When I created a new Kingdom...

[Norla]

I started playing as the Count of Saintonge (Shatter on) and I went on to claim and capture the duchies of Aquitaine, Poitou, Anjou, Berry and Blois. Since Saintonge was my first county and a de jure part of the duchy of Poitou the kingdom is now called Kingdom of Poitou and it bears the coat of arms of Poitou....

I have 2 questions:
- Why is it not called Kingdom of West Francia (I even hold Orleans and Paris)
- How can I change my coat of arms and use the one with the blue background and golden fleur de lis.

 

[junassa]

When you say Shatter on do you mean Shattered retreat or Shattered worlds? I don't know anything about SW.

Did you use intrigue decision to form your kingdom?

I got an event once notifying that since I booted out the Karlings, the Kingdom of WF would now be called France. I thought I made a screenshot but I can't find it.

 

[WJS]

When you create a kingdom, what you do is create a brand new kingdom-level title that will have a default name and CoA as your present primary ducal title.

To create the Kingdom of West Francia, you have to find the title in the title finder, and create it directly from there. It involves holding enough of the de jure territory of West Francia, which may or may not exist depending on your settings for a shattered world.

 

[WJS]

Note that if you hold the title for a particular duchy, or hold 100% of a de jure duchy, and the duchy's de jure kingdom title does not exist, then the duchy will automatically be placed in a brand new de jure kingdom, in this case the Kingdom of Poitou.

To create the Kingdom of West Francia from here, look at the de jure kingdom map. You need to hold 50% of the counties in the new de jure West Francia. You should receive an alert saying you have titles you can create, and West Francia should be on that list. If you don't, or if you've turned off de jure kingdoms in the settings, then you can't create the title.

 

[Rags17]

Similar tale here. I am playing a shattered world start and all of western Europe is Tribal while all of central and southern Europe plus Scandinavia and Arabia is nomadic, with feudals confined at the start to India only. I started as a one county nomad in Westfriesland and expanded to take over all of Holland before settling down as tribal, for some reason immediately gaining the Kingdom of Holland (relocalised to Zeelandia) title. When I went feudal it stayed with me and i just discovered that this title is in fact titular as the "real" kingdom level title for the area is the Kingdom of <imprehensible_shattered_world_name>.

Strange dejure shenanigans in shattered world.

 

[WJS]

That's actually what happens when khagans settle, I've found. They form a new "Kingdom of (capital county here)" and operate from there.