WI Empress Matilda and Emperor Henry V of HRE have a son

WI Empress Matilda and Emperor Henry V of HRE have a son, whowould that son marry would he marry Eleanor of Aquitaine or have some conflict with France once he inherits England.
 
You're assuming he would be the heir outright.
At lot depends on the circumstances of a surviving son.
Matilda would probably be able to have children from c.1118 (14yo) but we'll assume a son between 1120-1125, so after William drowns.

This could affect the Anarchy as Henry I now has a direct grandson and the nobles might be happier with Matilda in the Regency rather than Queen.

It also affects whether Matilda has a second marriage following her return home in 1125 if she now has the heir to the throne, Henry may decide that the succession is more important than peace with Anjou.
 
You're assuming he would be the heir outright.
At lot depends on the circumstances of a surviving son.
Matilda would probably be able to have children from c.1118 (14yo) but we'll assume a son between 1120-1125, so after William drowns.

This could affect the Anarchy as Henry I now has a direct grandson and the nobles might be happier with Matilda in the Regency rather than Queen.

She wouldn't even necessarily have top be Regent.

That job could be given to her half-brother Robert of Gloucester. A bastard couldn't be King, but he could serve as Regent. There were no settled rules about that, as England hadn't had one since the Conquest.
 
She wouldn't even necessarily have top be Regent.

That job could be given to her half-brother Robert of Gloucester. A bastard couldn't be King, but he could serve as Regent. There were no settled rules about that, as England hadn't had one since the Conquest.

Not necessarily Regent I grant you but involved in the Regency Council.
Considering how intensely she kept after the throne OTL she'll not accept being sidelined ATL.
 
I want to start a timeline where in Geoffrey the Handsome marries Eleanor of Aquitaine and Matilda has a son with Henry V of HRE.
 
There's more than England and Normandy involved. Henry V was the last of the Salian line; a legitimate son of his would presumably have succeeded as Emperor, rather than Lothair of Supplinburg being elected. The Emperor inheriting Normandy and thus owing feudal duty to the French king would have been problematic though, and so for different reasons would have been him inheriting England. Matilda might well have been married off to Geoffrey just the same, with a view to producing another son who could in due course inherit England and Normandy without complications, well apart from the complications of securing succession through Matilda in the first place. Or more likely Matilda would have remained in Germany to exercise regency for her son, for which there was ample if not always encouraging precedent. Say the son had been born in 1118, when Matilda would be sixteen; he would then be six or seven at his father's death, so a long regency ahead, but he would not be the first minor to succeed to Germany, his paternal grandfather Henry IV having done so not so very many years before, and there is no real reason to doubt that he would at least initially follow his father on the throne. The idea of Eleanor marrying Geoffrey of Anjou no doubt arises from persistent and not implausible rumours that she and Geoffrey had an affair during her marriage to Louis VII (which if true made her later marriage to Geoffrey's son uttterly uncanonical). What must however be taken into account is that Louis VI, no one's idea of a fool, was Eleanor's guardian and hardly likely to marry a ward with such a vast inheritance to anyone but his own heir.

So I would say the wider European consequences of Matilda having a surviving son from her first marriage need considering for the original proposition, and a way round Louis VI's guardianship has to be found for the second one; longer life for William X would be the most obvious route for the latter. You could have that, Matilda's son reigning in Germany as presumably Henry VI while his mother remained there and did not marry again, or did to some German lord so as to gain support for her son, and Stephen or another nephew being accepted by Henry I as heir to England and Normandy. Or relieve some of the complications by having William Adelin survive. Would all create quite an interesting situation in all three of England, France and the Empire, and possibly a better and more peaceful one.
 
There's more than England and Normandy involved. Henry V was the last of the Salian line; a legitimate son of his would presumably have succeeded as Emperor, rather than Lothair of Supplinburg being elected. The Emperor inheriting Normandy and thus owing feudal duty to the French king would have been problematic though, and so for different reasons would have been him inheriting England. Matilda might well have been married off to Geoffrey just the same, with a view to producing another son who could in due course inherit England and Normandy without complications, well apart from the complications of securing succession through Matilda in the first place. Or more likely Matilda would have remained in Germany to exercise regency for her son, for which there was ample if not always encouraging precedent. Say the son had been born in 1118, when Matilda would be sixteen; he would then be six or seven at his father's death, so a long regency ahead, but he would not be the first minor to succeed to Germany, his paternal grandfather Henry IV having done so not so very many years before, and there is no real reason to doubt that he would at least initially follow his father on the throne. The idea of Eleanor marrying Geoffrey of Anjou no doubt arises from persistent and not implausible rumours that she and Geoffrey had an affair during her marriage to Louis VII (which if true made her later marriage to Geoffrey's son uttterly uncanonical). What must however be taken into account is that Louis VI, no one's idea of a fool, was Eleanor's guardian and hardly likely to marry a ward with such a vast inheritance to anyone but his own heir.

So I would say the wider European consequences of Matilda having a surviving son from her first marriage need considering for the original proposition, and a way round Louis VI's guardianship has to be found for the second one; longer life for William X would be the most obvious route for the latter. You could have that, Matilda's son reigning in Germany as presumably Henry VI while his mother remained there and did not marry again, or did to some German lord so as to gain support for her son, and Stephen or another nephew being accepted by Henry I as heir to England and Normandy. Or relieve some of the complications by having William Adelin survive. Would all create quite an interesting situation in all three of England, France and the Empire, and possibly a better and more peaceful one.
But what if Eleanor of Aquitaine married the son of Henry V and Matilda what would happen to France?
 
Well, if you look at the possibility of the same man ruling in Germany including the Netherlands and parts of present-day eastern France, north Italy, England, Normandy, Poitou and Aquitaine I think France, as in the actual domain personally ruled by the French kings, might be in a mite of trouble. I also think that the King of France of the day, all the other French feudal lords, and the Papacy, not to mention the more prominent lords of the Empire, would go all out to prevent such a concentration of power happening, and it most likely would not happen.
 
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