Obviously foreign royals are going to scrap your name from their will the moment you start sending armies into their territory. You are after all explicitly making it clear that you intend to kill their entire family.Originally Posted by sir_schwick
If you want to wipe out a royal bloodline and still get the inheritance, you'll have to be a bit more subtle... one well-placed assassin can bring you more profit than an entire army. Also, I hear that catholic kings make for a particularly nice little fire, when found to be not-so-pious after all.
Speaking of inheritances through marriage, I once had a very interesting case of that (at least I can think of no other explanation). In my HRE campaign I had made war upon the Sicilians for the possession of Naples. Having achieved my goal, I made peace with them again and let one of their dynasty marry a German princess.
Now my Emperor was in his early sixties and it would take a few more years for his son to come of age when he died, leaving the rule to his brother. Unfortunately, this brother was only two years younger and also died before the aforementioned heir had come of age. So the Duke of Flanders was elected Emperor next, which in itself was not so bad, since he was a pretty good ruler.
However, when I checked the map I suddenly realized that Naples had turned grey again! Apparantly, upon the death of the last Emperor of the first bloodline, the Sicilians decided they now had a right to claim back their former province, along with all the troops in it. Suffice to say I was irked to lose a full stack of Viking troops which had been assembled in Naples to await redeployment in garrisons across the Empire. Nonetheless it was a fun experience, witnessing a faction inheriting land without the former owner actually being wiped out.
Most of the Vikings were destroyed when they attacked (my) Rome, though.
A sad loss.
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