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What's the war about? If it's a crusade then, yeah, the pope doesn't need land for it.

It's claim war on Pizza. I offered him White Peace because I don't want any surprises.

Free investiture is the best gravelkind management system. The moment someone is entitled to bishopic, he's diqualified from gravelkind. Viceroyalty lets you hide your titles from heirs, but only Byzantine can actually do it.

And beware of mismatching inheritances. Primogeniture on your empire and gravelkind on your primary kingdom is a sure way to lose everything.

It didn't give them viceroyalty before like this, but it highlighted in a way that included Thrace, so I didn't want to risk it. I will test it on Rome first.

I control duchy too. I said I usurped it.

But I found the reason. There's a stronghold of some holy order or something in one of the countries. Once I conquer it, I'll be great, although I would not be easy. Any advice on increasing crown authority by the way? I don't have enough to mend the schism.

It turned out that my mercenary rush tactics doesn't work very well against 2K-strong forts. Had to pay contribution to Syria.
Also, remember kids, don't press de jure claims against Muslims. You will have succession trouble 'til the end of
Paulicians hanging around at my borders. I think I need to do something with all those heretics that have holdings in my land, but I lack crown authority to just revoke them all.

Once I secure Tunis and Rome, I can restore Roman empire, but it seems I'm sitting out the next 50 years or so until my threat ticks down.

What's up with Shi'a anyway? Every decade I get a message of their rise, but nothing seems to change.

Anyway, I held back my first Jihad and it gave me popularity boost needed to bounce back to limited crown authority. How nice. I think I should celebrate it by declaring Holy War for what is left of Jerusalem.

God damn it. Born in Purple affects Byzantine succession, but not Greek. And I can't make my firstborn Despot because he's married to a landed woman.