I want off the council.

[Lokiwolf90]

I'm stuck being Regent of France when I'd rather be Queen of Aquitaine. The King is in hiding.

[SKull]

Right click your liege to leave the council. Don't think you can leave the regency though.

[Lokiwolf90]

I had to wait until he got out of hiding

[al_x_ator2411]

How come a queen became regent for a king? Is the king your son or husband? In any case, I don't think you can resign. But I don't think it stops you from managing your own realm either.

[Lokiwolf90]

I wasn't queen at the time. I was just a very powerful duchess that controlled all of de jure Aquitaine. Not sure how I became regent.

[SKull]

The king can choose the regent at any point during his rule, or a regent will just be appointed when needed if the king dies and his heir is a child or if he become incapable and unable to rule but isn't actually dead. Characters can become incapable for many different reasons, like serious illness, old age or simply being hit on the head. Either way, the regency only lasts until the king dies or the heir becomes an adult.

To become queen yourself though you need a legitimate claim on the kingdom of Aquitaine. You can use the chancellor to fabricate it on the map like you do with any county, although he needs to be very skilled to fabricate a claim on a kingdom. The simpler way, and cheaper way, is to scheme for a claim on the intrigue tab. You will need three other nobles to back your plot before you can try to fabricate a claim at a low success chance; five backers for a more certain outcome.

Then, once you have a claim to the kingdom of Aquitaine that appears on your character sheet, you can start a faction to become queen in the factions tab. Technically you can just simply declare war on the king for the title as soon as you get the claim, which is probably the case for you. When you become a massively powerful duke or duchess you still can't take over the kingdom without a proper claim to it. But what you can do is wipe the king out entirely so he doesn't have any land left. Once that happens the kingdom of Aquitaine will be gone from the game and you can simply spend some gold to create it again since you already hold more than 51% of the de jure territory.

[Lokiwolf90]

The Kingdom of Aquitaine didn't exist until I created it. I had all the titles and cash i needed to create the Kingdom, but I couldn't while still a vassal of France. So I didn't need any claims. My problem was that I could not form an independence faction while still being on the council.

I didn't want to just declare war, because I didn't want to deplete resources on an independence war.

[al_x_ator2411]

Originally posted by anthony.sherer90:

The Kingdom of Aquitaine didn't exist until I created it. I had all the titles and cash i needed to create the Kingdom, but I couldn't while still a vassal of France. So I didn't need any claims. My problem was that I could not form an independence faction while still being on the council.

I didn't want to just declare war, because I didn't want to deplete resources on an independence war.

Thank you for the clarifications. The situation was not described very clearly in the first post.

You were very lucky he came out of hiding. Some people stay in hiding for years on end!
Good luck with rest of your campaign.

[Lokiwolf90]

I may have been the reason he was in hiding in the first place. ^_^ He had very high intrigue, well, until I invaded France and threw the former King in the dungeon. I had a pope in my pocket and that pope gave me the invasion cb.