284) BUG: Marrying a widowed daughter gives marriage duty again

[Duuk]

Pimping Your Daughter

You get a gold bonus for marrying your eldest daughter off. It's a fairly large bonus.

No matter how many times she's married old guys that died.

I keep marrying her to people in my court (she's my spymaster and I'll be damned if I'm giving her up! ), but every time the Chancellor dies (she always seems to marry him... she must come with the office, etc), I get $150 free bucks.

Not that I'm opposed to free money, but really now.

 

[Grosshaus]

Anybody have any historical info on how the marriage duty worked with widows? This won't be reported before that.

EDIT More explanatory thread titles would be nice

 

[Varyar]

Yeah, I've noticed the same. A bit of an exploit.

 

[Ernst]

Sorry I'm afraid my English is not good enough. Is "marriage duty" a synonym of dowry ?

 

[FrEDa]

Sorry I'm afraid my English is not good enough. Is "marriage duty" a synonym of dowry ?

It's the opposite I think, dowry is when you give away money right?

/F

 

[Duuk]

Yeah, I was a bit confused by that too.

If it were a _dowry_, I should be paying for the honor of selling her off.

I'm not sure why I _get_ money for marrying her out.

 

[Theodotus1]

Links regarding dowry and medieval women:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowry

http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/society/A0816030.html

http://www.fordhamprep.com/socstud/women_in_the_middle_ages.htm

 

[Ernst]

Well, if this marriage duty is in fact a dowry, then that's true you do not earn money by marrying daughters and sisters. On the contrary those little female rats bring a fairly large part of your patrimony with them. Often it was whole cities, counties or even duchies that were leaving with kings' daughters.

As for widows, I think they would take back their dowries and trousseaus when coming back to their father/brother's court after their spouse's death, or at least a part of it. This sometimes led to very hard negociations when the dowry was important.

 

[Cat Lord]

I mark it as a bug, but it may be just an exploit.

Cat