"Let me ask you first, under the primogeniture law, who is the first order?" Pillay swallowed a bite of roasted, red-dripping suckling pork.

The meat is soft and rotten, and the chewing sound of Pillay is appetizing.

"When the father dies, the son succeeds, and the eldest son takes over." Bran didn't think twice.

"There are only illegitimate sons and nephews in the family, who will replace them?"

"Nephew."

"If the lord's father legitimizes an illegitimate child,"

"It depends on whether the local church approves it, and whether the wife agrees, if there is no one, it may be judged legal and invalid,"

"If there is still a daughter at home?"

"Depending on the region, even if it is the same country, the ancient laws of the dukes and counts will change the order of succession, in Bavaria, even if it is a male inheritance, but in the childless state, if there is a pregnant daughter, you can be regent, and after the birth of a child, see if it is a male ......"

The inheritance law of the Dark Ages, after hundreds of years of social transformation, gave rise to various complex claims disputes.

The inheritance law that has existed in the territory since ancient times, the new law of the superior feudal lord, the divine law promulgated by the Holy See, and the inheritance law after the marriage rule......

The two asked and answered.

Pillay hiccuped, "You just got to the point, the 'Knight Chief' of this regiment, four generations up from the maternal line, from Bavaria, to his maternal grandfather's time, became an earl......"

Pillay, who was drunk, didn't know if he was dizzy or deliberately trying to show off his knowledge, and turned to the events of hundreds of years ago.

"Bavaria was once extremely majestic, and during the period of the conqueror Madou the Great, Bavaria was the main center, and the "Greater Bavaria" province was established in the west to the east of Frankia (including today's Swabia), near Denmark in the north, Poland and the Czech Republic in the east, and Austria in the south.

After its disintegration, it was divided into five tribal principalities, and more than 100 years ago, the scope of activity of the five tribes was limited to present-day Bavaria. There is no difference between the lord of the principality and the king......

In the winter of 1254, one of the Five Dukes, 'Porto-Leesch (the ancestor of the present-day King Theromew), and another duke launched a campaign against the other three dukes, and Bavaria entered the "War of the Five Dukes", and our grandfather took the opportunity to become the monarch of an independent Earl ......"

"It's the spring of A.E. 1255." Leary finds an opportunity to interrupt.

But in fact, the correct time should be "A.E. Summer 1255", Carol ancestor Hunter, who wrote the heroic poem, tasted the sweetness and wanted to write again, but several books in a row could not create brilliance.

When he heard about the outbreak of the Battle of the Five Princes many years later, he decided to write the "Song of Heroes - Sequel".

He uses the Battle of the Five Princes as a starting point to describe the turmoil in Central Europe.

Hunter, who "made a fortune and made a fortune", was rigorous in his research this time, and even went to the war zone himself, and he wanted to change the concept that the clergy and aristocracy only valued theology and despised literature.

Every paragraph of text, he carved carefully.

However, the War of the Five Dukes took five years, and Hunter was summoned by the Lord in the middle of the second year, and he chose one of the Grand Dukes as the main point of view, but the Grand Duke was poisoned to death in the third year.

And this unfinished work was finally included in the library by Grand Duke Shange.

When the palace fell, the library was burned down, and the original is no longer there, but the story is in Howard's mind, and Bran heard it as a child.

One of the Five Dukes, "Poto Lillesch", later became King of Bavaria.

He fought bravely, took the lead, cherished his men, and the nobles loved him, but the people and the priests suffered unspeakably.

The brutal killing of prisoners during the war, the massive confiscation of clerical wealth after coming to power, the prohibition of monasteries and churches, and the possession of more than a certain amount of land.

The clergy was criticized orally and written, and contemporary historical documents, including the chronology of other lords, were often called "Potto the Wicked".

Today, the Kingdom of Bavaria, still ruled by the Leresch family, has been in turmoil for six generations.

Interestingly, the blood of the rebellion against the Holy See was passed down to future generations by King Poto, and the four kings after him were all called "wicked people" because of their discord with the Holy See, and they were very famous.

