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  Asturias — FactMonster.com
Alfonso I, Spanish king of Asturias - Alfonso I (Alfonso the Catholic), 693?–757, Spanish king of Asturias (739–57).
Alfonso II, Spanish king of Asturias - Alfonso II (Alfonso the Chaste), 759–842, Spanish king of Asturias (791–842), grandson...
Carlos, prince of the Asturias - Carlos, 1545–68, prince of the Asturias, son of Philip II of Spain and Maria of Portugal.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Asturias,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Carlos 1545-68, prince of the Asturias, son of Philip II of Spain and Maria of Portugal.
Alfonso I (Alfonso the Catholic), 693?-757, Spanish king of Asturias (739-57).
Alfonso II (Alfonso the Chaste), 759-842, Spanish king of Asturias (791-842), grandson of Alfonso I. He established his capital at Oviedo, which his father, Fruela I, had founded.
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 Alfonso II of Asturias Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Alfonso II (759-842, king 791), Alfonso I's reputed grandson, bears the name of "the Chaste."
The Arab writers who speak of the Spanish kings of the north-west as the Beni-Altons, appear to recognize them as a royal stock derived from Alfonso I. The events of his reign are in reality unknown.
Poets of a later generation invented the story of the secret marriage of his sister Ximena with Sancho, count of Saldana, and the feats of their son Bernardo del Carpio.
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 Relatives of D.T. Rogers(b. 1943) - pafg473 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
King Alfonso III of Asturias, Galicia & Leon [Parents] was born in 848.
King Ordono I of Asturias [Parents] was born in 830 in,,Spain.
King Ramiro I of Asturias [Parents] was born in 790.
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 Asiatic Calendar (History of the World)
Alfonso II (the Chaste), 759-842, king of Asturias and Alfonso I's grandson (791-842), established his capital at Oviedo and continued the struggle against the Moors.
Alfonso III (the Great), 838?-911?, king of Asturias (866-911?) recovered LE›N from the Moors, but after his forced abdication it was divided among his sons.
Alfonso V (the Noble), 994?-1027, king of Le›n (999-1027), chartered (1020) the city of Le›n, but he was killed in the siege of Viseu.
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 Alfonso I of Asturias
Alfonso I was a King of Asturias (739-757)
He is said to have married Ormesinda[?], daughter of Pelayo, who was raised on the shield in Asturias as king of the Visigoths after the Moorish conquest.
He is also said to have been the son of Peter of Cantabria[?], duke of Cantabria.
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 Asturias
The geography of Asturias appears to be a geological explosion towards the sky.
Southern Asturias is separated from Castilla y Leon by the Cordillera Cantabrica mountain barrier.
Eastern Asturias is known for its proximity to the sea and the mountains.
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 tScholars.com | Alfonso I of Asturias   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Alfonso I (more rarely Alonso), called the Catholic (el Católico), was the King of Asturias from 739 to his death in 757.
He was son of Duke Peter of Cantabria, and held many lands in that region.
Alfonso intended it this way; he wished to leave such a zone where any invading army would find it too difficult to survive.
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 Siete Partidas 1251-1265
In 1251 Alfonso commissioned a group of jurists to effect the legislative reform envisioned by his father, Fernando III.
Castro: Alfonso's doctrine of tolerance is taken from the Koran; fosters "vital and legal harmony" among believers; an expression of a modus vivendi, not of theology).
Compiled, says Alfonso, "with the advice and general consent of the archbishops and bishops and noblemen and most honorable experts of law that we could find, and others who were in our court and our kingdom".
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 thePeerage.com - unknown and others
     unknown daughter is the daughter of Alfonso I, King of Asturias and unknown daughter.
     Alfonso II, King of Asturias was the son of Fruela I, King of Asturias.
     Alfonso III, King of Asturias was the son of Ordoño I, King of Asturias.
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 Chapter 28. Notable Families Having Multiple Connections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Alfonso I "the Catholic" [King of the Asturias], b.
