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I am currently reading Josephine Wilkinson's biography of the young Richard III and she mentions that George of Clarence was mooted as a husband for Mary of Burgundy before Margaret of York ever married Charles of Burgundy. Now I know for a fact that Margaret of York was keen to marry her brother to her stepdaughter once Isabel Neville died, so that's twice the match was mooted.

What if it had actually gone ahead in 1477, after Isabel Neville died in the December of 1476? What might that have done for the House of York, if Clarence had become jure uxoris Duke of Burgundy? In the period leading up to Edward's death, but most especially in 1483, when Edward IV died? And what would it have done for Burgundy. George and Mary both seem to have been fertile OTL, so I'm assuming they would have had kids, which would have kept Burgundy out of the HRE for at least another generation...

Thoughts?
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