Kaiser wanted to get new land after loss of Arles, and declared Holy War on a Jewish county in Ireland. The Jews can't get any rest no matter how far they run away. As I predicted Danzig meant war, the Kaiser attacked Egypt over some random leftover barony in county of Danzig that got to Egypt by some weird inheritance chain.
My allies king of Aquitaine and queen Sicily dragged me into a stupid fight between each other. I guess they're running out of infidels to kill.
My various allies kept dragging me into all kinds of wars - and I joined and sent my troops as I definitely owed them that for their support for my independence war.
There was this really annoying issue as son of Queen Beorhtgifu the Sword of God of Maghreb (amazing name) joined Knights Templar and wouldn't marry my sister, but also wouldn't break the betrothal.
My distant cousin who's queen of Scotland also created second title as queen of Ireland for herself. She's the first double-queen in the family, and she's still under Kaiser.
A fairly successful Yazidi event horde created Yazidi sultanate of Iraq. It's totally unrelated to Yazidi rebellion which overthrew last Sunni caliph, just in the next province over.
Sunnis had a bit of ressurgence as a Sunni Bolghar horde conquered most of Russia, most of the hordes are Sunni, and Ghaznavids are very strong. It's all very distant. The nearby Pecheneg horde settled down in Wallachia and converted to Catholicism, with so few Pechenegs left in the steppes they'll likely get absorbed into other hordes.
China turned 3 kingdoms worth of East and South India into its tributaries. Why Hindus tolerate such humiliation?
Amazingly previous Maharaja of Bengal found himself in a matrilineal marriage with a Greek Orthodox Countess Epiphania of Napoli, and that family later converted to Catholicism, so now kingdoms of Bengal and Bihar are ruled by a Greek Catholic. Unfortunately he only has a bastard son, so next in line is Buddhist Bengali uncle. It would be really funny if the Third Rome got established in Bengal. He's getting holy warred by Buddhists and Hindus, but so far he's doing OK.
All this matters mostly for choosing where third crusade will go. All targets are either faraway like Ghaznavids, or miserable like Syria or Estonia, or I'm not even sure how it would work like Orthodox Kievan Rus under a Sunni horde. Or maybe a non-Muslim target like Jewish Abyssinia or Yazidi Iraq?
National borders are not changing much, just the usual feudal ebb and flow due to cross border successions and minor skirmishes.
Catholicism is doing so well it's hard to come with a good crusade target.
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