Munia _____, and had issue, (1) Alfonso II [king of the Asturias] (2) _____ (dau), m.
Alfonso IV [King of Asturias, Galicia and Leon], m.
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 Spain under the Moors   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The first years of their rule, the Moors, as the Berber conquerors came to be known, held the peninsula (except for Asturias and the Basque country) as a dependency of the Province of North Africa, a division of the caliphate of Damascus.
After 717 the country was ruled by emirs, appointed by the caliphs, who were frequently neglectful of their duties; misrule resulted in the appointment and deposition of 20 successive emirs over the next 40 years.
Pelayo's son-in-law, Alfonso, conquered nearly all the region known as Galicia, recaptured most of León, and was then crowned Alfonso I, king of León and Asturias.
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 Reino de Asturias - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Alfonso nació probablemente en Tritium Megallum (Tricio, La Rioja), donde tenía su sede su progenitor, Pedro, duque de Cantabria: La crónica Albeldese narra que Alfonso se desplazó desde tierras riojanas a Asturias para contraer matrimonio con Ermesinda.
Alfonso II instaura el culto jacobeo, y es la primera figura en el Camino de Santiago, que vincula a Asturias con Europa (especialmente con el reino de Carlomagno), teniendo como enemigo común a un Sur de cultura oriental.
Alfonso II era de madre alavesa, con lo que ya se ve la vocación de atraer al reino asturiano a los vecinos váscones.
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 Alfonso I de Asturias - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Alfonso I de Asturias, también conocido como Alonso I de Asturias.
Tenía tierras patrimoniales en Cantabria heredadas de su padre el Duque Pedro de Cantabria y en Asturias, además de una gran influencia en la corte merced, tal vez, a su mujer.
Se dice que tanto Don Pelayo como su hijo Favila (o Fáfila) nunca se consideraron reyes, a diferencia de Alfonso I que se autoproclamó rey de Asturias.
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 Feudal Spanish (DBA 104)
Alfonso II (791-842 AD) continued the movement southward, seizing strongholds and establishing settlements south of the Deuro River.
In 1257, Alfonso X the Wise of Castile-Leon petitioned the Pope to be named Holy Roman Emperor, but was ignored and then subsequently diposed by his nobles, who passed the throne to his son Sancho IV.
A futile attempt by the Muslims to reverse the Christian tide with reenforcements from North Africa was decisively beaten in 1340 at the battle of the River Salado.
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 Artehistoria - Ficha Alfonso I El Católico. Alfonso I
El primer rey de Asturias será Alfonso I. Era hijo de don Pedro, duque de Cantabria, y se refugió en las montañas astures ante la presión musulmana.
Y es que Alfonso I puso en marcha un auténtico plan de expansión de su territorio, aprovechando la crisis política que vivía al-Andalus.
De esta manera Alfonso dotaba a su reino de importantes contingentes militares y demográficos con los que llevar a cabo la paulatina repoblación de estas tierras.
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 Chronica Prophetica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Also, this our prince, the glorious lord Alfonso, is foretold by the revelations and demonstrations of many Christians to be on the verge of ruling over all of Spain in the near future.
Alfonso [I], son-in-law of Pelayo, ruled 19 years, 1 month, and 2 days [739-57 CE].
Alfonso [III], son of Ordono, accepted the kingship on the second day of the Ides of February, era 964.
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 Alfonso II de Asturias - Wikimedia Commons
ast: Alfonso II (760-842) el Casto, rei d'Asturies ente los años 791 y 842.
en: Alfonso II (759-842), called the Chaste, was the king of Asturias from 791 to his death, Alfonso I's reputed grandson, the son of Fruela I and the Basque Munia.
Alfonso II, primer rei que peregrinó a Santiago de Compostela
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 thePeerage.com - Henrietta and others
She married Alfonso I, King of Asturias, son of unknown.
     Alfonso I, King of Asturias was the son of unknown.
