De jure drift of duchies

[soulfreezer]

I'm still new to the game and have some problems with the de jure drift of my duchies (or rather the duchies of my vassals). I'm currently playing the Emperor of Britannia, controlling all of Britannia and parts of France. Before I created Britannia my primary title was the Kingdom of England and the duchies that belong de jure to the Kingdom of Wales actually started drifting towards England. But after becoming the Emperor of Britannia the duchies are now drifting back towards Wales. Does de jure drift of duchies not work if the primary title is an empire? Is this WAD? Is there any way how I can get those duchies to drift into England while still holding the empire title?

 

[JonStryker]

This is sadly how it workds. As soon as you're emperor all your kingdom-drifting will reverse.

It's pretty difficult to intentionally drift anything anywhere after you've become emperor. The only way might be to give a vassal of the drift-target control of the land that should be drifted. If he (and his ancestors) holds on to it for 100 years it will drift over. Meaning either a duke in the target-kingdom or the king of that kingdom.

If you really want to drift duchies do that BEFORE you create the Empire

 

[unmerged(545031)]

My understanding was that once upon a time, you could de jure drift your empire into a kingdom as long as the other kingdoms were destroyed and you only held one (which means you'd actually have to destroy one at some point, as you generally need two to create an empire). Is this no longer the case?

 

[JonStryker]

My understanding was that once upon a time, you could de jure drift your empire into a kingdom as long as the other kingdoms were destroyed and you only held one (which means you'd actually have to destroy one at some point, as you generally need two to create an empire). Is this no longer the case?

As long as you're no emperor you can drift whatever you want

 

[Mods]

Become emperor only when your primary kingdom is already of a good size, you can keep 1 kingdom without negative modifiers as emperor

 

[soulfreezer]

After my vassal the Duke of Lancaster (de jure and de facto part of England) took over the Duchy of Gwynedd, the Duchy of Gwynedd is now de facto part of England and de jure drifting into the Kingdom of England.

So apparently de jure drift of duchies is still possible for emperors, you only need to grant the duke of a de jure duchy the duchy you want to drift. But of couse usually you don't want your vassals to hold multiple duchies...