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    Pelagius (or Pelayo) of Oviedo (died 28 January 1153) was a medieval ecclesiastic, historian, and forger who served the Diocese of Oviedo as an auxiliary...
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  • Christian child-martyr Pelagius (bishop of Lugo) (died 1000) Pelagius of Oviedo (died 1153), Spanish bishop of Oviedo Pelagius Galvani (c. 1165–1230)...
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  • form of the Latin name Pelagius. It may refer to: Pelagius of Asturias, founder of the Kingdom of Asturias and beginner of the Reconquista Pelagius of Córdoba...
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    Pelagius (Spanish: Pelayo; c. 685 – 737) was a Hispano-Visigoth nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias in 718. Pelagius is credited with initiating...
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    indicates that he was born in the second half of 1047 or in the first half of 1048. Pelagius of Oviedo wrote that Alfonso was 79 when he died, but that...
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    century by Archbishop Pelagius of Oviedo, the chronicler. Bishop Fernando Alfonso (1296–1301) undertook another restoration of the chapter-house, and...
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    his program of church building in Oviedo. In 908, Alfonso III commissioned a gold and jewelled cross to contain the cross carried by Pelagius I at Covadonga...
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    the sword of Almanzor and in death by the vengeful pen of a bishop." Pelagius of Oviedo (died 1153), half of whose Chronicon covers the reign of Bermudo...
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    passed to Ordoño. García's wife, Muniadona, was said by Pelagius of Oviedo to have been daughter of Nuño Fernández, but this is chronologically impossible...
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    later deposited in Oviedo Cathedral). Pelagius was left by his uncle at the age of ten as a hostage with the Caliph Abd-ar-Rahman III of al-Andalus, in trade...
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    reference to him in the documents. He was succeeded by Pelagius sometime between then and 1102. This Pelagius is called "bishop" in documents from as early as...
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    that made by Pelagius of Oviedo for his Chronicon regum Legionensium and that made for the Historia silense. They differ in the spelling of the count's...
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    regent of Sicily (d. 1205) Waleran de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Warwick (d. 1204) William II (the Good), king of Sicily (d. 1189) January 28 – Pelagius of Oviedo...
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    Pelayo is a convent for women of the Benedictine order, located in the city of Oviedo, Spain. It is also known as the monastery of the pelayas. The monastery...
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    construction of a second cathedral, according to the aspirations of the city and the Romanesque style. It was within the episcopal see of Pelagius of Oviedo, or...
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    Asturias (redirect from Oviedo (province))
    important cities are the communal capital, Oviedo, the seaport and largest city Gijón, and the industrial town of Avilés. Other municipalities in Asturias...
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    Jimena Muñoz (category Year of birth unknown)
    her father was named Munio, and a contemporary chronicler, Bishop Pelagius of Oviedo, called her nobilisima (very noble), while the Crónicas anónimas de...
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    Gomelo II (category Bishops of Oviedo)
    was interfered with at a later date by Pelagius of Oviedo. Dated 20 January 905, it is charter of the Cathedral of San Salvador signed by a bishop Gomellus...
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    Gudesteus signed the same document as bishops of Oviedo. This may be related to the enmity which Bishop Pelagius reported in his Chronicon regum Legionensium...
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    river Carrión probably out of a confusion between the two. The earliest source to explicitly date the battle is Pelagius of Oviedo, who writes that Vermudo...
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    Fernando Díaz (category Counts of Asturias)
    lawsuits with the bishop Pelagius of Oviedo concerning episcopal seignory in Asturias. These also involved Munio, the abbot of the San Juan Bautista de...
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  • Rodrigo Muñoz (Galician count) (category Year of birth unknown)
    Kingdom of León, best known for his death at the Battle of Sagrajas fighting for Alfonso VI of León. As related by chronicler Pelagius of Oviedo, Rodrigo...
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    Bishop Pelagius of Oviedo, after her father's death, her brother Alfonso gave her, 'for the sake of peace', in marriage to a pagan (Muslim) king of Toledo...
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  • German chronicler John of Worcester (fl. 1150s), English chronicler Otto of Freising (c. 1114–1158), German chronicler Pelagius of Oviedo (died 1153), Iberian...
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    elected a nobleman named Pelagius (c.685–737) as their princeps, or leader. Pelagius, the first monarch of the Asturian Kingdom, son of Favila, who had been...
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  • Tebular (Episode of Tebular) and it took place probably no earlier than the autumn of 921. The later chronicler Pelagius of Oviedo interpolated into...
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    following: Pelagius of Asturias (died 737), first king of Asturias. Queen Gaudiosa, Pelagius's wife. A sister of King Pelagius. Alfonso I of Asturias (693-757)...
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    of noble origin). This rebellion was suppressed, and Pelagius was arrested and imprisoned. Pelagius managed to escape from Córdoba in 717, reaching the...
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  • (floruit 899–922) was an auxiliary bishop or coadjutor of the Diocese of Oviedo during the episcopates of Gomelo II, Flacinus, and Oveco. He was long mistaken...
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  • bishops—Pelagius of Oviedo, Diego of León, and Muño of Salamanca—and the abbot of Samos were deposed by the council for having opposed the marriage of Alfonso...
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