     Fruela I, King of Asturias was the son of Alfonso I, King of Asturias and unknown daughter.
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 Asturias, Galicia and León
When the Visigothic kingdom collapsed as a result of the Moors invasion 711 was the province of Asturias on Spain's northern coast the only part that was not conquered.
The year 910 was Asturias divided into three parts between the brothers Fruela II (Asturias), Ordoño II (Galicia) and García I (León).
Urraca was married with Alfonso I of Aragon and Navarre.
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 Spain - History - TABLE OF IMPORTANT EVENTS
Alfonso XII (1875-1885) - reinstatement of House of Bourbon
Alfonso XIII (1886-1902) - Regency of Maria Cristina
Alfonso XIII (1902-1931) - dissolved Regency of Maria Cristina
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Asturias,
88,429), Oviedo prov., NW Spain, in Asturias, on the Bay of Biscay.
Feyjóo y Montenegro, Benito Gerónimo, 1676-1764, Spanish Benedictine scholar and critic, abbot at Oviedo, Asturias.
15,389), Oviedo prov., NW Spain, in Asturias, on the Bay of Biscay.
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 Their Majesties -- Monday, Jul. 12, 1926 -- Page 1 -- TIME
Refreshed by this escapade, Alfonso boarded a cross-channel packet, set sail for England accompanied by his consort and their eldest son and daughter, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, 19, and the Infanta Beatriz, 17.
Alfonso XIII welcomed cordially their (deposed 1923) Majesties King George II and Queen Elizabeth of Greece.
To news gatherers King Alfonso said: "I have been and am still an ardent partisan of the League of Nations.
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 Alfonso I of Asturias - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He is said to have married Ormesinda, daughter of Pelayo, who was raised on the shield in Asturias as king of the Visigoths after the Moorish conquest He is also said to have been the son of Peter of Cantabria, duke of Cantabria.
Regardless of these historical uncertainties, there is good evidence that Alfonso was the first king of Oviedo (which later became Asturias).
He started a policy of relocation to the Cantabrian mountains (and north thereof) in Northeren Spain as to be out of the easy reach of Moorish raiders.
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 ALFONSO II, Spanish king of Asturias. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Columbia Encyclopedia > Alfonso II, Spanish king of Asturias
(Alfonso the Chaste), 759–842, Spanish king of Asturias (791–842), grandson of Alfonso I. He established his capital at Oviedo, which his father, Fruela I, had founded.
Continuing the struggle against the Moors, he sought the support of the Frankish emperors Charlemagne and Louis I. Alfonso II built the first church on the site of Santiago de Compostela.
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 Jewels of Spain : Santiago de Compostela
The discovery of the relics provided a rallying point for Christian Spain, then confined to a narrow strip at the north of the Iberian Peninsula, most of which was occupied by Moors.
Over the tomb Alfonso II of Asturias built an earthen church that Alfonso III replaced by a stone one, and the town that grew up around it became the most important Christian place of pilgrimage after Jerusalem and Rome during the Middle Ages.
The great Cathedral, begun by order of Alfonso VI of Leon and Castile in 1078, consecrated in 1128 and completed in 1211, dominates the town -its main entrance is two stories above the plaza.
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 700000 people connected with European Royalty   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
King Alfonso VI Of Castile and Leon and Princess Constance Capet Of Burgandy
Spouse: Alfonso I 'The Battler Of Aragon' King Of Aragon (Abt 1073-Abt 1134)
King Alfonso XIII Of Spain and The Indies and Queen Victoria Eugenia Julia Ena Mountbatten Of Spain
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 MED 201: Chronology: Medieval Spain 410-1492   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
791 Alfonso II, King of Asturias in Oviedo.
850 Ordoño I, King of Asturias in Oviedo.
1140 “Poema del Mio Cid.” 1162-96 Alfonso II, King of Aragon.
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 Alfonso I of Asturias Details, Meaning Alfonso I of Asturias Article and Explanation Guide
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