There is one more thing about excom that baffles me. I am now playing the Danish early expert vanilla V 2.0. The pope kept in the shadow for quite a time. I conquered Saxony, Brandenburg, Pomerania, Frankonia, Lorraine, Friesland, Swabia and only when I tried Burgundia the pope did issue an excom warning. What took him so long? (it's question 1). Moreover, I had a warning, so I took a couple of years' pause (it is NOT 10 years as the warning demanded), but then my king, and in a year the pope died. So I invaded Switzerland, and I didn't get excommed (!!!), but instead one more warning. Does it mean that when your king/pope dies the warnings are made void (as well as the excom is lifted), so the (new) pope has to warn the (new) king again?