Thus, their offspring would unite the neo-Tudor Brandon/Clifford line with the neo-Plantagenet Pole/Hastings line.

Is this Elizabeth, died 20 January 1633, also known as Anne ?

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
Henry VII - Mary Tudor - Eleanor Brandon - Margaret Clifford - Ferdinando 5th Earl of Derby
Who had three surviving daughters
Anne Stanley Countess of Castlehaven (b1580)
Frances Stanley Countess of Bridgewater (b1583)
and Elizabeth Stanley, Countess of Huntingdon (b1588)
the Derby titles passed to his brother the 6th Earl.

Ah, thank you very much ! I will now create her in history upon my database. Pity it wasn't Elizabeth, I liked the idea of uniting the neo-Plantagenet and neo-Tudor lines in her progeny

Best Regards
Grey Wolf
 
Don't despair its thought Anne Stanley's line is extinct - which if that's true then the heirs at law are the descendants of Francis Stanley - which is the Earl of Jersey i think!
 
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