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What affects? Does Castile decide to take it and blockade Portugal from its sources of grain, i.e Sicily and Egypt?
What affects? Does Castile decide to take it and blockade Portugal from its sources of grain, i.e Sicily and Egypt?
The Castilians were at that time quite busy with their own re-conquist. They were still battling the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula (Granada) I do not believe they were in any shape to dictate to the Portuguese what they could and could not do.
The Portuguese had just recently defeated the Castillians (1385) so they felt very confident in themselves.
I think the author of that analysis may have misinterpreted nr 5, the new nobility owed their titles to João I.I read an interesting analysis over at the Paradox Forums. I'll try to find it, but the author's view is that Ceuta was taken to keep it out of the hands of Castile. Apparently, Castile had Gibralter for a few years before this expedition, and that Portugal took it because they were afraid that Castile would eventually take Ceuta and Gibraltar and cut Portugal off from its grain imports.
EDIT: Here it is: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showpost.php?p=9806934&postcount=1