AHC: Flanderised England

After the Norman Conquest have the Count of Flanders plausibly become King of England.
The most plausible and closest after the Conquest wins the most professor cookies.
 
Stupid Flanders.

Does it have to be someone who is only the Count of Flanders? Charles the Bold had a claim on the English throne...
 
The Battle of Cassel, in 1071, is a bit bloodier for the House of Flanders. Rather than just Arnulf III dying, allowing his uncle Robert I to take the county, Robert is slain too. Arnulf's brother, Baldwin II of Hainault, also dies at about the same time. This leaves a power vacuum, and, hey, Arnulf's uncle by marriage is William the Conqueror! One of William's sons is a credible candidate for the county, then, and can accede to England as soon as his father dies.
 
Curthose's son William Clito was made Count of Flanders- if Clito's still alive when Henry I dies without a male heir he could try something, especially if he's managed to consolidate his somewhat tenuous hold on Flanders in the interim.
 
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