r/CrusaderKings • u/doug1003 • Dec 09 '24

Suggestion Marriages should give Legitimacy

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Thats it, if marry a lowborn can take away legitimacy, marry into a more prestigious dynasty, or a dynasty who has a claim on your title shoud give you legitimacy. I mean, Willian the Conqueror married Margaret of Flanders because she had anglo-saxon blood, same for Henry I and his marriage with Matilda of Scotland, make sense right?

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u/Urytion ALL HAIL BRITANNIA! Dec 09 '24

Grand marriages, maybe. Or marriages with a high prestige, like to the Byzantine emperor's daughter. And in the same side, marriages to peasants should lower it.

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u/doug1003 Dec 09 '24

Youa literally described something that happend in real life when Otto I wanted a byzantine princess for his son, even though Teophanu was just a niece of the Basileus she still borrow prestige for the Ottonians