Is it possible for King Philip I of France to marry a daughter of Harold Godwinson? How would this possible marriage affect the battle of Hastings?
Bee said:Wikipedia's article on Harold has his daughters born in 1053 and 1055; if it's correct, age would be no barrier.
Bee said:If the marriage took place before Hastings, the king could have forbidden William from invading England, with the threat that his Norman estates would be forfeited. William, obviously, could retort something like 'you and whose army' to the challenge, and he would have been right that the royal army wouldn't have been strong enough on its own for the king to enforce the threat.
The other consequence, which doesn't require the marriage to have been before Hastings, is that a son of the marriage will have a claim to the English crown of his own.