Inheritance change on founding Kingdom - what do to?

[AstaSyneri]

Hi!

In my recent CK2 game (DLC up to Charlemagne, Ironman) I was somewhat successful in my intent to eventually conquer the kingdom of England. My realm was set up well - Primogeniture (with an idiot son I had banished instead of killing him, so he would actually inherit after all, grrrr) etc. Then I decided to found the Kingdom of Albion - which was all well, until I noticed that suddenly my inheritance laws had changed to Agnatic-Cognatic Gavelkind.

WTF? Why would the game change this without telling me before founding the kingdom? From what I can see this now threatens to split up my kingdom.

What can I do to change this (It's unlikely my current king will survive the 10 years required)?

 

[Dahoota]

Sorry, not much you do here. Custom kingdoms and empires always go to gavelkind when they are created.

My guess is that it's because it's a lot easier to get certain succession types as a duke rather than when you are a kingdom, this might be to prevent exploiting this?

You are right in that the player should definitely be warned though, I've been burned with this when I discovered it as well. Luckily my character was fairly young though.

 

[AstaSyneri]

*sigh* So, continue to play and see what happens? Or restart?

 

[Dahoota]

Go hunting focus to pick up 1-2+ health and increase your chances of living longer. How old is your character now? How many sons do you have?

Edit: just saw you have 2 sons at most. I would just deal with the gavelsplit one time, murder your brother for his titles and change the succession law with your next character if your current one doesn't survive.

 

[Dragatus]

Custom kingdoms and empires don't copy laws from existing titles, they get default inheritance laws for your religion and government type. And for feudal Christians that's Agnatic-Cognatic Gavelkind.

You appear to only have a single kingdom though, which means that at least all the titles will stay within the realm and you can revoke the duchies and counties from your brother.

 

[Alcadizzar19]

If you create a de jure kingdom it will copy your duchy's laws, but not custom kingdoms.

 

[vandevere]

If you create a de jure kingdom it will copy your duchy's laws, but not custom kingdoms.

That's odd. I play Wessex 867 start. Wessex starts with Agnatic Primo. Wait until I get 1000 Prestige and form Custom Kingdom, and it's still Agnatic Primo. So what's different in my case?

 

[AstaSyneri]

I changed the inheritance laws in Wessex long before founding the Kingdom of Albion...