Conrad of Wittelsbach

That's basically like a count.

or like a minor earl, and Conrad of Wittelsbach, the archbishop of Manns.

To a modern audience, a feud between a lord and an archbishop sounds like kind of like a theological debate, but it wasn't.

In 1184, it was an explosive total war conflict over territorial control, military fortifications, and highly lucrative tax revenues along the Sala River.

The immediate catalyst was a bulky strategic fortress that Archbishop Conrad had aggressively constructed right on the bleeding edge of Louis' territorial border.

So let's say we started building like fortresses all over the Canadian border, you know what I mean? Or, you know, a bunch of walls, but now the walls have guns.

facing Mexico.

Well, yeah, it's intended to be.