Agnatic Gavelkind: is this WAD?

[Sleight of Hand]

I'm the count of Vermandois and Amiens, and married to the countess of Vexin (as I just pushed her claim and won), so in theory my eldest son Eudes should inherit at least two of these (one directly from each parent) and then presumably lose the third title to a brother due to Gavelkind.

However, he just died and so my heir is my next son, Carloman.

The issue is that Eudes had a legitimate son who in Primogeniture terms would be the senior male heir.

I rarely play Gavelkind so I'm not 100% on its mechanics, but should the standard heir by Primogeniture not still be the primary heir under Gavelkind? I don't understand why it would go to Carloman, when he has a surviving nephew by his elder brother. I'm pretty sure that in History that's how it would have always been -- for example with Arthur of Brittany after Richard the Lionheart died.

Can someone comment on this? It may well be WAD, but it seems like it shouldn't be.

 

[cybrxkhan]

I've also had this issue. In one game I played as a Byzantine duke, I had (if I remember correctly) 2 sons who themselves had several children, including a few healthy sons and daughters. Yet, the second son was the second heir, instead of my first son's sons. Even more curiously, my 3rd heir was my sister's eldest son, who was of my dynasty (via matrilineal marriage) and also the heir to the Byzantine Empire. I don't remember exactly our family relationships with each other as that game was from almost a month ago (the 3rd-in-line might have been my daughter's son aka grandson), but I just wanted to bring this up because I have had a similar issue to what Sleight of Hand described above.

 

[Voy]

Issue? Your children should inherit before your grandchildren, isn't that obvious? It must be bug that my grandchildren still think they can get what their father was suppose to inherit...

 

[Dracko81]

Read the tooltip on gavelkind. It divides your titles amongst you living children. If you have no living children it reverts to primogeniture.

 

[Sleight of Hand]

Read the tooltip on gavelkind. It divides your titles amongst you living children. If you have no living children it reverts to primogeniture.

Ah, okay then. Not a bug. Thanks.