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Jul 18, 2001
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Lost conquered Papal provinces when Pope died

I did a search and couldn't find this, so here goes...

I declared war on a Papal State's vassal and the Pope came to his defense. After some fighting I conquered Rome and another Papal province as well as some of his vassal's provinces and had not yet made peace.

Then the Pope died.

I immediately lost control of the two Papal provinces although I was still in control of the conquered vassal provinces.

Is this how its supposed to happen? A ruler dies and his heir gets all the dead ruler's provinces back that had someone else’s flag on them?

As an aside, a bit later I noticed that a dead Pope is ruling in Rome and his death date is around the time of our war. So, I was either fighting an undead Pope at the start of the war (shouldn't I get extra piety? :D), or the Pope that died during our war became undead.

I know the Pope problem has been brought up before, but I thought I would mention it in case my loss of the provinces was somehow related to the problem of dead Popes hanging around.
 
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Let's focus on the loosing control of provinces, one bug/thread and all that.

Does it happen with all rulers or is it a problem with the Pope only? If it hits the pope, might the same happen with bishopries?
 
Grosshaus said:
Let's focus on the loosing control of provinces, one bug/thread and all that.

Does it happen with all rulers or is it a problem with the Pope only? If it hits the pope, might the same happen with bishopries?

Not sure if its only Pope, or if it is Bishoprics and others as well. I'll have to use the 'Die' command tonight and check.