CK II - Court physicians vanishing/dying upon succession

[Mithradates]

One line summary of your issue
Court physicians vanishing/dying upon succession

Game Version
3.0.1.1

What expansions do you have installed?
Jade Dragon,
Monks & Mystics,
The Reapers Due,
Conclave,
Horse Lords,
Way of Life,
Charlemagne,
Rajas of India,
Sons of Abraham,
The Old Gods,
The Republic,
Sword of Islam,
Holy Fury

Do you have mods enabled?
No

Please explain your issue is in as much detail as possible.
I've been noticing for a while now that whenever my characters die, my court physicians just disappear. All of a sudden I won't have one, and I can't find the one I did have. I'm not sure if it only happens to physicians who aren't landed vassals. Probably. But just now I got the opportunity to check. My character died, I had the game paused and I was organizing things as you do upon succession, and I noticed that, lo and behold, I had no court physician. I had only just made him my court physician a short time before, and never received a notification of him leaving my court. I remembered some details about the character, namely that he was a Miaphysite of Khazar ethnicity, so I did a character search. I found him, as you can see in the screenshot. Since he "died" on that very day, he could still appear in the character finder; if I had tried searching later, there would have been no trace of him. It says he died on November 3, the exact day my character died. It also says he wasn't in my court at the time; it says he was the court physician of Kuban. Which I know for a fact he was not; he was the court physician of the Empire of Italia. But something about the player character dying seems to do weird things that make court physicians suddenly die as characters not of your court anymore.

Steps to reproduce the issue.
Have your character die, then try to find your court physician.

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[Mithradates]

Ok, I have further weirdness to add here. It's three years later, and I'm looking for a high-learning character willing to come to my court and be my new court physician. And guess who I found? The man was marked dead three years earlier, now I find him alive. So, it's possible my original bug report may have been incorrect, in that physicians might not actually vanish and die, but there's another bug at work in which physicians disappear from your court for no reason when your character dies, are marked dead and then go on living. Definitely some weirdness here.

 

[jonjowett]

This has been a problem for a while now. If you want to be sure that a character will stay in your court after succession, marry them to someone. If you don't want them to have children, marry them to an over-45 woman.

The second weirdness may be caused by the fact that CK2 creates characters based on templates. It's quite possible that the "new guy" is just a near-duplicate of your previous court physician.