Inheritance Question

[heliostellar]

I am playing as the Doux of Athens. I have two sons. One of them I married of in a normal marriage to the Duchess of Cyprus and the other I matrilinearly married off to one of the daughters of the Doux of Epirus hoping to knock him out of the succession since I have Gavelkind. I recently conquered Chandax in a holy war with one of the Muslim leaders and was able to create the title Doux of Crete. It seems the son that I married off matrilinearly is now the heir to that new title. I'm not sure how that's possible. I've confirmed again under his character screen that he is indeed married matrilinearly. How can he be a claimant to any of my titles? Is that a bug? I would just kill him off but then I'll lose the alliance with Epirus which was the whole point of the marriage to begin with!

UPDATE: I invited him back to my court and stuck him with the bishopric that I had acquired from conquering the Cretan province. That knocked him out of line once and for all and maintained my alliance. I still don't think that should have happened though.

 

[grisamentum]

sigh

Marrying a son off matrilineally has absolutely no effect on his ability to inherit claims or titles. Not sure where you got the idea that it would.

 

[heliostellar]

I'm pretty sure that at some point there were two ways to disenfranchise an heir's claims: priesthood and matrilineal marriage.

 

[icon41gimp]

No, you're not remembering correctly.

 

[Daelix]

There's a reason if your primary/only heir is a daughter, there's a red warning text if you try to marry her patrilineally (or when you try to marry a son heir matrilineally). It doesn't disenfranchise her as your heir, it just means all your sh** goes to another dynasty when you die; GAME OVER. If you didn't get the warning text, it's because at the time the son wasn't entitled to anything.