It was suggested that the twins had genuinely existed but had been joined at the hip only rather than at both the hip and shoulder, and that they had lived in the 16th rather than the 12th century.
В конце XIX столетия было выдвинуто предположение о том, что близнецы действительно существовали, но соединялись только в области бедра и жили не в XII, а в XVI веке.