Bohemia changing dynasty?

[CondorDrake]

Hello, I do a royal marriage with bohemia before I unpause the game after start as Austria. Usually Bohemia gets a Habsburg on the throne once their Interregnum ends. But then every time, after one or two years, it says a 'King elector' rose to the throne and now Bohemia suddenly has a Podebrad as King.

Is this some new event or something? Anything I can do to avoid that from happening?

Thanks.

[Tony Costa]

It's always been like that, AI Bohemia (and player too) gets an event to replace a foreigh dynasty or the Interregnum for a local but Hussite dynasty (happened historically) thus they get Jiri of Podebrad as ruler. I don't know the exact chances of them picking that dynasty or remaining with the foreign one but I'd say it's something like 90% for Podebrad, 10% for foreign dynasty, but you can check that in the wiki.

If you're going for the personal union, marry them and keep the Bohemia diplomacy screen open, as soon as they get your dynasty claim the throne and attack ASAP. They can get the event at any moment, I even saw them get the Podebrads after a month tick of game start, but usually it takes 2-3 years for it.

[Surimi]

It is indeed a special event for Bohemia.

Bohemia can choose to keep its current ruler, but the AI won't pick it often (if at all) as historically it would have been a terrible option. At the time, there was a huge conflict going on between the Bohemian nobility and the church and they really didn't want a foreign king.

Austria often gets an mission to enforce a personal union on Bohemia later in the game (after 1500). However, Bohemia is a lot stronger in 1.12 than it used to be and may actually prove quite a difficult prospect even for Austria.

[CondorDrake]

Ok, thank you guys. Yeah it's true, Austria has been nerfed a lot in 1.12 with the Italian exit from the HRE forcing me into constant war to avoid that from happening.