How do I get rid of courtiers?

[User4035]

I just start the game and I'm trying to have kids to produce an heir and all of a sudden my liege goes on the warpath and takes a county or two and then I get the refugees from the conquered county fleeing to my court!!! Sometimes its a few courtiers, other times its like 10-15 extra people!!! No my court is over 30 people and my reproduction of children drops!!!

Who let them in??? Why my court??? How do I make them go away when they are already married???

Uggh, so frustrating. Historically people had to be 'invited' to court. You can't just show up.


And thats another thing about the 'free' lowborn women. There should be a pop up that says some minor nobility wishes to send their daughter to your court and asks for permission. If you say yes you get a random lowborn female(or male) if not then the peasant revolt % goes up by a 1%(or somethings small).

 

[Ratlegion]

Why are your problems problems? Random courtiers only help me , and they don't affect the birth rate. Sounds to me like you're just looking for something to complain over. It can take a long time to get started starting with a really poor council.

 

[User4035]

and they don't affect the birth rate.

Once you have 30 Courtiers the birth rate plummets.
And having more courtiers allows opponents to recruit them into their plots against you such as killing your heir.

The lowborn courtiers I was purely complaining and just wanted something a little more interactive.
But having a family of courtiers(foreign as well!) show up at your court without permission doesn't feel right.

 

[Aardvark Bellay]

I don't know the underlying mechanics, but its for sure if one of their relatives has been married to your court they will rather come to you than anwhere else.
Besides that i guess same culture matters and if they like you.

Marry them away, females regularly and males matrilinearly.
Works for me, should work for you.
If they are too old to marry (females) away, i'm afraid you either have to wait till they die or rush the "died by natural causes" a bit.

 

[Grubnessul]

Line up the manure carts and destabilize every balcony in your castle.

 

[JonStryker]

Once you have 30 Courtiers the birth rate plummets.
And having more courtiers allows opponents to recruit them into their plots against you such as killing your heir.

The lowborn courtiers I was purely complaining and just wanted something a little more interactive.
But having a family of courtiers(foreign as well!) show up at your court without permission doesn't feel right.

The courtiers' birth rate will plummet. Not yours.
I usually try to get my hands on a country to give to my heir to ensure he survives longer / produces lots of children.

You say 30+ is a problem? I had roughly 120 female courtiers in my Fatimid game. No way to get rid of them when they are older than 40 ...

 

[Mutineer]

Generally you can make them bishops in new conqured land or marry them out. Girls to boyes, man to girls matrilinear, if you really want to get rid of them.

 

[NewbieOne]

Marry the women away, betroth the underaged and okay the marriage the moment they turn adult. If you marry a man matrilineally, he will leave your court for the wife's. Anybody landed by you takes his spouse and underaged kids along, sometimes possibly other people. Making married people mayors isn't bad, may result in a good line of "elective" mayors in fact. Offspring do seem to marry, unlike typical mayors.