find rightful lieges'

[Tace]

how do i find out who is the rightful liege of my vassals? they are giving me less troops because im not their rightful liege.

[PJ]

couple ways. I usually just switch map modes. Itll show what kingdom, duchy or empire they belong to.

[Tace]

does that just not highlight where they are / control? she has kingdom title so she needs to be under an emperor. im thinking i wont be able to move most vassals.

[AC Denton]

click on a title, it'll tell you which titles are a part of it or which they're a part of

[Spellthis]

there should be options to see what the next title up is. if you happen to skip one, for instance you have the county and kingdom but not duchy, they might complain.

[KingKickAss]

Its like this. Lets say you're a king, and you absorb some lands outside your kingdom's de jure. The owners of that land will not like you because you are not their de jure liege. There is also a similar penalty when you have a duchy vassal who is in the dejure of a king vassal's land.

To get rid of this issue, you have to hold the proper title above him, so if its a duchy, you have to hold the kingdom title that his duchy is a part of.

[Sid1701d]

It is really confusing as far as I know how it works, I joined Alba volenteerly to keep me safe as I gathered up enough counties to create Ireland, I will be equal to alba so the de jura claim will make me a independent ruler without a war. Click on your banner or flag either on your charactor or on your capital, it will list who you belong to from left to right, left is always the lowest dejura level the high you go up the higher the Dejure goes, so on the right it will say for example I will use Ireland:
Left it says Duchy, next one to the right is Kingdom, and to the far right is Empire. These are dejura tittles that the counties that have no de jura claims want to belong to, counties is the lowest title you can have besides barons and church holding these don't have no dejura claims outside the county or holding itself. Because I am playing Ireland and Ireland isn't formed yet I choose to become a vassel with the Kingdom of Alba, so that he would protect me as I claim the independent counties, I ain't giving him all my levies and taxes because I am dunchy of mead if I click on my leige it will say not rightful leige because he does not have the title of Ireland. Because I am a duchy I am still under his control, but if I get enough counties to form the kingdom of Ireland since there is no empire yet I will become independent without a war, because I would have got the tittle of Kingdom, which is equal to what my leige has.

Edit: I got my left and right confused, but lowest tittles besides counties and baronies are from left to right as the highest titles. so dunchy on the left and Empire on the far right and kingdom in the middle.