Crusades?

[EatYerGreens]

Moving on a couple of years, here's the results of Spain's attack on Naples.
As mentioned peviously, it's actual destination was Sicily. An abject lesson
on not setting your sights more than one province deep into enemy territory...



And they didn't come back for seconds...

Here's a close up showing the remnants of both crusades.



Now a funny thing happened on the alliance front. I have a screeny of the
Italians accepting a marriage proposal I made to them, very close to the
screeny of the Spanish declaring Crusade on me. I think it was regarded as
being just before Spain went from being allied to both me and the Italians to
being at war with me. That must have been the marriage of my Emperor,
Constantine XI.

It was some years before the Crusade marker finally appeared, in Venice.
During this time, the Italian doge proposed a marriage of his daughter to the
Emperor's younger brother. Take a look at this next screenie and note the
flashing icon indicating the Italian proposal conflicts with their alliance to
Spain, while I'm at war with Spain.


EDIT: Sadly, the flashing red border around Spain's shield doesn't show here,
due to the timing of the F2 keypress.




Spain's African army had finished off the re-emerged Almos, hitherto next
door to my forces in Egypt and neutral to me. Being allies, they stopped
there. Once they had declared war on me with the crusade, I waited a while
but eventually attacked Cyrenacia and it was not until that point that the
Italians cancelled our treaty and went to being neutral with me. I think this
was little more than a year after the second of the two marriages, so that
was a close shave for my younger heir. I continue to trade with them in 4
ports and they have ships in key locations, so I was lucky things didn't turn
nasty. We don't share a land border yet and they're probably third-last on my
conquest list. Sicily second last (see above), Pope last of all.

So, in summary, while a state of war existed between Byz and Spain, thanks
to Crusade declaration but with years to go before forces meet, Italy could
marry off a Princess to me, even though it conflicted with the existing Italy-
Spain alliance. Seems to be the only situation where one side can have two
allies who are at war with one another.

Not until a province was conquered (Cyrenacea) did the Italian stance
become invalid and oblige them to cancel the treaty.