Princessess and Inheritance

[Arkatreides]

Has anyone ever got any land from marrying a princess?

Historically clever marriage politics were probably the easiest way to get large chuncks of land (see Henry II of England) but it doesn't quite seem to work in the game.

Perhaps a way to make it a bit more interesting would be if there were duchesses for each region which you could marry and if your influence is larger than the one of the king the province belongs to, the land would go over to your faction (which is exactly what happened with France and England)

Any ideas?

[Yoko Kono]

marry ur doaughter of to a foriegn prince and kill all his brothers, uncles and the foriegn king
now that prince should become king and if you kill him too, you should get some land
but i do think political marriages should play a bigger part in land swapping

[smoothdragon]

I agree. As it stands, the only way to get land beyond your own territory is through Crusades/Jihads. It would be a huge impetus for me to gain alliances knowing that there is a much higher possibility of gaining territory once the faction has been eliminated.

[dclare4]

Historically marriages would result in a lot of land changing hands sometimes - for example, Queen Margaret d'Anjou was given for her dowry the hard-won French provinces of Anjou and Maine since her father, Rene d'Anjou had lost them during the HYW. This utterly infuriated the English people who had sacrificed so much and given so many sons, lovers and husbands to take those counties. Similarly Aquitaine came into English possession through the marriage of Henry Plantagenet and Eleanor of Aquitaine and remained a bone of contention between France and England until the final battle of Castillon at the end of the HYW.

Gilbert de Clare