Funny Maya Emperor

[berhaven]

...Well, you may say he's getting the Maya Empire crown.

Not only: he became emperor of the HRE in a recent game I was playing.

EU2 1.07 with EEP 1.4.1, I was playing England.

Spain had (as usual) hard times with the American Native States.

At some point (around 1600) Maya converted to Catholicism, and some 50 years later I got the astonishing message of a new Maya EMperor for the HRE.

Anybody has a guess about what happened?
Cheers

 

[Rhodz]

I had a Dahomey Emperor once

 

[berhaven]

Originally posted by Rhodz
I had a Dahomey Emperor once

So, the question becomes:

How does the Emperor election actually work????

 

[Havard]

Originally posted by berhaven
How does the Emperor election actually work????

Best liked (in the HRE) Catholic monarch, adjusted for a Habsburg bonus.

It makes kinda sense too, since the HRE has (before the Habsburgs became too powerful) a history of choosing "weak" candidates so that the Emperor couldn't meddle too much in the Princes affairs...

 

[berhaven]

Originally posted by Havard
Best liked (in the HRE) Catholic monarch, adjusted for a Habsburg bonus.

It makes kinda sense too, since the HRE has (before the Habsburgs became too powerful) a history of choosing "weak" candidates so that the Emperor couldn't meddle too much in the Princes affairs...

Thanks Havard,

but let me understand: a Catholic monarch doesn't need any kind of "interest" in the HRE to become the emperor?

I understand French, Danish or Polish kings tried to become emperor at a time, but - gosh - a Maya emperor really looks a bit odd!

Is there any way to have a "reasonability check"?

Something like own at least one german culture european provinces or have a boundary with the HRE.

The way it works today also explains to me why ofter I see Fernando Y Isabela becoming emperor, something that certainly doesn't fit with the rationale of chosing a "weak" candidate.

 

[Havard]

Originally posted by berhaven
Thanks Havard,

but let me understand: a Catholic monarch doesn't need any kind of "interest" in the HRE to become the emperor?

I understand French, Danish or Polish kings tried to become emperor at a time, but - gosh - a Maya emperor really looks a bit odd!

Is there any way to have a "reasonability check"?

Something like own at least one german culture european provinces or have a boundary with the HRE.

Historically there were no such check... There are examples from before the game begins of Spanish and English princes being elected King of the Romans, and neither had any HRE land.

The way it works today also explains to me why ofter I see Fernando Y Isabela becoming emperor, something that certainly doesn't fit with the rationale of chosing a "weak" candidate.

That one went out of the window when the Habsburgs became strong enough to dictate the elections (i.e. make the title "hereditary")...

 

[Jayavarman]

In EU3, there should be special "HRE Election" events, involving bribery and such. Just some random thought in a perhaps irrelevant thread.

 

[Rhodz]

The election works that the Catholic monarch with the highest relations with all HRE electors gets the HRE, however Austria usually gets it unless they've really pissed everybody off

 

[berhaven]

Thank you all folks.

I still think that a simple check on, say, belonging to the Latin tech group, should be relatively easy to do and make a lot of sense

 

[Winkelried]

Does somebody know who the Kurfürsten (electors?) are? I just can't remeber my history lessons anymore. o

 

[unmerged(6159)]

In Real Life
Count Palatine
Margrave Brandenburg
Margrave (?) Saxony
King of Bohemia
Archbishop of Cologne
Archbishop of Mainz
Archbishop of Trier

Added later
Duke of Bavaria (1648)
Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (Hanover) (1680 something)

 

[Winkelried]

Originally posted by Isaac Brock
In Real Life
Count Palatine
Margrave Brandenburg
Margrave (?) Saxony
King of Bohemia
Archbishop of Cologne
Archbishop of Mainz
Archbishop of Trier

Added later
Duke of Bavaria (1648)
Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (Hanover) (1680 something)

Thank you very much.

 

[berhaven]

This is really too funny !!!

And the Emperor is.....



.... the POPE!!!!!


And it's well into XVII century, I see the Brandeburg elector vote for the Pope