Concerning inheritance

[Christiandk]

Hey guys!

I bought Crusader Kings a few days a go ( after having read AARs, I was droooooling ).

Now I have a question regarding inheritance of titles!

What would the necessary conditions be for me to get a foreign title? Say I wanted to become the King of Denmark as Sweden without having to invade him, how would that come about then?


Christiandk.


PS:

Is it possible to change the Capital of your kingdom?

 

[enf91]

You have your heir (or, depending on your age, yourself) marry his firstborn daughter (if he has a semisalic law). Wait for him to kick the bucket (or, if your rich enough, assassinate him) and PRESTO! Inherited title.
Your capital is set as the richest province in your demesne when you die, gain a higher title, or under some other circumstances Veldmarschallk might know. Otherwise, no.

 

[Auvar]

The capital of a duchy or kingdom is located in the richest province that falls within your primary title and shares your ruler's culture and religion. If you don't actually possess any provinces within your primary title region (i.e. you are King of Ireland without any counties in Ireland in your demesne, or your primary title is of the non-recreatable variety), the capital will simply be in the wealthiest county that shares your culture and religion. (And failing that too, it will simply be in the richest province).

I'm not sure exactly when it resets - death will do it, but I'm pretty sure it can shift during a reign as one province becomes more wealthy or a rich province converts to your culture and/or religion.

 

[Ivan Rogov]

You have your heir (or, depending on your age, yourself) marry his firstborn daughter (if he has a semisalic law). Wait for him to kick the bucket (or, if your rich enough, assassinate him) and PRESTO! Inherited title.
Your capital is set as the richest province in your demesne when you die, gain a higher title, or under some other circumstances Veldmarschallk might know. Otherwise, no.

This will work...if a.) your heir is a few months older than the daughter, and you wait until she turns 16 and act quickly, and hope the father accepts the proposal; or b.) your heir is a year or more older than the daughter, and you keep your heir unmarried and wait for her to turn 16, act quickly and hope...

Assassinating a king and not getting caught is extremely difficult. Your combined intrigue has to be significantly higher than his.

 

[TempestDK]

You have your heir (or, depending on your age, yourself) marry his firstborn daughter (if he has a semisalic law). Wait for him to kick the bucket (or, if your rich enough, assassinate him) and PRESTO! Inherited title.
Your capital is set as the richest province in your demesne when you die, gain a higher title, or under some other circumstances Veldmarschallk might know. Otherwise, no.

Not entirely correct.

It will never be the husband of the King's daughter that inherits, but the son of that union (your grandson).

But as said, the realm needs to have semi-salic law, and he has to have NO living sons (you can help with that). The line is traced through his oldest daughter, and if you marry yourself or your heir to her, and they produce a son, then that son will inherit.

So in case you marry your son to the oldest daughter of the King of Denmark, you have to wait two generations before you can get the title.

Of course you will have to make sure that no son of KoD is alive when the king kicks the bucket, and that his oldest daughter produces a son with you(r heir).

It is a risky tactic, where all your years of planning could be ruined if the king suddenly late in life gets an heir or his daughter simply refuses to produce a son.

The capital moves as Auvar describes it, and it will change whenever the conditions change. So if you have two provinces with almost the same income, and one suddenly becomes a bit wealthier than the other, then that will be the capitol ... until the first one gets a new building that raises it above the other and the capitol shifts again. This situation will be rare though.

 

[Gwyn ap Nud]

On this note, I had a bug in my game where it thought that my deceased eldest daughter was in fact my son, and thus her son, not of the same dynasty as me, was my grandson. So even after I had 2 proper sons, on Semi-Salic it was about to give my throne to some half-Occitan Dane name Jorn! So I had to assassinate him, because of that bug. No harm done, I suppose.

 

[Auvar]

The capital moves as Auvar describes it, and it will change whenever the conditions change. So if you have two provinces with almost the same income, and one suddenly becomes a bit wealthier than the other, then that will be the capitol ... until the first one gets a new building that raises it above the other and the capitol shifts again. This situation will be rare though.

This happened to me in a game starting out as the Count of Lubeck. Having gained control of all the culturally Wendish lands, as well of most of Denmark and Saxony-Brunswick, I decided to make myself a non-recreatable title as "King of the Wends." It happened, however, that the incomes of Lubeck and Brandenburg (both part of my demesne, both Wend and Catholic, same base income) were nearly identical, with the capital shifting between them multiple times each year as province events occurred and new buildings were discovered and built. My impression was that the turning of the month tended to reset it, but that might just have been coincidence.

It was interesting but messed up my research a bit, as I'd have to change my research goals every time it shifted to account for the fact that I'd already discovered things in one province that weren't even close to spreading to the other.