As a Muslim ruler, you cannot replace your Court Mullah unless you transfer him to be under another vassal.
I'm not talking about the head of the religion, I'm talking about my personal religious head. When I hover over my character's religion (Orthodox) it says my religious head is the Ecumenical Patriarch, and it won't let me excommunicate anyone under Rome (which is how I discovered this).
I have had multiple Ecclesiarchs with no change to my religious head (or to the head of the non-pentarchy sections of the empire) including the Ecumenical Patriarch and (currently) the Patriarch of Rome (I've also had a couple of other bishops in the role). All pentarchs including the Ecumenical Patriarch are in my realm, and Rome and Constantinople are both direct vassals.First of all, who is your Court Chaplain? Also, is the Patriarch independent?
Sure, that's how the religion should work, but it's not. You can only request excommunications from your religious head, even if (as I do) you live right next door to the Holy See in Rome. That much I know. What I'm trying to figure out is why my head is Constantinople rather than Rome.If there is no autocephalous bishop that is not under your control, you should have a monopoly on the religion. Also, since they are your vassals, they SHOULD not be able to refuse your request to excommunicate.
As the Duke of Salerno I have a de jure claim on Amalfi, which is a republic. I take it and give it to a son. Now he has a "wrong government type" malus in terms of his opinion of me.
Can I do anything about this?
Nope. As long as you get mayors to count-level and above, you will get that -30 wrong government type penalty.
I'm the Emir of Damascus (Muslim/Sword of Islam). My child just reached the age of 6. I have no wards currently. I wanted to educate the child myself but I don't appear on the list of people when I try to educate the child. I've also noticed I don't appear on the list of possible generals but I can freely nominate other people in my emirate to the job. Near the beginning of the game I could lead armies.
Is this because I am now humble? wroth? Is this a bug?
Another oddity is I can't seem to replace my Court Mullah. The explanation says I can't replace him because "is NOT Muslim". However I'm Shia and the Mullah is Shia as well.
I think I'm missing something about pagan reformation here. I've got a Slavic Russia game starting and just reformed the Slavic faith on my previous ruler, and with my current I've upped crown authority to medium, thinking this would let me revoke titles from my Suomenusko vassals without penalty now, but that isn't the case. Can reformed pagans not revoke titles from vassals of other religions or only revoke from non-pagans or something? And another thing, crusades were triggered early and I got the popup about Slavic great holy wars from the High Priest.. but its been several decades and he has yet to declare one. Is there supposed to be a way to request one? I haven't seen one on diplo screens.
More than anything though I thought going to med crown authority once reformed would let me revoke those titles freely.. now I've got a horde of even angrier Suomenusko counts.
I believe that only works for infidels, so in your case it'd only work for non-pagans.
I don't have the details to hand, but I thought it was any co-religionist of the defender within diplomatic range of him (i.e. most of Europe.) Happy to be corrected, though.
How is it determined, who can join in Holy War defense? Any co-religionist (of the defender) who borders me, borders the defender, or is it calculated from the defender's capital or from the targeted duchy?
I don't think that's the case, otherwise Holy War is pretty useless CB unless the target is really alone. There is shorter limit, I'm sure, I just want to know how short/long range it is.
I don't know the rule, but I can tell you that it's not borders with the attacker, as I've had many a holy war in the holy land where land powers in Europe joined me, and that pretty much excludes distance from targeted duchy. Some of these were as Rome (capital still Constantinople) with men joining from the British Isles and northern Europe, so it's also clearly not based on the defender's capital. It could be border with the defender, I can't rule this one out from memory alone.
It's hardly useless, no matter who we're talking can join. You have to wait until the religious target is embroiled in some other conflict, preferably one amongst co-religionists. They also take many other things to account, like opinion of the ruler they would join, their own internal state, etc, so just because they CAN join doesn't mean they're at all likely to do so.