What is a titular title???

[Crazy Bananazzz]

I just started on the 1066 date in the HRE and a duchess created the titular kingdom of franconia in the middle of Germany. How did they do this??? It isn't a kingdom in the de jure kindgom map mode. Did my game glitch out?

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

You can form titular tiles if you meet the requirements. They function like regular titles but hold no de jure land. Kingdoms and empires can become titular if their de-jure realm is absorbed by another kingdom/empire and they can become regular titles by the same mechanic.

[Karlington]

The requirement for creating a titular kingdom is usually holding its capital. They should have defined capitals even if they are not de jure part of the title.

[Malus]

title with no dejure vassals
note : dejure drift works as normal

[Crazy Bananazzz]

Originally posted by Christmas Potajto:

title with no dejure vassals
note : dejure drift works as normal

Okay but how did the AI make it. Was there an event? Idk how the AI just got this title.

[Karlington]

Originally posted by BEGOME ORTHODOX:

Okay but how did the AI make it. Was there an event? Idk how the AI just got this title.

Exactly what I wrote literally two replies ago:

Originally posted by Karlshammar:

The requirement for creating a titular kingdom is usually holding its capital. They should have defined capitals even if they are not de jure part of the title.

[EmotionallyBroken]

Originally posted by BEGOME ORTHODOX:

What is a titular title???

ular
(Latin: of, relating to, or resembling; compound of the suffixes -ule, "little, small" and -ar, "pertaining to, of the nature of, like"; and so, -ular is a combining form meaning: referring to something "specified": appendicular, molecular, pedicular; as well as, a combining form meaning "resembling" something specified: circular, globular, tubular)

apparantly it means "something like a small title" but in game really its used for "landless titles" which is quite different than "small".

[cz]

Originally posted by 250RoundMags:

Originally posted by BEGOME ORTHODOX:

What is a titular title???

ular
(Latin: of, relating to, or resembling; compound of the suffixes -ule, "little, small" and -ar, "pertaining to, of the nature of, like"; and so, -ular is a combining form meaning: referring to something "specified": appendicular, molecular, pedicular; as well as, a combining form meaning "resembling" something specified: circular, globular, tubular)

apparantly it means "something like a small title" but in game really its used for "landless titles" which is quite different than "small".

Not quite right with the etymology there. The "ul" isn't a diminutive suffix here, but just part of the word "titulus", meaning "title". There's no meaning of "smallness". Thus "pertaining to, of the nature of, derived from a title".

[Karlington]

Originally posted by 250RoundMags:

ular
(Latin: of, relating to, or resembling; compound of the suffixes -ule, "little, small" and -ar, "pertaining to, of the nature of, like"; and so, -ular is a combining form meaning: referring to something "specified": appendicular, molecular, pedicular; as well as, a combining form meaning "resembling" something specified: circular, globular, tubular)

apparantly it means "something like a small title" but in game really its used for "landless titles" which is quite different than "small".

Google Dictionary:

"holding or constituting a purely formal position or title without any real authority."

This is more or less exactly what it is in the game, heh. :)