Muslim Galicia? o.0 I'd imagine it must have been via Jihad where a Duke was main contributor. Bit interesting though.
Wait.... that still doesn't work either.... What happened?! o.0
Also notice the Duchy of Castille, suspiciously lacking a King.
As far as I could reconstruct the events, it was a story for the gods:
The King of Galicia inherited the Castillian Throne from his brother (and infant son), who were both murdered on the orders of a mayor (probably backed by one of the Jimenas). So far, that's our usual Iberian infighting.
But this is where things get interesting, for the old King had in fact
two sons, the older one being a bastard. He somehow avoided succumbing to a bad case of dagger himself, and took control of the Duchy (but not the Kingdom) of Castille.
It is not clear wether he inherited it from his brother (being a legitimized bastard) or wether it was a well timed plot, but in any case, he got it and promptly raised his flags in rebellion against the Usurper, killing him and his army.
So we now have an independent Duchy of Castille, and the crown of Galicia (and Castille, sans any actual holdings) being passed on to a Portugese, who rules for 2 years before loosing a Jihad to a Maghreb Emir called "Mali the Confessor". This was 10 years before the above picture was taken, so Galicia stayed a Kingdom under Mali for quite a while.
Fast forward 20 years (the time my game is in now, and the time I'm trying to reconstruct the events), it turns out that Galicia is now a proper Sultanate under Mali's son. Castille is still independent under the Bastard's son, who's also married to his fathers half-sister (eww), the old Princess of Castille. The Crown was lost together with the Galician one when Mali took over. The guy who lost it (the son of our kinslayer-Galician) has ironically fled to the court of the Bastard Duke's son, which must make for interesting dinner conversations (remember that time when my father killed your father who killed my grandfather?). Anyway, checking Mali, it appears that he died a Maghreb Muslim.
So my guess is that our "confessor", despite being born and raised on the african coast, was of european culture (and possibly religion, hence his nickname) at some point in time. He was then dragged into the Jihad as part of his liege's forces and did an admirable job killing his far-away brothers of the faith, before he finally chose to convert to Maghreb Culture/Islam in the catholic castillian highlands of northern Iberia.
Guess he was just a rebel at heart
