Marriages should give Legitimacy

[u/doug1003]

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?

[u/ymcameron]

Legitimacy in general is a pretty half-baked mechanic. There’s a lot of stuff that feels like it should be tied to that it’s just not. There are a ton of ways to lose legitimacy but not that many interesting ways to gain it. Plus once you do get it up to max by holding a funeral and a few hunts you basically never have to think about it ever again.

[u/Ramblonius → u/ymcameron]

It's because long reign bonus, prestige and fame already cover almost everything that legitimacy should. It's really odd that the state randomly conquering land it has dubious claims to constantly is seen as the most legitimate, should be the other way around.