Quote Originally Posted by Kagemusha View Post
No. My orders were to take Mide and surrender the control of it only to Church representative. Apparently our Bishop were not at Mide, so there was not one to surrender the County to. Apparently Duke of Ulster views that i should have surrendered it to him. This whole episode springs from the fact that open conversation was apparently not in the best interest of Ulster, which i cant but ask why?
I repeat that i offer my sincere thanks to the Ulster Vassal Beskar who´s actions saved the situation from escalating further. Now before my fellow Duke´s start calling me an usurper you should ask yourself why i didnt marry off the lass and take claim to her dead fathers lands?

Simple answer is that i did as i said. I sent troops to pacify Mide. It is not my problem that Ulster forces decided to run back to their lands at the first sight of my men. Now i will repeat my plea for the Duke´s and our Grace the Bishop to publically make judgement who should have Mide.
My personal view is that the girl should go to monastery and our Bishop should rule the land as ecclestial County, for which i already gifted him 30 in gold, so he can build a proper church in there. What say thee?
My soldiers were not in Mide for combat. If I had wanted to seize Mide, I would have simply marched over your forces and taken it. I had three hundred more men than your forces, but I decided escalating a conflict this early would not be in anyone's best interests. It was not I who behaved rashly.

If you wish the girl to be sent to the Monastery, you should have sent her to the Bishopric, not taken her as a hostage. You claim you want a group consensus on a legitimate claim for Mide, but you march your forces in to take it, and seize the young girl? At the suggestion of the Duke of Leinster taking Mide, you aggressively called the rest of us conspirators. You must make up your mind, Duke of Connaught. Will you be a compromiser, as you claim, or are you the aggressor your armies have shown you to be?