Any benefit to giving land to Holy Orders?

[WanderingKnight]

It is not worth, by my opinnion, to give land title to Grandmaster.

I could be wrong, it's now a while since my Jerusalem King game, but IIRC once when he become a vassal of yours when you raise his holly order troops after a while he become annoyed, that you hold his troops for too long, same as any other vassal would do. I am not sure if this how the designer ment to be or it is just an omition, but that's how it was with 1.06b patch.

Since I rarely use my vassal troops, unless it's a question of life or death of my realm and dynasty, this was unpleasent surrprize for me when I noticed it during one of my minor wars.

 

[Alyiakal]

If it's piety you're after, you're probably better off granting the land to the local bishop, thus making him a prince-bishop, but still your vassal. Gives you the same piety and you now have a very tame vassal who is easy to please.

If you're trying to dump off, I find the Pope is a better sucker for that; it's also makes him super happy, which is nice to stave off the threat of being excommunicated...

 

[Tijean]

There a bug when you give land to holy. It have a small chance to turn the holy in primogeniture. There the result :
http://i.imgur.com/BmE7I.jpg?1

It a vanilla game.

 

[Zedwardson]

A not-expected plus of giving land to miltary orders.

I gave the duchy of Seville to the Order off St. Johns. They have fought off 5 wars from north Africa trying to break into Iberia, while me and my extended family own most of the rest of Iberia and are much more secure in the rest of our holdings.

 

[Frozen_Predator]

There a bug when you give land to holy. It have a small chance to turn the holy in primogeniture. There the result :
http://i.imgur.com/BmE7I.jpg?1

It a vanilla game.

You propably gave them a duchy, which they then made their primary.

In my current game both the Hospitallers and the Templars did that after I won Italy and created the Duchies for the prestige and to save time