Marry distant relatives to potential heirs, so that a member of your dynasty will inherit. Later, you should make sure to spread your dynasty a little around. Usually, you will have problems to find a suitable match, but remember that you can invite characters to court to marry them to your daughters. To increase it and thus make a game over less likely, you should marry your daughters matrilineary. Refrain from gaining far away lands, as that makes the game more difficult.ĭuring the first generation, you lack other members of your dynasty. For your heir, instead, you should marry him to countesses or duchesses from one of the Frisian counties or duchies.

Both are good choices, cost no prestige, and give you an ally within the kingdom.Īfterwards, make sure to always marry the siblings of your heir to a close relative of another duke within Francia, to form Non-Aggression Pacts, which can be turned into alliances.

There are two suitable candidates available for your duke: Either marry the 26 year old Alpaïde Jerome-Karling from Santois, or betroth the 14 year old Lantsuinda Adalberts from Valais. Lombard succession can get rather wonky and you might find yourself suddenly as king of Lombardy, which makes combining all required duchies rather hard, as you do not only have to attack the powerful combined kingdoms of Francia yourself, but also find yourself attacked on de jure claims against your duchies. MarriageĢ) Be careful not to marry any of the Lombard princesses. Switch to Dutch as soon as the event fires, as that will prevent peasant revolts and liberation results. In Flanders, this is not a problem, as you can always plot to revoke counties within your primary duchy, so loosing a county or two to gavelkind can be easily remedied. Second, you start with gavelkind and thus risks losing the second duchy if you die to early. Even with all three other duchies combined, Flanders is a hard nut to crack. With some luck, your liege will create an empire (Francia or Holy Roman Empire) and you will not need to fight for your independence at all!Įven though the Duke of Brabant and Holland might look more tempting, because he already holds two required duchies, I found Flanders superior: First, Flanders as a duchy is bigger and offers more holdings. In that year, all required duchies belong to East Francia, and thus you can combine them completely without having to attack outside your own realm. 1) Start as the Duke of Flanders in the year 769.

Crusader kings 2 gavelkind tips