Thank you! I am glad to hear that there is some penalty for being a liar and a sneak, though it may be minor. It has been a lot longer than a decade and the french haven't been listed as at war woth anyone that I have noticed. Their troups thinned a bit after a crusade, but that is all.

I'm thinking that something will pop up and let me know if they fight another alli of mine, am I correct? The byzantines are kicking butt in the east, but the west has been pretty static except for my incursions into the denmark and the scandinavia (all of great britain is mine along with Aragon)

You should be able to drop and select break ties. That wouldn't be a hard mod or fix.