How do I not lose land when I die?

[They call her Big Tesco]

I had to grant land to my vassals because my domain was too big, but when I died I lost those places - my heir didn't seem to inherit my position as liege to those people. How do I navigate this?

[Rhym3z]

My question also

[Mansen]

You work towards "better" inheritance laws. Till then you read up on what and how inheritance works in your realm.

If you hold two kingdom titles, one of them will be handed to one of your secondary heirs...and since you can't have a king as a vassal...as a king, they become independent.

Keep in mind that with the default inheritance for tribes and such, titles will be CREATED if they can, so it's not enough to just destroy the second kingdom or not creating it. You're going to fight for it every generation.

[District 5]

it depends on your succession laws. So far, it seems the default for the ruler I play says that it is spread among my descendants equally.

[Trackstar]

A good thing to do starting out is to take advantage of those inheritance laws. Conquer some far off duchys and plant your dynasty there. Also, if you only have 1 top tier title (empire, kindgom, duchy), then you'll keep those lands. The lesser titles will get distributed, but it will all stay within your realm.

I did this on a Denmark playthrough and planted my dynasty in Brittany, Finland, Poland, Sicily, Holland, and of course England. It does wonders for renown.

[LFA]

It's possible that you have several titles that did not all have the same inheritance law, maybe one title allow women to inherit while another does not.
You can delete specific succesion rules of smaller tier titles or if you have two equal titles you can harmonise their succession, however under partition your holdings will always be split among your children.

There's a dynasty hostile plot to disinherit peopel from your dynasty if you are the head, but I haven't tried it against my children yet, I'm not sure it works.
Maybe the old trick of giving a bishopric to a son also removes them from inheritence, but not sure about that one at all.

[Cyan]

maybe kill your sons?

[Trackstar]

Originally posted by Cyan:

maybe kill your sons?

Just make the "unwanted sons" commanders/knights. Problem solves itself.

[Kadrush]

As far as i can see, the issue is the partition sucession law, which you can only change midgame.

Easy game I would recommend deinheriting sons that you dont want to share your stuff when you die, just becarefull that it is irreversible and you might kill your game if your man heir die.

Other way is to knight/commander the uneeded sons and send them to hopeless battles, so they can die Klingon style.

[BoydofZINJ]

Have 1 male heir and use subterfuge, murder, and RNG to keep it like that

[Gennesis]

Get crown authority to level 3 revoke the titles.

[bri]

Originally posted by Trackstar:

A good thing to do starting out is to take advantage of those inheritance laws. Conquer some far off duchys and plant your dynasty there. Also, if you only have 1 top tier title (empire, kindgom, duchy), then you'll keep those lands. The lesser titles will get distributed, but it will all stay within your realm.

This doesn't always work with the default succession law as any title that can be created to split your realm further will be so if you have the lands to form a second kingdom title it will be created and boom half your stuff (or more) goes to your secondary heir.

[JuX]

You can probably salvage some of the tittles by granting them your heir before you die i suppose.

In terms of territory loss. It's best to use the kingdom view filter so you can see what territories are included within your kingdom tittle, which will not be lost since heir will keep capital tittle.

[Mansen]

Originally posted by JuX:

You can probably salvage some of the tittles by granting them your heir before you die i suppose.

Granting titles before inheritance will mess up the inheritance. Grant your heir a county and they no longer get the capital.

[Trackstar]

Originally posted by bri:

Originally posted by Trackstar:

A good thing to do starting out is to take advantage of those inheritance laws. Conquer some far off duchys and plant your dynasty there. Also, if you only have 1 top tier title (empire, kindgom, duchy), then you'll keep those lands. The lesser titles will get distributed, but it will all stay within your realm.

This doesn't always work with the default succession law as any title that can be created to split your realm further will be so if you have the lands to form a second kingdom title it will be created and boom half your stuff (or more) goes to your secondary heir.

True. That's why I sometimes stop at 3/7 counties in a duchy or 8/19 in a kingdom. Kinda gamey, but it works. Also, your first fascination after tribalism should be hereditary rule to stop the creation of new titles.

[Valff]

Originally posted by Mansen:

Originally posted by JuX:

You can probably salvage some of the tittles by granting them your heir before you die i suppose.

Granting titles before inheritance will mess up the inheritance. Grant your heir a county and they no longer get the capital.

Really? Oh wow good to know