Kingship titles for Bishops

[exin]

I have quite a question for you guys, and hopefully someone who can offer me a solution.

In order to achieve realm stability and to avoid the unpleasantness of having noble vassals who make wrong marriage choices, which usually end up with them giving away their lands through marriage, I employ the tactic of making all my duke vassals Bishops.

Now, that works all fine and well for as long as I am a King. But when I do become and Emperor, and the realm reaches quite a large size, having numerous duke vassals simply isn't efficient anymore. So normally I would make King vassals, to easily manage them. But here is the thing, I can't make the damn Prince-Bishops Kings. I do not have the option to confer a King title to any of my Duke holding Bishops.

Is there any way to mod this so that I can offer them the Kingship title?

 

[Panurge]

You can use the cheat command "give_title k_name charID"

 

[Wallain]

It is an annoying limitation, but sadly I can see no way around it except the console command.

 

[Effixel]

What if you give the bishop control over a majority of duchies of a kingdom, give him a shitloads of money, and then hope that he will dump his piety to create the title? Can they do that?

 

[exin]

Well, console command does make them King-Bishops, but I will try to do give them the de-jure duchies and money for it, and see if they do anything about it.

 

[perpetualmuse]

What if you give the bishop control over a majority of duchies of a kingdom, give him a shitloads of money, and then hope that he will dump his piety to create the title? Can they do that?

Yes they can, but don't count on it happening.

In patch 1.06b (and presumably still) you could create King-Bishop vassals as Emperor by pausing the game, giving a Count a Bishopric, then a Kingdom (he will be a feudal vassal at this point). Then, revoke his County title and you can end up with him as a King-Bishop. From memory, I think for this to happen he has to refuse the revokation (so you may have to make him unhappy with you first) and then you win the resulting war and force-revoke the title. This was DEFINITELY possible in patch 1.06b.