I inherited Ancona after I married the countess of Ancona and inherited it later. I also married the Duchess of Burgundy who became my current character’s mother and now I get to gain Burgundy on her death. Germany keeps falling to revolts and lost a lot of land to the Norse. The Ummayads are getting super strong so I had to protect France from them. Lotharingia fell to a Norse invasion so I moved the first crusade to it. I got my benefactor some land in lower Lorraine. He died so now my son because the new ruler of the land. A random conqueror woman somehow defeated the pope and exiled from the land. I decided to give him Ancona since I didn’t want to have it. He then almost immediately lost it to the new conqueror. The Byzantines lost Anatolia to the Fatimids who also failed to conquer Egypt and also have a weak claim on the Ummayads for some reason. The orthodox conqueror woman then went ham somehow taking all of Hungary and also taking back all of Anatolia from the Fatimids. She also somehow got what was left of the kingdom of Arles. I also helped the children’s crusade who with their 99,000 death stack took the kingdom of Jerusalem. After they won he is left with 1,000 left with all of his vassals being catholic and Levantine with children who are Muslim. I didn’t know the Iron Century start could get this crazy. 

I tried to do a England game as Æthelstan and finally got him an heir. The game quickly got crazy lol