Quote Originally Posted by Snoil The Mighty
...you can pre-empt that first jerusalem crusade and call one to Corduba! Keep an eye on the 'call a crusade' button on the Pope tab once it goes live if you rate well, you can make the call and get your Reconquista crusade made official.
Just be ready to move fast and get it over with asap. Otherwise, you'll have big ol' French stacks lumbering around in your territories itching to beseige something. If it can't be Cordoba, Zaragoza will serve just as well.

The French hostility to the Iberian factions is just insane. In my Spain and Portugal games, I've been forced to cross the Pyranees, capture Toulouse and Aquitane, convert them to towns, then abandon them again. That usually takes the vinegar out of the French. And if it doesn't, it makes the armies they relentless send south a lot cheaper and easier to kill. You'd think a faction getting its clock cleaned by Milan would spend more money on fighting Milan and less money on blockading my ports.