Depends on the rationality of your ally. Traits like Brave, Wrathful, Stubborn - all reduce rationality. Also, I seen a lot of wars that an ally might start with full confidence of winning, but then the enemy comes up with some quick strategic marriages, and all of a sudden, your ally is in trouble.
Indeed. Calling a Rowdy child "evil" seems to be going a bit far, and isn't very intuitive. I, myself, and half of the other boys in grade school were evil by this standard, heh.
No. For a ruler to accrue renown to their dynasty, none of the lieges above them can be of the same dynasty - or to put another way, in any particular independent realm, only the highest tiered dynasty members count.
In any single vassal chain, only highest tiered dynasty member counts. But, if an independent king of Dynasty A has 10 duke of Dynasty B, Dynasty B gets Renown for all 10 of those dukes.
Your realm has to hold de-jure territory belonging to the title. That is, if you or any of your vassals hold territory inside those duchies, they will not be destroyed. But, if none of those counties are part of your realm, that duchy title will get destroyed.
Default setting is basically just have it on "on" right? To my understanding if you have it on or default, you don't have to directly hold any land inside it. You can have a vassal that holds it. So you need to either directly or indirectly have control over it. If you lost control over all de jure land on it then you will lose your title after some time.
Thank you for the reply, but this is where I keep getting confused, because surely if you hold a title or your vassal holds a title then it’s automatically part of your realm? I don’t think I’ve ever had a game where I’ve had a title not be part of my realm. So this setting seems utterly pointless to me?
Say, Duchy of Anjou has some of its counties conquered by King of France, some others by King of Aquitane, and rest by King of Brittany, with none of them holding 50% of it, so none can usurp it. Now Duke of Essex holds Duchy of Anjou title, but no De-jure counties of that duchy, and that title will get destroyed.
Okay, that makes sense, but is it because it isn’t de jure part of Kingdom of England or because my vassal doesn’t hold any of the counties? If I as King of England hold the Duchy title of Kent, but the three counties are split between three vassals will the title be destroyed or not?
While ANY of the counties are De-Facto part of your realm (personally own, or your vassals own), you can hold the title. If none of them are - then it gets destroyed.
Anjou is part of your realm because Essex holds Anjou. But it is de jure part of France. Whoever have control over it, have control over it. The title won't get just transferred to France, that's just nonsense.
I wasn’t thinking it would get transferred I was concerned the title would be destroyed. I understand about how de jure drift works, but thank you for taking the time to confirm it. What confused me was the specific circumstances in which titles get destroyed if no land within the higher tier title is held by a landed character in your realm I.e if my vassal duke of Essex holds the title Duchy of Anjou but doesnt hold any counties within Anjou then the title will be destroyed. I was wondering if the title would be destroyed because it wasn’t de jure part of the kingdom of England, but no, it’s because of the vassal holds no county within Anjou. I think.
de jure drift is a thing but that specific one will never happen, because it requires land adjacency - which I strongly disagree with, actually, since locking island kingdoms like England out of ever getting any drift on the continent is awful.
