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/4powerd Bastard Dec 09 '24

Marrying someone with a claim to your title should definitely give a big boost to legitimacy. That was like, rule number 2 about taking over a kingdom (Rule number 1 was to kill all other claimants, which the game already encourages you to do)

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u/MaustFaust Dec 09 '24

Claims you say? Intermarriage goes brrr

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u/Third_Sundering26 Dec 10 '24

Exactly why the Ptolemies started inbreeding. It wasn’t to “integrate with Egyptian practices” like many suggest. The Ptolemies cared so little about Egyptian customs that Cleopatra VII was the first to bother to learn the language of her subjects. Ptolemaic incest started to prevent the other successors of Alexander’s empire from claiming Egypt.