To have children who would be his heirs.
Most kings want to keep their realm in the family, famously Henry VIII spent most of his reign trying to have sons to pass on his crown.
Matilda of flounders
he married Matilda of flaunder
When William the Conqueror was growing up he was called William the B*****d because his parents were not married. After the Battle of Hastings, he was called William the Conqueror because of his take over of England.
William 1 (William th conquerer) married in 1050 to Matilda of flanders , his cousin
Yes - in the original sense that his parents were not married.
They got married in 1053.
William married Matilda of Flanders in 1053 in the chapel at Eu, Normandy (Seine-Maritime).
William was born in 1028 and married Matilda in 1053- he was 25
William the Conqueror and his successors did not
Because his father, Robert I, Duke of Normandy, was not married to Herleva his mother.
William of Normandy became William the Conqueror.
I am not a direct descendant of William the Conqueror. William the Conqueror slept here!