[Discuss] Royal Status

[Marc J.]

On 10/3/06, Anthony Cerqueira wrote:
>
> A lord has this great swath of land, slaves (peasants) working for them,
> knights protecting them and countless other holdings of wealth. If a judge
> comes and declares said lord banned I doubt they would just shrug and leave
> their region. (Is there any historians in the house who could comment if I'm
> thinking of this properly?)
>

I'm not a "real" historian, but from everything I understand, the local lord
in question would go to his leige lord, (i.e. Duke) and tell him to get the
Judge to rescind the ban.

The Duke would, in effect, be honour-bound to do what ever they can to help
their lower lord to "get away with [whatever they did to deserve the ban]".

...and, if the Judge doesn't cooperate, the Duke would probably go to the
Ruler. If the Ruler won't disipline "his" Judge, the Ruler would have one
pissed off Duke on his hands...

Of course, if people would ACTUALLY play like Medival nobles, there would be
waaayyyy more interaction and much less bannings.

Not sure what long term effect such a suggestion would have if implimented
> but I'll think about it and hopefully someone else will too. ;)
>

One possible long term effect, (or suggestion) would be to give the Dukes an
option to strip their landed lords of their title. (Rational: Dukes as
mini-Rulers/More power to the Dukes)

Of course, the Ruler could re-appoint them... and the constant "He's not the
Count!" "He's the new Count!" would result in control, production, and
possibly morale and loyalty losses. Plus, courts would be less effective,
(or even not possible at all) with a constant back and forth.

-- 
Marc J.
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