(also posted in another thread:)

"It is certainly not the fact that two buildings are involved. I have trained valor 2 pronoiai allagion in Nicaea (1 province bonus, 1 from master horse breeder), also byzantine cavalry or mounted sergeants get a bonus from the master horse breeder (all those units need 2 or 3 troop producing building types). Lancers don't get bonuses.
I think that a unit that really needs the highest level building, doesn't get the bonus. Or, more generally, if a certain level of troop producing building gives a certain valor bonus, the troops that need that building level for their training, won't get the bonus, but they will get the bonus from higher level buildings. (anyone who understands this sentence from the 1st time???)

So, if you give the baronial court a valor 1 bonus, chivalric knights wouldn't get the bonus (because they NEED this building), but feudals would have it.

To be honest, I didn't really tested this theory, but I experienced some facts of it (Pavise arbalests don't get the valor bonus from master bowyer, but normal arbalests do), so I guess it is right. "


But this doesn't explain the bonus for footknights. Maybe you can mod the game so footkn. need one of the royal_court upgrades and a certain level of swordsmith or spearmaker and see if they still get the bonus.