I'm having a problem understanding why I can't press a claim here. I'm starting as WTC in 1066 using SWMH [more details if needed, but this is probably not a bug so not being too technical here], and my wife Mathilda de Flanders gets a weak claim on Royaume de France after her mother, Emma Capet dies. At this point, the king of France is Philippe who is only 18 or 19, and his heir is 13 years old. So I bribed the Spymaster and got the king of France executed, and now the king of France is a male, age 14, Hugues II. He clearly has a regent.
My wife is in my court, since...she's my wife, and there's no Invite to Court option. The mouseover for weak claims says:
"Weak claims can only be pressed against:
-Female rulers if the claimant is male
-Regencies
-Titles already being contested in a Claim or Succession War
-Titles the claimant is second or third in line to inherit"
Now, I read this as an OR. You only need ONE of those things, right? Well, my claimant isn't male, so that rules out #1. France is at peace, so that rules out #3. And France is agnatic, so my wife is not in line, not ever, so that rules out #4. However, as an underaged boy, Hugues is clearly in a regency. Is the problem that France is agnatic, so female claimants can never ever push their claims?
Maybe that's it, because I gave my wife a STRONG claim instead of a weak one using the console just to test, and I still could only push a male vassal's single-county claim or the Ponthrieu holdings [b_* tier stuff]. I know I've married off a son to a princess of the ERE and then pushed her onto the throne in Constantinople before, but I think ERE starts as Ag-Cog Primo while France starts Ag only. I didn't realize that was a factor, before.
I could wait for her weak claim to be inherited by our son, but it's actually a 'Will not be inherited unless pressed in war' type of claim, which is impossible. So I guess the Emma -> Matilda -> Robert chain for an early Hundred Years War in the 11th century isn't viable, and I'll have to keep trying to get an inheritable claim onto a male via intermarriages.