Gavelkind isn't supposed to work this way, is it?

[Choombi]

So I have a demesne of 8, all in the same duchy and 3 of those in my capital county, and my succession is cognatic gavelkind, I have a daughter and a younger son.
Now the weird thing is, the son is only getting one county out of it, shouldn't he be getting more?

 

[Sonmi]

I wouldn't expect someone to complain when gavelkind works in favour of his main heir and successor, to be honest.

Count yourself lucky that the obscure force that is gavelkind favours you, it works in mysterious ways, and might not be too generous on your next character.

 

[RagingJaws]

A Basque Queen of Germany? Madness! I like it!

Did you recently acquire that title? Is your son a newborn? Did a comet pass by? Gavelkind is horrifically insensible, I don't think anyone really knows how it decides who gets what. Really should be fixed, so equal level of titles gets spread around.

 

[Boodas]

In this case Gavelkind is working as designed. Gavelkind for a single King level titles distributes the capital duchy and all counties inside it to the primary heir, the only excepetion is if you don't have any land outside the primary duchy. Flanders has five counties and the two bariones are in Flanders, so all of that will go to the primary heir which is your daughter. Your son gets the one title outside of the capital duchy.

 

[Tatterhood]

In this case Gavelkind is working as designed. Gavelkind for a single King level titles distributes the capital duchy and all counties inside it to the primary heir, the only excepetion is if you don't have any land outside the primary duchy.

I don't think that's the only exception, it always tries to make sure everyone gets something. If there was a third kid, they'd get one of the counties in the capital duchy.

 

[sigeena]

Seems to be WAD.

The key is de-jure duchy, primary kingdom.

If you hold non de-jure counties, they will all go to your secondary heirs. If you have more than 1 kingdom, the non-primary one will go to the secondary heirs as well.

Now if you want to game it, you can set your kingdoms to inherit as Primo, and your Empire as Gavelkind. Now all your titles will always go to your eldest, and no Gavelkind split. Short of creating or gaining a new Empire title.

 

[Ballisticwaffle]

WAD is an iffy term when talking about Gavelkind, but yea, its Working. Its working in a players favor for once, at least there is that.

 

[Choombi]

In this case Gavelkind is working as designed. Gavelkind for a single King level titles distributes the capital duchy and all counties inside it to the primary heir, the only excepetion is if you don't have any land outside the primary duchy. Flanders has five counties and the two bariones are in Flanders, so all of that will go to the primary heir which is your daughter. Your son gets the one title outside of the capital duchy.

Guines is part of the Dubhy of Flanders

 

[Boodas]

Guines is part of the Dubhy of Flanders

That's part of the exception rule. A long time ago, before Paradox changed gavelkind rules, it would have probably split the duchy with the daughter (primary heir) getting the K, C1, C2, C3 & B1: the son (pretender 1) would have gotten D, C4, C5, C6, & B2. Players would complain about this because the game would try to give all children, eligible to inherit, equal amounts of titles, not land. Kingdoms and Duchies each counted as a title even though you can't be a king or duke without counties and this would cause game-overs or players losing their capital to one of their siblings on succession. To rectify this Paradox changed it to divide the titles on even (as even as possible) amounts of counties while giving exemptions in order to keep the capital duchy of Kingdoms and Empires in the hands of the primary ruler as much as possible. Your second child on Cognatic (men and women inherit as equals) getting one county in the capital duchy is correct. If you were only a duke or in this case duchess of Flanders, the duchy would (most likely) be split with the daughter getting the duchy, the primary county, two other counties, plus the two baronies; the son would get the other three counties.

Gavelkind is a bit messy but once you understand it, it becomes arguably the best succession in the game (minus the potential pretender revolts, but I'm sure you know how to handle troublesome siblings)

P.S. a famous example of the old gavelkind I witnessed once as the King of Ireland with three sons. I personally held the kingdom of Ireland, the county of Dublin and a barony in Dublin. On succession I got the kingdom, my second son got the county, and the third son got the barony. Without land the kingdom title was forfeit and I became landless, ending my game instantly. So the new system is way better, not perfect but better.