WI: Empress Matilda has a surviving daughter by Henry V?

What if, when the Emperor Henry V died in 1125, he left a living daughter by his wife Matilda of Normandy?

What rights would this girl have to the Salian dynasty's domains?
What rights would this girl have to the thrones of England and Normandy?
How would this affect Matilda's remarriage and the civil war over England with Stephen of Blois?
 
What if, when the Emperor Henry V died in 1125, he left a living daughter by his wife Matilda of Normandy? What rights would this girl have to the Salian dynasty's domains?
None: 'Salic Law', remember?

What rights would this girl have to the thrones of England and Normandy?
That was before the rules on succession were (at least in theory) fixed: How much 'right' she had would depend on whether any acknowledged King (or Queen Regnant) of England or Duke of Normandy named her as an heir and managed to get the nobility to accept this. Remember that it didn't work very well IOTL when Henry I of England & Normandy tried naming Matilda herself as his heir.

How would this affect Matilda's remarriage and the civil war over England with Stephen of Blois?
Impossible to say for sure.
 
None: 'Salic Law', remember?

That was before the rules on succession were (at least in theory) fixed: How much 'right' she had would depend on whether any acknowledged King (or Queen Regnant) of England or Duke of Normandy named her as an heir and managed to get the nobility to accept this. Remember that it didn't work very well IOTL when Henry I of England & Normandy tried naming Matilda herself as his heir.

Impossible to say for sure.
She could marry one of Stephen's sons...
 
None: 'Salic Law', remember?

Actually, it's not that simple--this is the ACTUAL Salic Law, not France's 'screw wimmen' version. This daughter--let's call her 'Bertha' for convenience--would not inherit any right to her father's titles, BUT she would have a right to his lands. Further, a husband or guardian could inherit those titles in her stead. So... if Henry V lives long and arranges things well enough, he MIGHT be able to pass on his titles to a son-in-law. Though, ironically, this might actually cement Stephen's line in England...
 
Salic Law and the Salians both refer to the Franks, but it doesn't mean that they Salians had to follow this law, but rather that they originated from Franconia (so they were Frankish).
According to Salic law, women weren't allowed to inherit land (but they could inherit other parts of the inheritance), instead the land goes to males.
This leaves room for certain interpretations, either a very strict one, which just prohibits women, another one where inheritance can go through the female line, but can not go to women or women can inherit in the absence of men. In case of the latter those lands might end up being ruled iure uxoris by her (later) husband though.

Anyway a daughter of the last Salian ruler could pass the Salian (allodial) inheritance to her son or her husband. This would leave room for which dynasty in the Holy Roman Empire would be deemed suitable by Holy Roman Emperor Henry V? His sister Agnes had firstly married into the house of Hohenstaufen and secondly the house of Babenberg, so they are probably too closely related.
 
Salic Law and the Salians both refer to the Franks, but it doesn't mean that they Salians had to follow this law, but rather that they originated from Franconia (so they were Frankish).
According to Salic law, women weren't allowed to inherit land (but they could inherit other parts of the inheritance), instead the land goes to males.
This leaves room for certain interpretations, either a very strict one, which just prohibits women, another one where inheritance can go through the female line, but can not go to women or women can inherit in the absence of men. In case of the latter those lands might end up being ruled iure uxoris by her (later) husband though.

Anyway a daughter of the last Salian ruler could pass the Salian (allodial) inheritance to her son or her husband. This would leave room for which dynasty in the Holy Roman Empire would be deemed suitable by Holy Roman Emperor Henry V? His sister Agnes had firstly married into the house of Hohenstaufen and secondly the house of Babenberg, so they are probably too closely related.

See that's what happen when you try to post about actual Salic Law from memory.. (I remember thinking after I posted it 'wait, did I just flip that?')

The point is, it won't be as easy as 'She's a woman, and therefore doesn't count'. What was set up in France was more about what the elite in France wanted than what the law actually said.
 
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