"Nice alliance you've got there; it'd be a shame if the game got rid of it"

[Butterlord1]

Okay, so the game didn't randomly get rid of the alliance, I know exactly why it ceased to exist.
I'm the king of Sicily, and making snugglebuddies with the Byzantines to avoid being conquered by them. I marry my heir to a member of the ruling dynasty and everything's nice; I've got a nice strong ally, and I needn't fear them deciding that I'm tasty.
Then I win a crusade for Jerusalem. I tell the game to distribute my titles to save me the effort, and it promptly gives my first born son, the guy with the realm-saving marriage, a bishopric. The marriage vanishes, and the alliance goes with it. I, of course, can't establish another alliance because of 'political concerns'.

Surely this cannot be working as intended. The arrange courtier marriages decision makes a point of avoiding your dynasty members, after all.

 

[Ganegrei]

The loss of the marriage and alliance is working as intended. The moral of he story is never use the distribute titles button. It is horribly broken.

 

[zijistark]

Yes, I'm thinking of disabling the vanilla 'Ask for Help Distributing Titles' decision/events, since EMF already has a 'Distribute Recently Acquired Land' that's much more careful and reliable.

 

[Maestro Ugo]

But... but, half the fun is distributing all those new titles.

 

[tfjs]

person who gave out titles gives evil laugh at destruction caused and continues plot to take over the whole kingdom Whahaha

 

[Butterlord1]

Well, it's been about twenty years since I lost my alliance, and they've yet to roflstomp me, so I think I'm relatively safe. They surely would've pounced on me when I was going through a succession if they were going to at all.

 

[Vizier One]

If you are playing SMWH map, Byzantium has no de jure claim on Sicily

 

[Butterlord1]

If you are playing SMWH map, Byzantium has no de jure claim on Sicily

I'm not, so I'm really quite confused as to why they've not yet attacked. Most of the emperors have loved me, simply becauase of my chancellors being so far up them that they were less brown-nosing as brown-bodying, but even when one of them was at -80 for his entire reign, there was nothing.
I'm not even a threat to them; I've got 15k troops on a good day, and they have 40k on an equally good day.