I noticed that in one game, the duchy of aquitane, but I guess the marriage system is too complicated for me to get it in the time allocated. You can't fabricate claims against other vassals of the same liege (or rather press them through war, I tried), so you are stuck trying to marry into a claim. I am still a rookie at that as with most game concepts. I look every five years for a way, in but unless there is just some random opportunity, I just can't seem to plot a way, as a lot of the time, there ARE no claimants to invite. Any advice on that?
Why does a vassal go indy?
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I noticed that in one game, the duchy of aquitane, but I guess the marriage system is too complicated for me to get it in the time allocated. You can't fabricate claims against other vassals of the same liege (or rather press them through war, I tried), so you are stuck trying to marry into a claim. I am still a rookie at that as with most game concepts. I look every five years for a way, in but unless there is just some random opportunity, I just can't seem to plot a way, as a lot of the time, there ARE no claimants to invite. Any advice on that?
It's not really a bug, since it's there on purpose. Lieges sometimes did grant title to vassals of vassals, thereby making them equal or higher ranked than their former liege. This isn't a violation of the feudal contract, though if they were a de jure liege they'd probably play lip service to them, as William the Conqueror sort of did. You aren't Auvernge's de jure liege as Toulouse though, so it's a bit different. You could just crush him if you want, just go and fabricate a claim.
You CAN fabricate claims on vassals of the same liege. But honestly you'd be better off scheming to get Aquitaine (as long as it's still one massive duchy) to join an independence faction, will the resulting war, wait for them to form the Kingdom, and become their vassal. Then you have all the time in the world to become ruler.
Well, I tried to fabricate one and did, but could not press the claim as it said "X" on some thing to the effect of having the same liege as me. Did I misread that?
Why not just play as him yourself? That way you should see if there is an event happening or any other reason to why he becomes a duke all of a sudden.
Your liege has medium crown authority or more. You'll need to make a faction to decrease crown authority to Limited so you can attack other vassals.