Duchess of Toscana in 1066

[Sam L]

I have a question. I'm playing a new game as this character starting in 1066. I noticed that she's the only person in her dynasty. How can she ensure that dynasty continues? She's married and now pregnant but the children will belong to the husband's dynasty. Has anyone played as Toscana in 1066?

 

[Veldmaarschalk]

I have a question. I'm playing a new game as this character starting in 1066. I noticed that she's the only person in her dynasty. How can she ensure that dynasty continues? She's married and now pregnant but the children will belong to the husband's dynasty. Has anyone played as Toscana in 1066?

You can survive (= continue playing) if you don't marry when you play her. Once she dies without an heir, the game will create one (a so-called 'country-cousin). This character (who will always be a male) will then be your next ruler. Beside his family-name he will not be related to the former Duchess.

Also if you stay unmarried, then there is a chance that the duchess will get a bastard, who can become legitimate and then become your heir.

 

[Sam L]

You can survive (= continue playing) if you don't marry when you play her. Once she dies without an heir, the game will create one (a so-called 'country-cousin). This character (who will always be a male) will then be your next ruler. Beside his family-name he will not be related to the former Duchess.

Also if you stay unmarried, then there is a chance that the duchess will get a bastard, who can become legitimate and then become your heir.

Thanks. I've never played as a woman before. This is interesting. So that means this saved game is doomed as she's already pregnant. :rofl: Anyway, I'll play it out. I'll know what to do for next time. Thanks.

 

[jordarkelf]

You can also edit the savegame and make her dynasty the same as her husband's, that way you can continue playing.
In DV there is no longer a chance of getting inbred children this way as inbred no longer relies on dynasty, but now checks ancestry.

 

[wobbit]

Or, at a pinch, just switch to playing the character that inherits when Matilda of Tuscany dies.

 

[sjones25]

^This.

If she has a son, just give him a county and make sure he is your heir, then save and load it up as that county once the Duchess starts getting old. Then, when she dies, you're Count becomes the Duke of Toscana.

 

[unmerged(80455)]

Or, at a pinch, just switch to playing the character that inherits when Matilda of Tuscany dies.

This is true. To make this easier, you can edit your message settings from the option menu and have the game pause when your character dies. If you don't hit enter or click on the confirmation, you have a chance to pause it (and see her greyed out portrait), save and then reload as the heir.

 

[Drachenfire]

Thanks. I've never played as a woman before. This is interesting.

This is SUCH a loaded statement. Though it will be hard, I shall resist all urges to capitalize on it for my own personal amusement.



errrg. Its hard.




Anyway,

By the by, right now in vanilla there is not the ability to continue to play after a female characters without the above suggestions. In vanilla CK, a female can not inherit the throne. Compleatly ahistorical, as most of Spain, Aquitainia, Brittany, and comital France did practice male preference cognatic primogeniture.... women inherit after her brothers and their children. The Basque nobility and the free families of the Kingdom of Navarra practiced absolute cognatic primogeniture... where the eldest inherited title and land regardless of gender.

The only mode that currently alows females to inherit is the DVIP... but the event in place there still doesnt work to satisfaction for the AI. You will have to go into events and further mode that using the instructions in Damsels Not In Distress. The Damsels Not In Distress thread also offers stratigy suggestions when playing with female rulers.