Assasinations

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Originally posted by Txini
Or your Heirless Brother, giving you his throne

Again, though, in most instances where a brother or son felt strongly enough that he should rule instead of you, it meant war, not assassination.

Even in questionable cases like the death of William II Rufus, nothing is proven. Assuming it wasnt an accident and that Henry I had paid for it, it still doesnt fit here. Like Beckett's death, it was a murder by a non-assassin "unit". Thats why it might work as a game option in certain cases (I pay a corrupt knight to kill a king the people, barons, Pope, and other kings hate anyway and with good reason), but not as a "I build an assassin unit this round and try to kill my brother with it the next."

 

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Originally posted by Txini
Or your Heirless Brother, giving you his throne

Then the question is, who had him assasinated?

 

[Txini]

Originally posted by Judas Maccabeus
Then the question is, who had him assasinated?

With no doubt his jealous wife

Wel barbarossa I only was adding to the suggestion as per random event that the assasination will kill or your fauvorite offspring or your heriless brother, well counting also that to be playing as other you should be a monarch

For example you are son of the King of France and the Queen of...Poland in example, so one brother inherits one kingdom and the other the other, and if one dies heirless the other will get both

 

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Originally posted by Txini
With no doubt his jealous wife

Wel barbarossa I only was adding to the suggestion as per random event that the assasination will kill or your fauvorite offspring or your heriless brother, well counting also that to be playing as other you should be a monarch

For example you are son of the King of France and the Queen of...Poland in example, so one brother inherits one kingdom and the other the other, and if one dies heirless the other will get both

I get it. Yes, random event is much better than medieval ninjas running wild like MTW.

 

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Originally posted by Txini
Or your Heirless Brother, giving you his throne

Or you could get "framed" for an assassination (or murder depending on how it is viewed) like when two little princes sort of vanish from the Tower of London...

 

[Earl Uhtred]

That tale about Edward II having a plumber's iron rammed up his jacksie is almost certainly a prurient myth. There is one reference to it and it's a very dodgy one, a highy unpleasant sensationalist 'account' full of obviously fabricated elements by someone who was nowhere near at the time. (Forgive me, I've forgotten exactly what and who it was )

William Rufus is the only possible post-Conquest example I can think of. It was quite common in Saxon days, however, and the concept of the feud, the attack on the enemy's hall, was still a powerful one. What's more, Saxon kings would tactically assassinate potential Welsh threats as a matter of policy.