The current King Theromew, the great-grandson of Porto, has escalated his notoriety to "Viper".

Bran is familiar with this history, but he still makes a teachable look.

Pillay quickened his voice, "Our knight's grandfather had no children and had a second daughter, and the second daughter was the chief steward's mother.

At that time, the legal system of the country was that men were given priority, and if there were no men, women in the same family would inherit them, and women who had given birth to boys would be given priority.

Therefore, the second daughter of the governor succeeded to the throne in order of succession over her eldest sister.

This can be zoomed in on the "law of succession" adopted by Bavaria at that time, which stipulated that the nephew would take precedence in this situation.

So less than a month after the governor's mother came to power, the nephew of the former earl, made a successful sneak attack on the castle.

Less than five years later, the nephew was stripped of his title for his involvement in a royal conspiracy, which ended up in the hands of an illegitimate son.

At that time, King Poto legalized the bastard blood.

The bastard later banished his eldest sister to a monastery, became a friar, and hunted down the second sister.

Our steward, who was only six years old at the time, fled to Rome together.

He misses his mother and wants to reclaim his fief and title, although his mother died five years ago, but ......"

This story has been told many times by the Knight Steward to the members of the Knights, so the members who have been in the Knights for some days are familiar with it.

Bran listened intently, and roughly understood that King Poto was doing this because he wanted to pass on his throne to an illegitimate son, rather than an orthodox eldest son, so he experimented with vassals first.

However, after the death of King Poto, the vassals supported the eldest son, and the new king hated the illegitimate nobles, believing that their bloodline was not sacred enough, so during the reign of King Poto, all the legal documents issued by the illegitimate children were overthrown by the new king, and many of the bastard nobles who were given the title by him lost their land again.

This fiefdom of the Earl family was later split into two parts, and one part is now owned by the Star Mercenary Regiment, that is, the Braleys.

A long series of explanations allowed Bran to understand this complex history.

In this way, the knight chief inherits his mother's claim and has a legal position to ask for a fief that originally belonged to her maternal family, but the opponent he has to face is the new owner of the fief, and there are several changes in this.

The governor defeated Bavaria independently, shocked Bavaria, and was loyal to himself.

The Governor independently defeats the castle owner, takes back the glory of the family, and allegiates allegiance to Bavaria.

The Governor was helped by the Knights to win the battle, paid taxes to the Knights, and provided a base for activities.

In the oath of membership, the Order is "directly accountable to the Pope and not under the control of the king and bishops".

I can just use it in this state.

This kind of claim that is not the person in the next generation and has many restrictions is called "weak claim" by the people of the time.

The Holy See has declared that it can only be inherited from one generation, so as to avoid the endless pursuit of the enemy, the same people of God.

And if Howard died, then Bran would also get a "weak claim" to Venice.

Recently, Bavaria has been in turmoil, and many people have said that the Viper King is crazy, and the Knight Governor thinks this is the best opportunity.

He encouraged the other high-ranking officials to help him, but he was a little less lucky (the Pope thought he understood the voice of Christ, and the Knights were absolutely armed and left), and if he had not been to conquer the East, he would have entered the region and fought for the title.

Hearing about the Star Mercenary Regiment and thinking of Frederick, Bran felt that the world was so small.

"So you're going to fight with the manager?" Bran asked.

"The time has come to scrape together a sum of money, find a few servants, and make a meritorious deed with the sword, and when I return to Castile, I will still have Bavarian land."

After Pillay finished speaking, he snapped and fell drunk into the tavern.

Finally lay down, the dead drunkard, Leary sighed, and then slowly lay down on the table with a red face.

Bran called a servant and took them back to his new house, and waited until they sobered up before sending them back to the Order.

After seeing off his new friend the next day, Bran stayed alone in the house and waited for Simon to arrive.

Hilde tended to House in the stables, but was ordered to put down his work and freshen up when someone arrived, before entering his master's study.