Once you have this small but powerful empire, the world is your oyster. The Moors are islamic, so your priests will gain piety faster by converting them and you are able to call crusades against them, freeing up upkeep money, allowing you to recruit elite units cheaply and giving your successful generals very good traits and ancillaries. The best place to expand is to fight the Moors, especially if they are allied to Portugal, since this provokes Portugal into war with you and therefore allows you to take out Portugal and make a great economic centre of gravity on the Iberian peninsula. Either way, you’re going to be fighting France eventually at some point, so taking a castle there will give you a far stronger position when the time comes. If Portugal attack you, then destroy them, but you can’t predict it well, Toulouse is a good place to gamble on, since France normally fail in their first siege and since dominating the western coast of Europe is a good way to ensure you are first to the New World (although this isn’t essential to win the campaign). The first priority will be a race for the two rebel settlements, although Valencia is very well defended so ensure you have siege equipment. Spain start with two of the eight settlements on the Iberian Peninsula.
Spain are a relatively united force by recent standards, as most of the Christian kingdoms and fiefdoms are united, but the tight hold that the Moors have on southern Spain and the recent independence of Portugal mean that they are not necessarily a hugely powerful kingdom.
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