Our second son Loeguire dies in Paris, suffering from a crippling injury. The worst possible news reaches us in late 1254. Things being dangerous as they are right now, we hold on to plenty of money to call up mercenaries should we need them. The Duke of Flanders and Mayor of Millau are simply released. Poor Gudbrand, who I managed to forget about, is ransomed for gold. We also have some prisoners to deal with. We can't ask him to end his plot, but we can demand that most of his co-conspirators end their support of his plot, since they are apparently all vassals of ours. The King of Georgia must really not want our Irish blood in his realm. Hasqar is an heir to a Georgian duchy who is married matrilineally to one of our family members.

Another interesting plot to note here is the plot by the King of Georgia to kill a courtier of ours. We demand for several of these known plots to be ended, especially those detrimental to members of our dynasty. Our realm is so huge there are just people plotting and scheming against each other all over the place. Woah Loeguire, please calm down and just be patient. The troops of our personal demesne and those of our vassals in Ireland and Scotland are given a break, and we send the troops of our new French vassals against the the Duke of Normandy and Orleans instead. Unfortunately, it didn't work out and now we find ourselves at war with him. This gives us a bonus to our chance to successfully arrest a character in that location. Our Marshal is sent to Suppress Revolts in Orleans. We can see that Duke Eudes is currently reigning over his realm in Orleans. This means we can just imprison them on the grounds of their excommunication, and then when we launch our plots to revoke their titles, they'll already be imprisoned and unable to fight back against us. It just so happens that the Dukes of Valois and Orleans are excommunicated.

This puts all of the holdings within a province which we own under his control at once. For any county that has more than one castle holding, we tick the 'Include Lower Titles' checkbox. Our second son, Loeguire, is given possession of Paris as well as several other counties in Valois and Normandy until we are under our demesne limit. We can plot to revoke them without angering our other vassals. Even though we control all of the counties that make up those duchies, the ducal titles themselves are still held by their prior owners. Again, this is done by right-clicking the holding and then pressing the 'Create New Vassal' button.Īnother thing that we'll want to do is gain the Duchies if Normandy and Valois. A good first start is to assign appoint new owners for all of our town and church holdings. Our new holdings must be reorganized and handed off at least until we're under the limit. With all of the holdings of Normandy and Valois in our demesne, we are hopelessly above our demesne limit.

Part 16: How It's Made: French Kings 1253 - 1263

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