Heredity was the reason why some women held titles and authority in western countries. However, women were not appointed as governors or magistrates with a couple of exceptions in the Renaissance and later.
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Viceroys should be (almost) male only
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You're right and it should be limited that same way normally landing a woman is. So you need an egalitarian or female dominant gender law. I would argue though that it should only be limited on full agnatic gender laws if it isn't already.
Currently if you have male-preference you can still grant them to women, as long as said woman is already a countess, duchess or queen.
In fact you can grant it to women who're countess/duchess/queen while full agnatic, if you somehow manage to gain a landed woman (invasions, etc)
In fact you can grant it to women who're countess/duchess/queen while full agnatic, if you somehow manage to gain a landed woman (invasions, etc)
That's a difficult issue, because a reasonable Holy Roman Emperor with imperial admin would probably have granted any non-heritable duchy (e.g. supervision of a large district) any time to a smart and loyal countess than a degenerate of a male count, but on the other hand women should not be political representatives in this era unless they happen to inherit a monarchy or fief. No dogeships, magistracies etc. As in, I'm pretty sure there must have been a female magistrate here or there at some point throughout the middle ages, of course, but the general rule.
One example to the contrary is hardly 'enough said' in response to a claim qualified with 'almost'.
Maybe, but your own post does kinda shoot down the whole idea of 'no appointing women viceroys'. If it happened historically there's really no reason to change the game from how it is now. CK2 is alternate history the moment you click play and none of the bookmarks have women viceroys. Thus it plausibly could happen, it just didn't happen often historically. But in CK2 AU it could happen all the time. It could happen so much so that men never are viceroys.
Just saying.
Just saying.
You didn't say almost. You said NO women were appointed viceroys AT ALL until the Renaissance and beyond where there were some exceptions.
Look at thread title. And while I did say 'with a couple of exceptions in the Reinassance', I didn't offer an unqualified NO on the middle ages.
Basically, you're criticizing to criticize, trying to throw away an entire generalization with a single example where that generalization doesn't work.
The idea is to reduce the number of all those strategissas in BYZ.