Quote Originally Posted by Tony Furze
Everything has been going well-I press Shift to check provinces.

At 1152 I press the End Year and there s a rebellion headed by Gen. Ferrer without any warning at all. The King , Felipe, has only two crowns and even went down to one, until Cyrenecia was taken.

Was the rebellion due to the weak King? All provinces are well above 100%.
Remember, provincial loyalty (happiness) has no bearing on civil wars. Civil wars occur because of low loyalty among your generals and heirs.

Low provincial loyalty causes revolts, that are either loyalist (including faction reappearances), religious, bandit or peasant.

Quote Originally Posted by Tony Furze
nara: the generals from the old regime (Sancho II) remained loyal, but those I trained were really really low level types (as macsen points out) Ferrer stood out having 3 shields of loyalty.
It's a good idea to have a spy in every single province to counterspy against enemy agents. These spies can be trained by framing those disloyal generals for treason. They gain valour from doing this also. If you have a low influence faction leader this is especially important as 90% of your newly trained units will start out with low loyalty. If you keep training and do nothing about these disloyal generals they will contribute to your disloyal generals outnumbering your loyal ones at which point a civil war is likely.