Or how losing to karma
We left Alfonso I "the Catholic" and Nipple died in 757. As we said in offspring left three men, two legitimate, Queen Ermesinda (Fruela and Vimaranes) and a bastard, Mauregato. He also had a daughter, Adosinda, also of the queen. His eldest son should succeed, Fruela, like his brother, born in 722, embodying the union in the blood of Cantabrian and Asturian.
Fruela I set about making friends wherever he went. O was very short-sighted or she was walking, I do not think everything he did throughout his eleven-year reign was done as a last resort ... Of Indeed, some sources refer to him as "the Cruel".
Fruela
The raids began early, because if something marked his reign from the beginning were the territorial disorders were present in more peripheral areas of their domains. In Christian Galicia and Basque. That image of weakness was seen by Abderrahman I, the brand new Emir of Córdoba (a guy who, bah, was called to take a position of importance in the Umayyad Caliphate, but, as passed by the sword the whole family, he dashed the plans for the future and prepared others for what became the run and disguise to the mainland and sent to the emir who ruled the area, setting up his own emirate, independent of the new Abbasid dynasty, splitting al-Andalus Caliphate, almost nothing). They sent an army to try to retake the area of \u200b\u200bGalicia in Christian hands, led by Umar and smoking, which could be a son of Abderrahman, possibly illegitimate or minor wives. Fruela But it was not for nonsense, and I think he wanted from nothing less than the infidels should come to their land to sink the nail on the head.
The confrontation between the two armies came in Pontucio or Pontuvio in Galicia. The victory by the Asturian descant. But the misery was overwhelming among the defeated Asaz: not only lost, but their general was arrested ... And beheaded by the very Fruela. What is he now hitting a little more what "the Cruel"?
guess between the internal instability of the emirate of Córdoba (every revolution needs to settle, and that of Rahman would not be less, Syrians and Berbers demanding more moral playing everywhere) and similar cold water, Muslims are the desire of traipsing off northern Spain for a season. However, namely how was the "battle." Because the sources call him anything military. Would I hundred men apiece?
You said, you said, it is rumored that among the Arab sources of the time he was named as the "murderer of believers." That has led some to think that carried out massacres of Muslims, mass executions, these things. So things past as mass crucifixions, or impaled.
We have said that the kingdom of Asturias was not to shoot rockets. Revolt was brewing in Galicia and the Basque, and a matter of time they explode. By 760 they revolted, the Basques, the Gallegos would likewise to 766. And true to his diplomatic style, the repressed as only he knows the hard way. No one knows exactly what he did, but suffice to know that no dissenting voices heard again in the two territories in nearly a decade. The left soft, smooth, like a glove. And by the way, it brought a gift Vasconia: Munia, daughter of Mr. vascón. The good of Munia is saying two things: either that she was abducted to appease the desire to fight for his people (remember what has been said on occasion in this blog, and specifically in this series, although the children referred to of the nobles), or was one of the terms of the agreement reached between the parties in dispute. From this union born child Alfonso at 760, who must wait to reach the throne that was his by right ... While the nobility do not think so.
Well, we must also recognize merit, to repopulate Galicia Miño. That's something, right?
Cordovan, Basques, Gallegos ... Do we have someone upset? Yes, why not give it a slap on the wrist to the clergy? Well said and done. Instead of going hand in hand with the church as his father, decided that they were easing customs and that it was time to follow the rule that dictated Rome. Do you know where they gave? Then in the second place else to hurt. And since this is the pocket, and there not grasped. What reform was sent regarding the marital life of priests. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, for those years, although recommended, was not "mandatory" that the clergy were celibate. Ie, could be openly married. Fruela cut off the gravy train: banned religious marriages and ordered the separation of those who already have accomplished. Very unwise, morally acceptable, but not very intelligent. And nothing served only to alienate the estate: OK, could not marry, but that were concubines, mistresses and other women of loose morals.
Image courtesy of "History sarcastic, specifically Article" Fruela I, the first Spaniard . " Does anyone else think that the author has hit the jackpot?
But it was not all sticks for the clergy. It also ordered the construction of monasteries (Benedictines in this case), such as San Vicente de Oviedo, churches, like San Salvador de Oviedo, or convents, such as San Miguel de Pedroso. In fact, the first is of particular importance: it was the germ of the city of Oviedo. And Fruela soon saw the strategic value of the enclave, and planned the transfer of capital from Cangas to there. But not take place.
Well, we have angered Muslims, Galicia, Basques and religious. Why do not we earned the enmity of the nobility? Come, go, but also in style, big time. As at the time of the Visigoths. Do we remember to Vimaranes, Fruela little brother? It turns out that began to fall more to the aristocracy of the kingdom than the king. Fruela, that as a good medieval king had the impression of seeing conspiracies against him everywhere, it believed that was brewing around Vimaranes. Was it real or just end up becoming afraid that true? Anyway, decided to cut the root of the problem attracted to Cangas and there Vimaranes it aired in person at 765. And immediately, the storm broke, carrying out a purge notable among the Asturian nobility ...
You can imagine what was the end of this king. Like any good paranoid ultraviolent, ended up murdered. By his own nobles. In the year 768. At least received a decent burial in the church of San Salvador that he ordered to be built. I know other people who had thrown his body to the dogs or pigs.
And after the regicide, because as usual, a dead king, king post. As already mentioned, the nobility decided. He decided that the young Alfonso was not going to be king, and less if he would to stand in as his father. So he chose to cousin, Aurelio. Ie Fruela son of Perez, the brother of Alfonso I, both sons of Pedro de Cantabria.
Finally, notice to mariners: Ladies and Gentlemen who write about Fruela I of Asturias, please stop confusing him with Fruela Perez, his uncle, because then you try to compare information and go crazy. So if you, dear readers, at some point find that Vermudo I (or shorts) or Rodrigo Frolaz are children of Fruela I heed not, have been bundled with the lucky moniker. Fruela I "the Cruel" had only one son, Alfonso (to be known as Alfonso II "the Chaste"), and a daughter, Jimena, of which little is known, which upon the death of his father, his mother sent his brother at a monastery in Galicia, to avoid greater evils.
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