No, it will not be. If you bring in reinforcements in an attempt to lift the siege, it will be considered an attack and king Alphonso will be down to 4 stars. If your castle is assaulted, I think it is not considered a defense, as defense is meant to be field defense, not assault defense, and he gets 4 stars only again.
As pointed out, the best of use of your king's field defense specialty is to invade Cordoba with as big an army as you can muster, which in 99% of all cases will cause the Almohads to retreat (when significantly outnumbered the AI retreats, and them counter attacks with a bigger army), and then then use his maximum stars when they attempt to retake the province.
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