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Submission to Authority

Submission to Authority is a Mostly Mechanical Mod that introduces Title Legitimacy to dynamically set the appropriate Authority level (and enact appropriate laws) on each held title, depending on how legitimate the ruler is considered to be by its De Jure vassals.

Imprisonment, revoking titles and vassals, converting county faith and culture - those can be allowed on some vassals, but not on others, depending on what title they pledge allegiance to.

Single heir inheritance laws are also set on titles and not realm-wide, making the transition to realm-wide Primogeniture that much harder to achieve - and harder to maintain.

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There are 5 levels of Title Legitimacy, depending on whether the ruler that holds the title meets the Expected Legitimacy of the vassals which pledge De Jure allegiance to that title.

Those levels range from Contested (2 levels under Expected Legitimacy or less) to Respected (2 levels over Expected Legitimacy or more).

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There are 6 levels of Crown/Tribal Authority, and as there are also 6 levels of Ruler Legitimacy, the base level of Crown Authority of a ruler matches their Ruler Authority. For example, a Rightful Ruler (Legitimacy Level 3) has a base Standard Authority over titles they hold.

That authority level is then modified depending on each title's Legitimacy. If a ruler's legitimacy over a title is Accepted, then their base authority level applies. If their legitimacy over the title is Challenged or Contested, then their Authority Level over the title will be reduced accordingly, whereas if their legitimacy over the title is Recognized or Respected, then their Authority Level over the title will be increased.

Authority Levels remain gated by innovations, so an Authority Level only applies if it is available.

As a consequence, when handling larger realms, rulers are likely to have different Authority Levels for different titles. So they could very well be allowed to revoke titles from vassals within the Kingdom of France, but not within the Kingdom of Aquitaine.

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Effects of Authority Levels have been expanded to restrict some ruler actions that were previously unrestricted in vanilla.


Rulers require Standard Crown Authority over a land to be able to convert the Faith or Culture of their vassals' counties.


With Standard Crown Authority over a title, a ruler can create lower-tiered titles within its De Jure hierarchy, if the Powerful Vassals of the land do not object.

With High Crown Authority over a title, vassals will require their permission to create titles within its De Jure hierarchy.


Changing realm Partition laws requires having Limited Crown Authority over all held titles.

Changing Gender Succession laws and Elective laws on a title requires Standard Authority over that title.

Single Heir inheritance laws are now applied on titles instead of realm-wide, and require High Crown Authority.


Three vanilla realm laws cannot be handled on a title rather than realm-wide, due to restrictions from code.
Those require a certain Authority Level to be attained on all higher-tiered titles held by a ruler, and 3 icons in the Realm Window show whether they are enacted or not :

- Changing Partition Laws requires having Limited Authority over all titles
- Title Inheritance out of the realm is prevented by having Standard Authority over all titles
- Designating Heir requires having High Authority over all titles