I also thought only French, Norse, Norman and Hungarian were the only eligible cultures for random adventurers, but apparantly...
...he does qualitfy. And jesus, these MTTHs are ridiculously fast.
Thanks for the quick reply mate... Hmmm, it seems I'll just have to deal with it for future games. As for this one, happily, I'm just a duke with 1k troops, so when he launched his host, he came with 1,4k troops. This is the first time I'm happy about gavelkind (it may divide the father's land, but creates reliable allies, in the face of your brothers) as I asked for help from my brothers & they both came, host destroyed, random Catalan dude banished, I swim in his cash. Thanks again for the clarification & sorry if this wasn't the right place to post that picture