King Alfonso I of Asturias 739–757
739 AD inherited
Ermesinda passed her claim on the throne to her husband Alfonso.
Whether Pelagius or Favila were ever considered kings in their own lifetime is debatable, but Alfonso certainly was. He began a lifelong war against the Moors.
In 740, he conquered Galicia and in 754, León. He went as far as La Rioja. However, the few urban populations of these frontier regions fled to his northern dominions, leaving a depopulated buffer between the Christian and Muslim states.
This created the so-called Desert of the Duero, an empty region between the River Duero and the Asturian Mountains. Alfonso intended it this way; he wished to create an area in which any invading army would find survival difficult. Besides the martial aspects, the demographic and cultural effects of this policy on later Asturian, Spanish and Portuguese history is large. It was over a hundred years before the region was repopulated (an event known as the Repoblación).
Subjects Who or What inherited?
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Ermesinda (Ormisenda, Ermisenda, Ermesinde, Ermessenda) queen consort of t...
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Alfonso I of Asturias (the Catholic) King of Asturias 7...
Objects To Whom or What was inherited?
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Asturias (Kingdom of) A kingdom in the Iberian...
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