Once late in the game (14something) Papacy was the only faction left (except me,of course). The Pope sent me money EVERY YEAR for five or six years. It didn't do him any good, though.
As you see, my empire has expanded but I'm not satisfied somehow. In my wars with Italians and the English I lost my best four-star general, survived an exhausting ten-year long excom and now I'm at peace with everybody. Now I have to trim my armies into shape and get rid of the new Emperor. He isn't likely to get any male heirs (as I have noticed, 2 daughters born one after another in 2 consecutive years is a sign of future sonlessness) so I have to send him on a suicidal mission - yet I have no enemy to rely upon in that. I wish for no hostilities with the English and the Italians - they have large navies and I finally want to start some trade. So it's got to be either the Huns or Aragonese. But the former are too far for my monarch to reach in the nearest future (his trip there would last for ten years at least) and the latter are my ally. Besides if my king is not killed or captured in the first attack I might face another excom in case I repeat it. Well, perhaps the excom wouldn't last as my king would be dead, so my choice is probably the almost-ex-ally.
At present I wish for no war, but a decade or two of steady development, as I had neither money no desire to attend to it while the war was raging.
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