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This shed light on it all, this is not so much a bug as your king being poor in his choice of cultural inventions.
if you press the little candle to the right of your characters portrait you will be taken to the french culture innovation screen, here you will see under the civic tab that the Casus Belli has not been discovered and is the key to unlocking de jure county wars.