I've finished updating the thread. The Republics section needs filling, and the Miaphysites, Muslims and all varieties of heretics need some more suggestions as well.
You didn't even get all of it. That blind ninety year old man fought at the sack of Constantinople. And won. Eat your heart out, John the Blind.Venice
Enrico I Dandolo, 1192-1205: The fantastically old (in his 90s!) blind (possibly by the Byzantines?) Doge that diverted the 4th Crusade to Constantinople. You can do no such thing in game, but you can still feel free to be a sneaky, profit-minded jerk while wearing your "Crusader" trait proudly.
P.S. Enrico wasn't blinded by the Byzantines. He almost certainly lost his sight gradually as the result of a blow to the head.
You didn't even get all of it. That blind ninety year old man fought at the sack of Constantinople. And won. Eat your heart out, John the Blind.
P.S. Enrico wasn't blinded by the Byzantines. He almost certainly lost his sight gradually as the result of a blow to the head.
This thread should be stickied.
EDIT: generalolaf, can we copy the first post (with a link back) and put it on CK II Wiki?
He wasn't a bastard, but his bastard trait won't be removed unless Paradox decide to implement proper cadet branches; until then, he needs to be a bastard so he can't inherit his family's Angevin possessions in Jerusalem. This rule has been applied to certain other cadet branch founders, such as Welf Guelph.Play as the founder of the Plantagenet Dynasty and try to claim England from your small duchy! If his bastard trait is removed, which it should be, since he wasn't illegitimate, you can marry Matilda, the Daughter of the still-living Henry I of England. This will give any children born to you a claim on the kingdom of England. If you play your cards right, Henry will die without a male heir, leaving the kingdom to Matilda, who is your new wife. This means that your children will inherit England!
He wasn't a bastard, but his bastard trait won't be removed unless Paradox decide to implement proper cadet branches; until then, he needs to be a bastard so he can't inherit his family's Angevin possessions in Jerusalem. This rule has been applied to certain other cadet branch founders, such as Welf Guelph.
Sweden, Kingdom of
1 Jan 1276 - Magnus III, Birger Jarl's son, nicknamed Ladulas (Barnlock)
Duchy of Ostergotland
1 Jan 1166 - Magnus Minneskold, Birger Jarl's father
16 May 1214 - Birger Jarl, who is said to have build Stockholm and who led the Second Swedish Crusade into Finland
I feel like there should be a reference to the Crusades Trilogy and the follow-up novel somewhere in there