It is quite certain that Spain followed France in the adoption of the Gothic Style of art and archeticture. Spanish Gothic would flourish and become another type of Gothic, appearing, for example in Germany, in the cathedral in Cologne. Although it began as an open attempt to mimic the French artistry, the Spanish Gothic architect went at least a few steps further, adding greater ornatmentaion and capitulating to Moorish influences still suffusing the terrirtory of Spain.
The term Moors most likely originated from the fact these Arab people, came to Spain across the Straight of Gibraltar from Morocco. They brought no woman with them and took as their wives and slaves the much fairer skinned Galicians living in Spain at that time. Thus a whole new race emerged, the Moors, and so an adventure that would affect every nuance of the civilization of Spain for 900 years.
The glorious Cathedral in Toledo is notable here as the city of Toledo became a stronghold for the Moors for over four centuries. Suffice to say, the Moorish intracacies are so tightly entertwined with the French-mastered Gothic Architecture it is hard not to slot it into a whole new category. Still, the vaulted ceiling and the general chemistry of these Cathedrals, their celebration of light and space and the Glory of God, necessitates keeping the Spanish examples under the greater heading of Gothic, though the Moors as well as the Spanish of course put their own stripe on the face of the ever shifting definition of Gothic Architecture.