Lord Mayor A doesn’t control any counties, just a city and a duchy.įirst real question: how did this happen when most merchant republic vassalization guides say you need to have the same character hold a city and a county in their de jure duchy before giving away the duchy title? The Lord Mayor A is still mayor of C and remains my vassal, but the Duchess of D is still around as a countess of her duchy’s capital. Much to my surprise, a new merchant republic is formed in the formerly independent duchy.
I make the claimant duke landed by giving him the city, declare war with his casus belli and am off to the sieges.Ī short time later I finish squashing the independent duchy into the dirt and win the war. So I figured let’s kill all these birds with one stone. A city C happens to finish construction in county B (which is about 6 counties away from the target duchy – totally unrelated, even a part of a different de jure kingdom) right around this time, which gives me a ‘Wrong Holding Type’ and ‘Demesne too Big’ warning. Following roughly the guide in this question, I want to press this claim, so I look at what land I can give the claimant. So I’m a King and I cajole a foreign courtier – call him A – who has a claim on an independent duchy D to come join my ever-so-much-more-prestigious court instead.
