Demote the county capital to baron tier and make an empty slot the capital. Note that this DOES count as changing your capital for cooldown purposes! In the rare case that your realm capital is a minor settlement, you can right-click the capital settlement to move your realm capital within the same province. Accessed by right-clicking a county's capital settlement, or by clicking the Make Capital button at the top-left of the province view. Nomads and some patricians (patricians can if they are not the doge and their capital isn't the capital of the merchant republic) are not allowed to use this action.Ĭhanges your realm capital. For example, if you are a feudal ruler who wants to create a vassal merchant republic, you might start by making a city the capital of a coastal province. You can do this, for example, to select the most-upgraded castle as the one you keep (or leave the least-upgraded one for a direct vassal to keep).Īnother use is to select the government type used by a courtier to whom you grant the county. If you hold both a county and a minor settlement within it, you may raise the minor settlement to the status of county capital.
If there is "enough space" (it needs at least 2 empty holding slots for one extra free holding, so 3 empty slots for the normal two free holdings), additional minor settlements will be constructed until the county has a full set (generally in this direction: castle, then city, then temple). The province must share the ruler's religion.
However, dukes may usurp kingdom titles without needing to hold two duchies first. If a vassal, you cannot usurp a title higher than or equal to your liege's.To peacefully usurp a duchy, kingdom, or empire from another ruler: Using the "Find title or region" button ( hotkey: ?).For empires, go to a kingdom's title screen and click the "de jure" box to make the empire shield appear.Clicking the duchy or kingdom shield in the province view.If you're unable to create a title and want to know why, you'll need to visit its title screen by either: If you are able to create a title, a "Can create titles" alert should appear. Titular titles cost twice as much to create, but only require that you hold the capital. The "Become King" ambition halves both the gold and piety cost when creating the kingdom. The wealth cost decreases with piety (down to half price at 1000 piety). Hold any two kingdoms (or already emperor tier) Hold any two duchies (or already king+ tier) Kingdoms can not be sold or other wise untitled (not by stealing birthrights either!).Special title holders (such as holy orders) cannot create equal or higher titles// nor be taken through other means of royal commands or any command) makes no sense to test the toll!.Chinese Imperial and (Roman) Imperial rulers cannot create empires.If a vassal, you cannot create a title higher than or equal to your liege's.You must control 51% of the title's de jure counties (for duchies or kingdoms) or 80% (for empires).