I beleive cause of richters possession by shaft, the belmonts beleived antoher belmont would be possessed by dracula's evil, and had the whip sent to another family that way a repeat of SOTN wouldn;t happen, the way the series was originalyl planned worked fine, cept iga had to refine it and dug his own grave.
tho for that time peroid i'm not going to say what crazy stuff the people were intro for the time peroid this all seems normal, so either richter is a little slow, or perhaps his marriage was pre-arranged? assuming any of the belmonts married.