Queen Margaret had entered into negotiations with…

Queen Margaret had entered into negotiations with King Henry IV of England in 1402 about the possibility of an alliance between the Kingdom of England and the Nordic union.

The proposal had been for a double wedding, whereby Eric would marry Henry's daughter, Philippa, and Henry's son, the Prince of Wales and future King Henry V, would marry Eric's sister, Catherine.

The English side wants these weddings to seal an offensive alliance between the Nordic kingdoms and England, which could lead to the involvement of the Nordic union on the English side in the ongoing Hundred Years' War against the Kingdom of France.

Margaret, having thus far led a consistent foreign policy of not getting entangled in binding alliances and foreign wars, rejects the English proposals.

The double wedding never comes off, but successful negotiations result in Eric's wedding to the thirteen-year-old Philippa at Lund on October 26, 1406, in tandem with by a purely defensive alliance with England.