Is there any point to arranging marriages for your court hangers-on? Theres plenty of options to do so but I can't see why to bother. At the moment I only arrange marriages for my own heirs.
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In 1.01 you cannot arrange marriages for courtiers not of your dynasty anyway. Which I actually think is unfortunate - I want my stat 13 steward to breed a lot of little stewards to succeed him. 
Marry the female ones with high stats to your "country cousins" and breed a bunch of people with superior stats who are of your dynasty. Since your country cousins are not actually related to you, just part of the same dynasty, you can have lot of fun with genetics using them.
If you get a male offspring with really good stats, he can be a good duke. If you get a female with good stats she can be married to your sons (no risk of inbreeding, since the country cousins don't even coutn as related to you) to give them good stat offspring.
And all the offspring are from your dynasty, so you can control them.
I tend to marry off all my country cousins.
If you get a male offspring with really good stats, he can be a good duke. If you get a female with good stats she can be married to your sons (no risk of inbreeding, since the country cousins don't even coutn as related to you) to give them good stat offspring.
And all the offspring are from your dynasty, so you can control them.
I tend to marry off all my country cousins.
I believe that if you have a female steward who is unmarried, for example, and she later marries someone outside your territory, she will move away from you and you will need a new steward. (But I just started playing yesterday, and I'm still experimenting.)
Also, if you want to move a woman with promising stats from a neighboring kingdom into your own territory, a good way to do this would be to marry her to one of the country cousins in your court.
Also, if you want to move a woman with promising stats from a neighboring kingdom into your own territory, a good way to do this would be to marry her to one of the country cousins in your court.
P.Q. Varus said:
Actually, the one who proposes the marriage has the couple move into their court, no matter what sex their bride/groom was.
There really should be a feature like in MTW where if you don't arrange marriage for someone over a period of time they'll find their own bride. Not EVERY marriage was an arranged marriage, you know.
I like to use cloned cousins to marry talented but mature women in other courts and bring them home to serve as my spymaster/chancellor/steward.
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