how do i locate my illegitimate child?

[snuggleform]

I seduced a foreign ruler's daughter and she had my child and I saw the event for it, but I have no idea how to find the kid again so I can legitimize him and use the claims. I looked through my list of lovers and none of them have children that are newborn, I used the search for "bastard" option but I see nothing matching that description either. None of my children in my homepage match the description either.

How do you easily track your illegitimate children?

[ShadowRFox]

If your character know that the child is theirs, then you can go in the secrets menu. It should at least show the mother/father that you had the relations with. From there you can just click on their children till you find the one that you think is yours.

Alternatively you can just pin the lover until they have a child, then pin the child.

[snuggleform]

The initial problem is I didn't know I had to pin the child as soon as the event cropped up; I couldn't find it to pin it after the event. I did find the secret tabs helps a lot.

The main issue I came to be clear on is that when the event first popped up, it was just a pregnancy notice. The actual birth happened later.

Btw I'm just confused on illegitimate children in general - how are claims passed to them? I made a custom religion equal gender and I impregnated a muslim woman whose faith is male only. The illegitimate child is a girl and has implicit claims on my titles.

How does the game decide what claims the illegitimate child gets when there's different gender laws and succession laws? Is there ever a circumstance where it treats the child as being from a matrilineal marriage? What if my child had been a boy - would it have claims from the muslim side and not mine?

[garthurbrown]

Originally posted by snuggleform:

The initial problem is I didn't know I had to pin the child as soon as the event cropped up; I couldn't find it to pin it after the event. I did find the secret tabs helps a lot.

The main issue I came to be clear on is that when the event first popped up, it was just a pregnancy notice. The actual birth happened later.

Btw I'm just confused on illegitimate children in general - how are claims passed to them? I made a custom religion equal gender and I impregnated a muslim woman whose faith is male only. The illegitimate child is a girl and has implicit claims on my titles.

How does the game decide what claims the illegitimate child gets when there's different gender laws and succession laws? Is there ever a circumstance where it treats the child as being from a matrilineal marriage? What if my child had been a boy - would it have claims from the muslim side and not mine?

Bastards get no claims, unless you legitimize them. Or unless you have a faith with treats all children as legitimate (the No Bastards) doctrine.

[snuggleform]

Well let's say you do legitimize the bastard, what claims does it get from the mother and what claims does it get from the father assuming they're from very different cultures/religions/legal systems?