The known world, following the death of Emperor Diego "the Holy":
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Diego had been the fourth Emperor of Hispania, but he was the first to officially proclaim the Empire of Carpathia. Due to the laws of gavelkind, this guaranteed that his domains would be split up upon the end of his reign, with his eldest son Fadrique inheriting Hispania and his second son Rodrigo taking Carpathia. Diego's third son Tello is now king of Galicia, and the fourth brother, Sancho, inherited the duchy of Valencia.
This is a time of religious turmoil. Emperor Diego's predecessors had been firmly Catholic, but prior to his accession he fell in with the Old Christians. Early in his reign he, as did the rest of the secret society, proclaimed his true Orthodox faith, and he devoted much effort to converting his subjects as well. One subject with whom he had no success, though, was his heir Fadrique, who remained Catholic until, shortly before Diego's death, a wave of Monothelitism swept the imperial court. From this Emperors Fadrique and Rodrigo are now Monothelites, while their brothers and their sister Mencia remain Orthodox.
But this is by no means the whole of the House of Jimena, which at the moment counts 176 living members. Notable relations include:
Count Alvaro of Almansa, offspring of a matrilineal marriage between the previous Count of Almansa and the younger daughter of Count Gonzalo of Marrakech, who despite being the firstborn son of Emperor Fernando II predeceased him and left no sons. This branch of the family was consequently supplanted in the imperial succession.
Count Alfonso of Soria, until about two years ago King of Galicia. His mother's father Hugo was appointed King of Galicia to ensure that his inheritance of France would be as a Hispanian vassal. (Hugo's wife was a daughter of Emperor Fernando I, married matrilineally.) Soria was not originally part of this patrimony, though: it was once held by Alfonso's half-brother, who died in prison with no descendants or close relatives on his father's side of the family, and thus had his lands taken by his mother.
Duke Antso of Beja, also Count of Zaragoza. Emperor Fernando I granted Zaragoza to a grandson of King Gartzia V of Navarre, and it passed to his daughter, then to her son (in the male line, a grandson of King Sancho of Aragon), who was awarded the duchy, then to his son Antso. Interestingly, Alagón and Caspe, despite being within the county of Zaragoza, have never sworn allegiance to this line of counts, instead owing homage to Navarre. I think it's an artifact of AI-controlled Castile and Navarre running two simultaneous holy wars and thereby effecting a partition of the area.
King Fruela of Poland. His grandmother was a daughter of Emperor Fernando I who matrilineally married the heir to the throne of... Serbia! Her son was granted Poland after a revocation to ensure his lands didn't go independent. Fruela has never ruled Serbia, thanks to a faction-backed usurpation, but he still holds court in Ras. Yeah, there's a lot of border gore.
Count Gutierre of Orleans, formerly King of France. His prospects as a ruler once looked much better than they turned out. His mother was the Duchess of Sicily, but she was overthrown in 1194 by Waldensian rebels who, as far as I can tell, just sat on Malta long enough to win the war and take the whole duchy. He inherited France from his father, who got it upon the death of his father, Emperor Rodrigo, but was himself overthrown by one of his vassals in 1202. Maybe because he's slow and ugly.
Queen Inés of Lusitania. Only legitimate child of her mother, the elder daughter of Fernando II's third son's only son. She's the daughter of Count Alfonso of Soria and the wife of Duke Sancho of Valencia.
Duchess Jimena of Granada. She gets her lands from her mother's side, where she's the great-great-granddaughter of King Sancho of Aragon, but her father was also a Jimena, officially: he was King Fruela's elder brother, who predeceased their father.
Count Ramiro of Ponthieu. His father was a younger brother of King Fruela who got Ponthieu from his father by unexplained means.
Queen Toda of Valencia. Queen Inés's aunt, who also holds her kingdom through the partition of Fernando II's lands.
Duke Alfonso of Franconia, great-grandson of Emperor Fernando I's sister, who matrilineally married into the Salian dynasty. This branch of the family also inherited the county of Olomouc.
Wali Bishoi of Shahr-e Sukhteh. Yes, he's part of my dynasty. He's a great-grandson of the first King of Jerusalem (the product of a matrilineal marriage between Emperor Fernando I's other sister and a son of Leofwine Godwinsson), who kept a ducal-level throne after the Fatimids reconquered the Holy Land and saw his family members appointed to diverse other positions within the Caliphate. Another branch of this same family returned to Hispania and received the duchy of Etelköz in an unsuccessful attempt to see the Duchy of Jerusalem return to Christendom through natural inheritance, and although that title was lost to a vassal uprising those cousins retain a barony within the Empire.
Duke Diego of Brittany, offspring of a matrilineal marriage between the previous Duke of Brittany and a daughter of Emperor Fernando II.
King Gartzia VII of Navarre. Though Navarre has continuously been Jimena-ruled since 905, the legitimate descendants of Gartzia V are now extinct in the male line, and Gartzia VII is the paternal great-great-great-grandson instead of King Sancho of Aragon.
King Guillén of Hungary. Great-grandson of the Piast scion I enfeoffed with Hungary (and later Granada) to allow the incorporation of Poland. His grandfather matrilineally married Fernando II's granddaughter (by his third son).
Countess Inés of El-Arish, daughter of a beneficiary of the Second Crusade, kin to the then-king of Aragon.
Count Johann of Monreal, a beneficiary of the Third Crusade, son of a matrilineally married daughter of the aforementioned King Hugo.
Count Martín of Plock, uncle of King Guillén. His father held Plock as part of the spoils of a holy war against the pagans and passed it down upon death.
And, by the way, some guy showed up to wage war on Jiuquan about six months ago. I'm kind of excited about that for some reason.
