WTF happened to England

[Ataraxis]

So I started as a duke of Saxony in HRE and after failing independence rebellions and having my family breed like rabbits for awhile I decided to start taking shots at Denmark who seemed to be failing apart. I take a look at the king and see a interesting claim on his hands... The theocracy of England . At this point I was confused and interested and wanted to look into England's situation and after being surprised that England had wrest a small amount of control back from Norway I saw that the current bishop-king had control of a single church town which was not the counties capital... and this particular county was in wales... the bishop-king doesn't even have his own county... and isn't even apart of the England controlled territory... how does this happen?

 

[Rougeman]

i did this as the king of ireland on england, gave a claimant a theocracy and then pressed his claim, huge rebellion followed

EDIT: so basically it happened because someone pushed a bishop's claim on the throne, and succeeded, most likely using the factions system

 

[unmerged(587143)]

If I had to guess, a vassal really liked a priest who had a claim on the throne of England and successfully led a revolt, so now England is basically one giant church.

 

[Fishy101]

I had something similar happen to Scotland in my current game while I wasn't paying attention. This is going to make it really difficult to take over Scotland.

If you intend to take England, I would recommend you do so fast, before all the claimants die out.

 

[unmerged(281782)]

Yeah, I've noticed this as well, it seems one of the Godwins is bishop, and Lancaster attempts to put him on throne almost every game for me.

 

[Yakdast]

So I started as a duke of Saxony in HRE and after failing independence rebellions and having my family breed like rabbits for awhile I decided to start taking shots at Denmark who seemed to be failing apart. I take a look at the king and see a interesting claim on his hands... The theocracy of England . At this point I was confused and interested and wanted to look into England's situation and after being surprised that England had wrest a small amount of control back from Norway I saw that the current bishop-king had control of a single church town which was not the counties capital... and this particular county was in wales... the bishop-king doesn't even have his own county... and isn't even apart of the England controlled territory... how does this happen?

This stuff happens. I once had France (or whatever was left of it) ruled by a Capet bishop.

 

[Rougeman]

if you want it to become a kingdom again you can take king-bishop's main holding (the bishopric) and he'll take a random county from one of his vassals, most likely he'll take one with the castle as the capital, and become a King