"Ariel" means "lion", so it's a male name. There's also an archangel by that name in the Bible and while it wouldn't be theologically correct to ascribe human sexes to angels, they are normally treated as males and so their names are male (Michael, Raphael, Gabriel etc).
I've had queens declare war on my kings and counts with vassals. Or funny things like the Pope owning land in Persia, Africa, Russia etc. At the moment, I have an Orthodox Grandmaster of the Teutonic Order.
One of my vassals is Ashraf Piast, son of Lem'an Abbas, the Muslim queen of Poland.
And the current King of (not much of) France is a Hungarian by the family name of Aba, so not even a royal. Many English nobles were, but that's my fault for reconquering England from Muslims and not watching the succession list for the women I was making vassals for lack of men. Same in Palestine.
Oh, and the Duke of Poitou has recently stopped being the Pope's foreman and now he holds half of France for no overlord but himself. :rofl: The Duke of Flanders, another Arab Catholic, remained faithful to the Hungarian King of France with loyalty 0 when everyone else rebelled (don't know, maybe or two vassals stayed faithful but I don't think so) until he finally agreed to become my vassal instead.
Makes sense, sort of, because many of the rebelling French counts are Capets, so I can sort of understand them.
Or married bishops, yeah, in my game, bishops inherited duchies and became dukes (not archbishops) but still became popes. I reloaded and fixed them with women upon inheritance (one of them applied for a woman he refused to marry thrice in a row when I told him to
), after checking the papabile list and the problem was fixed.
Also, two of my vassals have had Muslim vassals and I appointed one myself before noticing. That was the, "WTF? The Queen is Muslim?" priceless moment.
Also, whereas while Christian nobles with overlords inherit something in your realm, you can say bye to the provinces, I've witnessed a case of Muslim inheritance (the original duke was a bastard Christian son of a Muslim ruler and his Muslim brother inherited from him) without losing the province.
Unfortunately, this is all 1.04 because my non-English version won't ever have 1.05.
Wish I could just swap some files and make it English and be done with the patch. The translation sucks like hell, too. Their translators claim to be teachers with many year experience but they suck.
