Installing my dynasty to a merchant republic...twice?

[kadgeratnum]

Hi folks -

Have done some searching and can't find an answer. I created a vassal merchant republic in my empire. I made the first Doge be of my dynasty (maybe a mistake but oh well - I have a bit of thing for seeing my dynasty everywhere...).

I have recently gained control of a coastal area far from my original merchant republic, and I want to create a second merchant republic vassal there for the tax income. My question is: if I make a different dynasty member (one with no current affiliation to the original merchant republic) a head of this one, will it still create a separate merchant republic, or will it just stay a city? Put another way, can a dynasty rule over two separate merchant republics?

I unfortunately have to ask rather than just see what happens because I'm 500 years into an iron man game and can't risk messing this sort of stuff up...

Thanks!

 

[Naughtius Maximus]

Your dynasty can only be in one merchant republic.

You can technically make another dynasty member a doge in another merchant republic, but as soon as he dies a new patrician family arises from that MR. Your first MR will still retain your dynasty.

 

[SigurdStormhand]

When did that become a thing?

Must have been in the last two major patches because I used to do that all the time - good for a supply of emerancy relatives to plonk back in a Feudal hotseat and make my heir.

 

[Sergeant Flutter]

If what Maximus said is true, just plonk some random low-life person on there that has high stewardship and opinion on there. He'll be fine. I'd rather have two Merchant Republics, when one is controlled by a Dynast and one is controlled by a non-enlightened being, than having one where a dynast controls it.