Quote Originally Posted by Mr Frost
The idea of an Inquisitor executing a prince of a powerful faction is ahistorical nonsense , let alone the King himself !
There may have been the rare exception in very unusual circumstances , however Kings and Princes led armies of very violent men and generally killed those who threatened them at the earliest convienience .
An inquisitor whom tried to condem and execute a King at the head of his crusading army would have been made a very interesting footnote in history as a madman who made a mistake of biblical proportions :P
I agree, this whole "burn the heir" and "burn the general leading a crusade" stuff is silly. This can't be an intentional game design... more likely a bug in the targeting script for the campaign AI.

I don't have the game yet (should arrive next Tues.), but I'm thinking of playing non-Catholic factions to avoid this nonsense until a patch is released.

The inquisition orders targeted "civilians" .
Catholic Preists in even remotely good standing were nearly immune and a full Cardinal was untouchable {only the Pope can really judge them} . For an inquisition to start burning catholic preists would be to defy the Pope and that would have resulted in the inquisitors being stripped of possition and likely , flesh too . A member of the Catholic preisthood had to screw up pretty bad to be fair game for inquisitors .
Well, it did happen when a priest p.o.'d the higher-ups badly enough (look up "Urbain Grandier" on wikipedia), but not often. Maybe the CA devs have been watching too many Ken Russell movies.