Faction Heir dies as soon as I load saved Game

When I load my game as Reikland my faction heir Rudolph dies. As soon as its loaded the first thing I see is his strat model falling over and a heroic death and new faction heir message dropping down the side. I have a saved game for each of the last three turns so that I can avoid bugs and since autosave is turned off, but this occurs in all three of them. I would hate to start a new game as them since this is my third game as Reikland, so any help would be appreciated.

What patch are you running?

Oh yeah 1.4.4 english translation with music.

Post the text file with the general's line.