We are 40 years old with 8 children (7 living) including our eldest son and heir 22 year old Prince Flaithbertach who has a son of his own 2 year old Prince Lochlann.
We have six years of truce remaining with the Kingdom of Alba/Scotland who is our main target for expansion now that we have exhausted most of the opportunity in Lithuania. And so we begin....
1323-
My daughter has twin sons in February, one of which is a genius!
The Duke of Connacht revoked the County of Galloway from its former owner, he now has two counties and his duchy title - better keep an eye on him, don't want the vassals getting too much power.
The final province in Estonia is converted to Catholicism!
We gain the 'Falconer' trait in April, just before the start of a new Grand Tournament!
Unfortunately shortly after the Grand Tournament is over in August we gain the 'stressed' trait.
We are forced to put down the revolt of the Duke of Connacht in 1326 after he attempts to take the life of another of our Kinsmen and escapes our guards sent to imprison him.
We loose the trait of Stressed in 1327 as our Vassals wage war with the Kingdom of Alba/Scotland over one of their claims to the County Morray.
We declare war on the Kingdom of Alba/Scotland in July 1329 in the 5th War for Irish claims on Scotland.
Shortly after our vassal, Duke of the Isles, takes the County Morray from the Scotish.
The war in Scotland is over by December of 1330. We grant the title of Earl of Strathearn to a young Kinsman.
In 1332 we get a message that says that after 100 years under Irish rule, the Duchy of the Isles is now considered part of the De Jure realm of the Kingdom of Ireland (and no longer part of Scotland/Alba)
In 1335 we declare war on the Kingdom of England, looking to instate our Kinsman as the ruler of the Country. Later in the year in a battle between more than 60,000 men (30,000 on each side) in Northern England we gain the Maimed trait.
During the War our Vassals in Lithuania declare war on a small neighboring state that breaks away from Denmark.
We achieve victory in the war on England in December 1337, several counties in England stay in the Kingdom of Jerusalem (and several counties in Jerusalem stay in England) but our Kinsman (a lowly Baron) is now the King of England.
Within a month the Kingdom of England is wracked by revolt.
We declare war on the Independent County of Cathness in Northern Scotland in early 1338.
We usurp the title of Earl of Caithness in January 1339 and grant the title to our second son Gilla-Crist.
England is once again united with the Kingdom of Jerusalem later in the month of January 1339 under the former King Fulk, and the Baronry of Blarney in County Desmond (Ireland) is now considered part of the Kingdom of England!
We declare another War on Scotland in 1341, this time a De Jure war for the County Clydesdale.
During the conflict the Peasants in the Country Strathern rise up in rebellion and we are forced to put them down.
We capture the County Clydesdale for our Vassal by the end of 1342.
We attack Scotland again in 1346 for our newfound claim on Ross (they have a new King so no truce breaking penalty). We capture the County Ross by May 1347 (and keep it in our own Demesne thanks to a new wife with amazing stewardship).
We are able to Usurp the title of Duke of Morray. We keep this as our own title for now, likely our Grandson and heir will have to give it out when he becomes King.
We are also able to create the title of King of Scotland! We then enact High Crown Authority in Scotland because this is a prerequisite for Primogeniture Succession, which is what we have in all of our other kingdoms (and we want our Heir to Keep the new Kingdom! )
We immediately press one of our new claims, on the County of Teviotale and it is back to war!
We are in the middle of the wars in Scotland (also attacking Buchan, Atholl and Lothan) when King Mael Sechlainn 'the Wise' dies and his Great-Grandson, 11 year old Flaithbertach ascends to the throne of the 4 Kingdoms.
1349 Status
King Flaithbertach has a lot of troubles. First he can only have a size 11 Demesne so we have to offload 5 landed titles. Plus we are in the middle of a three sided war in Scotland - which shouldn't be such a big deal (we outnumber our opponents like 4-to-1) but we can expect some revolts with this succession. If we can finish these wars, placate the vassals and assume command of our Kingdoms then King Flaithbertach may be able to become the most powerful King of Ireland yet - but its going to be a tall task! Until next time...
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