What if Henry I was on White Ship instead of William Adelin?

What if King Henry I accepted to go on the White Ship and let his son use his previous traveling arrangments. So what would happen if King Henry I drowns instead of William Adelin.
 
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Probably no English Civil War between Empress Mathilda and Stephen of Blois. William Adelin ascends the English throne as William III, thus altering the bloodlines of English Kings.

Mathilda also probably doesn't marry Geoffrey of Anjou. William Adelin was already married to Matilda of Anjou, Geoffrey's sister: unless Henry I wants a double-marriage with Anjou, we won't have any Plantagenêts ITTL. Question is: who might Mathilda marry after HRE Henry V in such a scenario?
 
Probably no English Civil War between Empress Mathilda and Stephen of Blois. William Adelin ascends the English throne as William III, thus altering the bloodlines of English Kings.

Mathilda also probably doesn't marry Geoffrey of Anjou. William Adelin was already married to Matilda of Anjou, Geoffrey's sister: unless Henry I wants a double-marriage with Anjou, we won't have any Plantagenêts ITTL. Question is: who might Mathilda marry after HRE Henry V in such a scenario?

I was actually thinking of her marrying the son of Berthrade of Montfort with Philip I of France, the uncle of his OTL Husband.
 
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