As such, many marriages will only confer a temporary alliance, not a lasting one. However, unless they join your dynasty either through you/your son marrying patrilinealy or you(female)/your daughter marrying matrilinealy, this alliance will not persist for future generations. Marrying someone or their son or daughter, or marrying your son or daughter to them or their son of daughter, will give you an alliance. Marrying someone with high stats can therefore be very useful, and can make a big difference in how well you're able to control your realm. However, there's also an 80% chance to get the Content trait, which means you cannot get the extremely useful Ambitious trait (+2 to every stat) This usually gives you a positive temporary modifier to some aspect of your realm, and a 20% chance of getting 1 point in that skill. If your spouse has higher numbers in any stat, you'll be likely to get occasional events where you'll get the opportunity to ask your spouse for help. For reference, you can hold 1 extra holding for every 4 points you have in Stewardship. This includes all the state statistics and your demesne limit.ДЄs your spouse affects your demesne limit, a high Stewardship spouse means you'll be able to hold several more holdings, 1 for every 8 points (s)he has in Stewardship. Half of your spouse's stats will be added to your own for most purposes. As such if you remarry and have more children, you risk your new wife assassinating your original children to pave the way for her own. Do note that a mother will have very good relations with her own children, but not the children from a previous pairing. As such if you want a good heir it is wise to marry someone with good stats and traits. The stats and traits of a child will be affected by the stats and traits of both parents. So as long as you don't have any fertility reducing traits, you should be able to get enough children to continue your dynasty. My personal record is 9 children, and I've heard of people having as many as 15 (my personal record is 21, all female). It is also possible for her to get pregnant through events, for example if your male character becomes rather angry with the death of his first-born son.Д¬ouples tend to have two children on average, but traits increasing fertility can make a couple produce far more than this. The chance of pregnancy is affected by several traits, like Chaste and Lustful. The traits of your children will also be affected by the traits of your spouse, and you can assign your spouse as spymaster as the position is limited to males, the ruler's mother, and the ruler's spouse.ДЄs long as the female in a marriage is under 45 and neither character has the Celibate trait, she can potentially get pregnant. So if for example you as an emperor marry a king's daughter, you'll lose 20 prestige while she'll gain 20.ДЇurther there are many events, both good and bad, tied to being married. You'll also get prestige if the house your spouse is from is a prestigious one, and you'll get or lose prestige depending on the rank of your spouse, 20 prestige per step above or below you. In addition, you also get half of your spouse's stats added to your own for the purpose of state statistics, and for determining demesne size.

Marriage brings several benefits, the most obvious of which is child birth. There is no max age at which one can get married, but women become completely infertile at 45. I'll go into how the marriage mechanic works, and how you can use it to your benefit.ДЄnyone above the age of 16 can get married. In addition, marriage can be used to forge alliances.

Marriage is the primary way to expand your dynasty, and to ensure its continuation. For marriage specific outcomes between spouses see Marriage Guide.ДЄs Crusader Kings II is based around your dynasty, getting the most out of marriage is essential.

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