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I was wondering what the "plus" would be to having a inheritance that can trace through females? From what it sounds like, it would make the blood line out of wack should a female be able to trace inheritance.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
 
I was wondering what the "plus" would be to having a inheritance that can trace through females? From what it sounds like, it would make the blood line out of wack should a female be able to trace inheritance.

Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

Well it isn't much of a plus to you, unless the female it traces through is of your dynasty and so are her kids (meaning that she has to marry within her own family). But if other realms have this, then you can get someone from your dynasty to inherit if the conditions are right.

F.x. You marry your heir to the oldest (living) daughter of a duke who have no (living) sons. Inheritance is then traced through the daughter to any sons your heir might sire with her. Meaning that your grand-son will be the heir to the Ducal title, and will eventually also inherit your realm (after his father).

For this to work, the Duke cannot have any living sons when he dies. If he gets some sons later on in life, you will have to "help" them get non-living ;) ... or hope they die before their father, and do not sire sons themselves.
 
There isn't really any advantage to having it, except for historical and roleplaying purposes. I generally keep my inheritance laws the same by default unless I really have no other way to get a member of my own dynasty as my heir.
 
If you have a large dynasty, and only daughters, then it might be advantageous to let your eldest inherit and as Tempest said marry her to a cousin of your dynasty. Might also be good opportunity to reunite some family land (as was done historically). The only other way for female rulers to pass along the family land intact is to have a bastard by event and hope too that he survives (always he-bastards in CK1) and can get a legitimization event before you die.

And it is fun to marry the heiress of an old duke or king. The difference between the modded female inheritance and the vanilla semisalic law is that when your father-in-law dies, your wife rules in her own right rather than your (probably infant) son inheriting. But it is a waiting game from the wedding date, hoping that the old guy has no more legitimate sons, that he does not lose his titles in a war, that something else awful does not transpire. Remember, too, that the two closest heirs inherit claims on all the titles, so even if your infant brother-in-law inherits, then your wife and eldest child still inherits claims. Problem is that a baby has problems ruling a three or four province demesne and gives away titles to whoever is willing to play peekaboo with him.