It's no longer a Duchy title apparently this is not allowed for the primary title of a republic. Usurp or revoke the new Republic of D title.My entire kingdom is only 19 counties, so now that I have 2 counties under republic control, I can't grant a 3rd as I'm over the 10% limit. City of B title screen: revoke button says "Not Revokable". Oh, well technically it says he's the Grand Mayor of D now. Revoke the City of B, which is where A is the Lord Mayor.I do have a truce with her for the next 10 years: the title screen for the county implies I might be able to revoke it when the truce expires. The former Duchess is now a Countess and it says I'm her liege, but the option doesn't appear when I right click her portrait. Here's the options the game won't let me do. Third question: How can I best accomplish this? Can I revoke the city title and turn Lord Mayor A into a regular vassal (somewhat like this question says)? Would that dissolve the new Republic? Would I need to revoke the former Duchess of D’s barony and give it to the Lord Mayor?Įdit: I don't think any of the answer's given so far will work. Second real question: is it so bad to have multiple merchant republic vassals? I should do everything I can to keep them from competing with each other, including total dissolution of the new one, right? I gather this is a bad situation, as trade empires compete with each other? And get a stronger bonus from controlling a longer swath of sea lanes? The downside is I already have a vassal merchant republic! What’s more, they already have trade posts up and down the coast, including in the county seat of the new duchy. Lord Mayor A doesn’t control any counties, just a city and a duchy.įirst real question: how did this happen when most merchant republic vassalization guides say you need to have the same character hold a city and a county in their de jure duchy before giving away the duchy title? The Lord Mayor A is still mayor of C and remains my vassal, but the Duchess of D is still around as a countess of her duchy’s capital. Much to my surprise, a new merchant republic is formed in the formerly independent duchy. I make the claimant duke landed by giving him the city, declare war with his casus belli and am off to the sieges.Ī short time later I finish squashing the independent duchy into the dirt and win the war. So I figured let’s kill all these birds with one stone. A city C happens to finish construction in county B (which is about 6 counties away from the target duchy – totally unrelated, even a part of a different de jure kingdom) right around this time, which gives me a ‘Wrong Holding Type’ and ‘Demesne too Big’ warning.
Following roughly the guide in this question, I want to press this claim, so I look at what land I can give the claimant. So I’m a King and I cajole a foreign courtier – call him A – who has a claim on an independent duchy D to come join my ever-so-much-more-prestigious court instead.