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Personal data Peter van Cantabrië 

• He was born in the year 663.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Peter of Pedro (overl. 730) was hertog van Cantabrië. Wellicht was hij de zoon van de Visigotische koning Erwig. Hij was de vader van koning Alfons I van Asturië. Een andere zoon was Fruela van Cantabrië, vader van de koningen Aurelius en Bermudo I van Asturië.
  
  Volgens islamitische kronieken belegerde Musa ibn Nusair in 714 de hoofdstad van Cantabrië, Amaya, en dit al voor de tweede keer. Peter leidde als dux zijn volk de bergen in en sloot een verbond met Pelayo van Asturië tegen de invallers, die in de Slag bij Covadonga verslagen werden.
  
  De gebieden van de beide heersers werden verenigd door het huwelijk van Peters zoon Alfons met Pelayo's dochter Ermesinda.
  
  Alfons kreeg later de Asturische troon en was de eerste die zich koning noemde. De Pérez-dynastie is naar hem genoemd.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Peter (Latin: Petrus, Spanish: Pedro; died 730) was the Duke of Cantabria. While various writers have attempted to name his parentage, (for example, making him son or brother of King Erwig), early sources say nothing more specific than the chronicle of 'Pseudo-Alfonso': that he was "ex semine Leuvigildi et Reccaredi progenitus" (descended from the bloodline of Liuvigild and Reccared I). He was the father of King Alfonso I and of Fruela, father of Kings Aurelius and Bermudo I.
  
  According to the Muslim chroniclers, in the year 714, Musa ibn Nusair sacked Amaya, capital of Cantabria, for the second time. Peter, the provincial dux, led his people into refuge in the mountains and then joined with Pelayo of Asturias against the invaders. After the Battle of Covadonga, in which Pelayo defeated an invading force, it seems likely that Peter sent his son to the court of Pelayo at Cangas de Onís. It had been a Visigothic practice to send noble children to the royal court, this was thus a tacit admission of Pelayo's regality. According to the Crónica Albeldense, the territories of the two leaders were united by marriage between Peter's son Alfonso and Pelayo's daughter Ermesinda:
  
  Adefonsus, Pelagi gener, reg. an. XVIIII. Iste Petri Cantabriae ducis filius fuit; et dum Asturias venir Ermesindam Pelagii filiam Pelagio proecipiente, accepit.
  
  Alfonso later succeeded to the Asturian throne and was the first to use the title of king. While Iberian Muslim scholars would call his descendants the Beni Alfons (Arabic: ?? ?????? (Beni I?funš)) after his son, some modern authors refer to the family as the Pérez Dynasty for Peter.

• He died in the year 730, he was 67 years old.
• A child of Vitulo van Cantabrië
• This information was last updated on January 23, 2013.

Household of Peter van Cantabrië

Child(ren):

1. Alfonso I van Asturië  693-757 

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