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to lead against the common enemy. Other scholars have said, that Pelayo may have been a Cantabrian relative, defending the western access to the Duchy through his own county seat, as that part of the modern province of Asturias was part then of the Cantabrian duchy and the Cantabria of classic Latin
206:) started a rebellion against the Berber garrison, which they had managed to establish over the mountain passes in neighbor Asturias, Dux Peter and other western Galician nobles supported the election of Alfonso as new king or 157:), and even this has been challenged as a possible politically motivated fiction created to support his descendants' later claim to exclusive kingship. He was the father of King 237:
Adefonsus, Pelagi gener, reg. an. XVIIII. Iste Petri Cantabriae ducis filius fuit; et dum Asturias venir Ermesindam Pelagii filiam Pelagio proecipiente, accepit.
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practice to send noble children to the royal court, this was thus a tacit admission of Pelayo's regality. According to the
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record. At any rate, Cantabria and the rest of what would be called Asturias merged as one realm. After the
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Alfonso later succeeded to the Asturian throne and was the first to use the title of king. While
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altogether from Asturias, it seems likely that Peter sent his son to the court of Pelayo at
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According to the Muslim chroniclers, in the year 714,
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scholars would call his descendants the Beni Alfons (
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Duke of Cantabria
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