On the random wife table there are two entries where the wife is an heiress and you are instructed to roll a d6 in order to see how many co-heirs there are.

In the cases where the roll is > 1 is there an expectation that the wife is the youngest (like the son number roll in BK&L) or is it expected that the GM come up with a way of determining where in the birth order the wife is (implied by the (5) result for a vassal knight's heiress where her being the eldest garners a larger inheritance).

Regards
Luke

On the random wife table there are two entries where the wife is an heiress and you are instructed to roll a d6 in order to see how many co-heirs there are.

In the cases where the roll is > 1 is there an expectation that the wife is the youngest (like the son number roll in BK&L) or is it expected that the GM come up with a way of determining where in the birth order the wife is (implied by the (5) result for a vassal knight's heiress where her being the eldest garners a larger inheritance).

When only women are the inheritors, the estate is broken up evenly
The oldest daughter never gets a larger share

When only women are the inheritors, the estate is broken up evenly
The oldest daughter never gets a larger share


Greg, what happens if the estate is simply one manor and there are, say, 3 sisters? In that case, evenly dividing the manor ends up with £2 income per sister, but this is not enough to support a knight. So who will contribute a knight?

When only women are the inheritors, the estate is broken up evenly
The oldest daughter never gets a larger share

Greg, what happens if the estate is simply one manor and there are, say, 3 sisters? In that case, evenly dividing the manor ends up with £2 income per sister, but this is not enough to support a knight. So who will contribute a knight?

Oddly enough, they each end up responsible for 1/3 of a knight
At least int he Early Period
But this is one of the reasons that King Arthur will switch to a money system for much of the fulfillment of his army

The oldest daughter never gets a larger share


Except when there's a single manor and five daughters. Per your table each daughter gets a settlement of £1, leaving a £1 remainder which goes to the eldest.

It's really not a biggie, but I was just intrigued at the implication that I might need to come up with an answer for 'which daughter did you get?'

Anyway, thanks for the replies to my various and sundry questions.

Regards
Luke

The oldest daughter never gets a larger share


Except when there's a single manor and five daughters. Per your table each daughter gets a settlement of £1, leaving a £1 remainder which goes to the eldest.

Oh yea, I missed that the first time I looked.


It's really not a biggie, but I was just intrigued at the implication that I might need to come up with an answer for 'which daughter did you get?'

What you see there is actually my failed attempt to resolve it "simply" without using fractions of a librum. :(


Anyway, thanks for the replies to my various and sundry questions.

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