WI:Empress Matilda has a children with Henry V of HRE

What if Empress Matilda has a children with Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire, would she try to marry one of her children with that of Stephen of Blois?
 
It's a solution, especially if she had a single daughter. That said, they'd probably be more focused on the HRE and the threat of absorbing England into the HRE might actually strengthen Stephen's cause (unless Henry V was still alive at Henry II's death, thus inheriting the throne jure uxoris).
 
It's a solution, especially if she had a single daughter. That said, they'd probably be more focused on the HRE and the threat of absorbing England into the HRE might actually strengthen Stephen's cause (unless Henry V was still alive at Henry II's death, thus inheriting the throne jure uxoris).

Matilda might turn out into a Juana la Loca analogue later on and her son pulling a Charles V..
 
What if Empress Matilda has a children with Henry V of the Holy Roman Empire, would she try to marry one of her children with that of Stephen of Blois?
Depends, would the Church of the time be willing to countenance the marriage of first cousins? As Velasco says if she had a single daughter and could arrange it that would neatly solve the problem - she would be ineligible to inherit any territories in the Empire thanks to Salic law or be elected to the Imperial crown and so would have only a, potentially tenuous, claim on England. The question would then become what effects does the Anarchy not occurring have on England?
 
It's a solution, especially if she had a single daughter. That said, they'd probably be more focused on the HRE and the threat of absorbing England into the HRE might actually strengthen Stephen's cause (unless Henry V was still alive at Henry II's death, thus inheriting the throne jure uxoris).
If Henry V was alive after Henry I's death, he would rule England as King De Jure uxoris but would France try to confiscate Normandy.
 
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