For instance, if there is a half brother that has a claim to one of your duchies and you marry him off in a matrilineal marriage, his children will not inherit his claim, though the husband will still keep his own claim. The husband is basically "kicked out" of your dynasty. You can get rid of potential title claim crisis by setting up a matrilineal marriage. Not a very remarkable one, as it is in effect only a few months - two years is quite a lot though.Ī matrilineally marriage means that the husband joins the wife's dynasty and all heirs are of the wife's dynasty. At first I was wondering what caused that, but now I'm quite sure it's a bug. However, it usually takes only a couple of months (well, maybe one year) to return to normal. About 2 years later it returned to normal with that civil war still ongoing.This happens to me usually with every character. The only thing that's happened is Scotland has entered a civil war - but why would this cause the game to suddenly ignore the "eldest inherits" law?Įdit: Really weird. Annoyingly, she's married to the King of France in a patrillineal marriage, so if she were to inherit my titles I presume it would be game over on her death unless I went on an asssasination spree since the heir would not be of my dynasty.
Now, for some random reason, my second eldest has been selected as my heir completely out of the blue, despite being younger. Now, i've got primogenture (spelling?), and the eldest daughter is in a marriage to the King of Scotland (who is also of my dynasty) - the plan being that the eldest child they had would become King of Ireland and Scotland.
Offering peace get's you kicked off the throne, and your new ruler has to deal with rebellions, negative income, and no troops.Īlright, this is weird, not sure if this is a bug. I didn't realize until just now that it's causes belli, and you become everyone's jailhouse. Unless you are prepared for your ass to be handed to you on a silver platter. Probably be able to overcome that later in the game as your power increases.ĭo NOT get excommunicated. Anything that doesn't border your realm gets a diplomacy hit (a big one) for being a distant realm.
You are pretty much restricted at first to just the adjacent counties. (Assuming you create the Kingdom, I wasn't able to get a county to accept when I was a Duke). But from what I've seen, once you have two, the rest of Ireland accepts you when you offer vassalship. If you get 1 county of one, and two counties of the other two, you have causes belli on three more counties without any effort except the usurp fees. But it does give you causes belli on the other counties in the usurped Duchy. You can't usurp a county, it's just for the Duchies and Kingdoms. (I think I had also titled him, I can't remember) After I won, he was my vassal. I married him to someone that was a blood relative and pressed the claim. I was able to get a courtier that had a claim on Ulster and Dublin. I'm not exactly sure how that mechanically falls out. You have to bring the courtiers that you are going to press a claim for into your dynasty. I have to deal with a demesne of 11/4, not sure how I'm going to proceed at this point. (how does THAT happen when you have a genius touch of midas mother). Unfortunately, my King was assassinated or something, and his heir is Slow and has no diplomacy or or Stewardship. I think I need one or two more counties to form the Kingdom. Third ruler in the line has about half of Ireland. I should have waited for the Holy Orders to form. I went to Iberia, but the Muslim hordes overwhelmed me. Scotland and England were united under a single ruler. By the time your heir becomes King of Ireland, it's possible that you have revoked all the titles in Ireland into your demesne and when he takes the throne all he has to deal with is mayors and bishops. After you have established the Kingdom, the independants will usually accept your offer of vassalship. You can roll up Ireland in a single kingship. You need to invite courtier who have claims to titles, invent it with your Chancellor, and use Usurp.