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Saturday, May 15, 2010
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Dead, and digested, Favila, the protorreino of Asturias was without a king. No sons who could inherit, had to pull genealogy to fix the siding. That, or agree and help up to a noble, but there had been problems, sure. I guess the Asturian nobility still have all the recent factional clashes visigodas each time he reported this disjuncture. Fortunately, the solution, at least this time, was simple: Alfonso (or Alonso), son of the late Pelayo.
Alfonso de Cantabria Ermesinda married the daughter of Pelayo, as saw the last two chapters. This certainly placed him in a privileged level domains Asturias. The death of his brother gave him the throne on a plate. While, as already pointed out talking about this, it is thought if not involved in his death. Alfonso I was proclaimed King (yes, at last King) of Asturias in 739.
Alfonso was born around 693, in the bosom of a noble family. His father was Pedro de Cantabria, Duke (dux) of such lands, a narrow strip of land between the mountains and the sea. His father had died in 730, so that when he inherited the kingdom of Asturias, incorporated it into their domains. However, these As you can imagine, were quite small, because the possessions south of the Cantabrian Mountains were a frequent target of the raids or aceifas Muslim. An example is the capital, Amaya (north of Burgos) had to be abandoned because of the impossibility of defending it with reasonable assurance. Pedro de Cantabria and his family fled for the north. They fought with Pelayo, winning Covadonga. And following the Germanic tradition, his son was sent to court astur to be educated. Was common, and it will in the future, the sending children to the lord's court (although the term here is not correct, as feudalism in the Peninsula, little in fact, I use it to we understand). This served a dual purpose: education at the royal court (although it was not King Pelayo, I insist that the terms used to understand) always used to be better than their own, in all areas, and the gentleman back to covering the a possible rebellion (who is as Kafir of taking up arms to his son in the hands of the enemy?). Everyone wins.
But back to Alfonso. The warmth between her father and Pelayo came to the point that they agreed to become related through their respective children. That's how Ermesinda Alfonso married, sometime between 720 and 730. Ermesinda was by him then a girl, since birth is estimated between those dates, and Peter died in 730. That is, a maximum was 10. Alfonso was, as recently, twenty years her senior, who would give him three children before he died: Fruela, Vimaranes and Adosinda (name each one more beautiful, hear). She died before her husband, who would give him time to father a bastard, if we pay attention to the sources (and you'll see why this statement at the time), called Mauregato, before his death in 757, with 60 years.
Alfonso I, "the Catholic"
Back to the dates and Fazana of our king today. As mentioned, Asturias inherited through his wife, and was the first to use the title "King of Asturias." Some people want to see the first clear demonstration of the Asturian of these kings, matrilineal inheritance. I disagree, as usual. For starters, the inheritance fell to his son Pelayo, probably because it was the greatest. And although it had been the youngest, had been beaten. In almost every territory through which passed the Germans, the inheritance passes by blood semisálica: from parents to children, passing only through of women if there were male in sight. Second point that can be dismantled this theory: Alfonso, as all the kings of Asturias to Ordoño (for the remaining 100 years yet), was elected by the nobility. As in Visigothic times, the nobles elected the new king died after the ruling. In fact, many times, the nobility was limited to consent to something that was taken as an undisputed fact possible. The monarchy was elective, but de facto hereditary. In Asturias, the same will happen. In addition, to ensure legitimacy is assumed, some sources believe that Pedro de Cantabria was descended more or less than the lineage of Recaredo (Visigoth king of 586 at 601, smart guy who decided it was time to stop playing the fool and adopt as the official religion which triumphed among the subjects, Christianity, and stop paddling upstream along Arianism).
If anything characterized the reign of Alfonso was considerable sharing of good tow to the inhabitants of the southern lands. But ... if we said before Pelayo and Favila just made acts of war because they could not, and if they made was taking advantage of moments of internal weakness, how Alfonso, a few years later, could he? Because the Emirate of Damascus, owner of the peninsular domains are had encountered a little problem: those Muslims second (read from the Arab point of view, please), the Berbers of North Africa, the bulk of the armed invasion and basically had grown, and al-Andalus was practically plunged into civil war between the rulers, the Arabs and Syrians, and those who obey, the Berbers mented. The situation came to be difficult since the assassination of Muza, governor of Tunisia and co-invasive Tariq Peninsula in 717. And the situation would be settled only after the independence of the emirate, under the Umayyad Abd ar-Rahman, at 756. Well, this little golden age will end just as Asturian Muslims are redone. But we will move forward.
In the years of Alfonso the Andalusian control of the northern peninsula was nominal. Berber garrisons marched south, thereby embarrass the governor of al-Andalus. No major problems came to Alfonso Amaya, Leo and Iria Flavia. The tactics used in those territories historiography created what has been called "the deserts of the Duero" arrive, conquests, pass a knife to Muslims and Christians get along to the safety of the mountains. Let's face it, there were four cats, and being so little was really difficult to defend a territory as large like going from Galicia to Burgos. This caused the Douro Valley, was deserted in a way. More people in Asturias is more labor, more land to plow more definitive population. And the core began to get stronger Asturias.
Alfonso In his travels, accompanied by his brother Fruela, reached the Central System, arriving to take Avila, Segovia and Salamanca. But this conquest, as we have said nothing worth: let's all together, and I am the first, back in Asturias, that house is fine.
Asturias in times of Alfonso I. Includes complimentary yesterday. Personally, I do not think your domains as police arrived to this, but good. At best, as far as the "s" of Asturias. Being generous to Vizcaya
Another consequence, surely unintended, of this policy of desertification del Duero was to create a natural barrier between Muslims and them. The main population centers were empty, making it difficult to pass largely similar extent of land with large armies without refueling points. Neither Christians nor Muslims repopulated the area, leaving as boundary line a bit thick, several hundred miles, where they faced both sides continuously over the centuries, skirmish after skirmish.>
And one more: the Douro Valley was known Gothic as Campos, as was the main area where they settled when they came to Spain three hundred years ago. Thus, most new residents brought with them their culture Asturias Visigothic well intermingled with the Hispano. If Asturias hitherto remained, at least at grassroots level, free from foreign influences, they now fully entered. And that pastiche then out of there to expand in Spain. Among other things, the Gothic culture if people knew something was fighting. A tradition that would be appreciated.
Returning a little above, we see in the image of his statue, this king is classified as "Catholic." Why hand out as a champion of Muslims? No, because those walks the North Plateau would have either. Without opposition, even I myself, look what I say. No, it was called a Catholic by his desire to build churches and monasteries, such as San Pedro de Villanueva or Santa Maria de Covadonga, now disappeared. Embellished Cangas de Onis, which remained the capital of the kingdom.
Alfonso died in 757 in the capital, Cangas de Onis. Will happen to his eldest son, Fruela I. A year earlier, Rahman I was finished with the Berber revolt, and by the way, cut all ties to al-Andalus unite with Damascus. Things were going to get difficult for the kings of Asturias: the Reconquista will enter into a deadlock for several decades.
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