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<p style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><strong>Pedro de Cantabria</strong>&nbsp;(?-730) fue&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Dux (visigodo)" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dux_(visigodo)">duque (<em>dux</em>)</a>&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Ducado de Cantabria" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducado_de_Cantabria">de Cantabria</a>; lo era en 702 (a&ntilde;o de la muerte de&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Egica" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egica">Egica</a>) y en 710 (a&ntilde;o de la muerte de&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Vitiza" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitiza">Vitiza</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMart&iacute;nez_D&iacute;ez200425_1-0" class="reference separada" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; margin-right: 0.6ch;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: nowrap;" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Cantabria#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMart%C3%ADnez_D%C3%ADez200425-1">1</a></sup>​ Probablemente naci&oacute; hacia 680 y muri&oacute; en el a&ntilde;o 730.</p>px; padding-bottom: 0.5em; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Es el antepasado com&uacute;n de todos los reyes de Asturias. Su hijo&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Alfonso I de Asturias" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_I_de_Asturias">Alfonso&nbsp;I el Cat&oacute;lico</a>&nbsp;se cas&oacute; con la hija de&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Don Pelayo" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Pelayo">Pelayo</a>, fundador del&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Reino de Asturias" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reino_de_Asturias">reino de Asturias</a>, pero tras la muerte de su hijo&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Favila de Asturias" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favila_de_Asturias">Favila</a>&nbsp;que rein&oacute; durante dos a&ntilde;os, la corona del Reino de Asturias volvi&oacute; definitivamente al linaje de Pedro de Cantabria que es el antepasado m&aacute;s antiguo conocido de los reyes de Espa&ntilde;a.</p> font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Entre 711 y 712,&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="T&aacute;riq ibn Ziyad" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1riq_ibn_Ziyad">T&aacute;riq ibn Ziyad</a>&nbsp;conquist&oacute; con su ej&eacute;rcito&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Amaya (ciudad)" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaya_(ciudad)">Amaya</a>, la capital del&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Ducado de Cantabria" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducado_de_Cantabria">ducado de Cantabria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMart&iacute;nez_D&iacute;ez200468_9-0" class="reference separada" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; margin-right: 0.6ch;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: nowrap;" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Cantabria#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMart%C3%ADnez_D%C3%ADez200468-9">8</a></sup>​ Seg&uacute;n antiguas cr&oacute;nicas musulmanas, en el a&ntilde;o 714&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Musa ibn Nusair" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa_ibn_Nusair">Musa ibn Nusair</a>&nbsp;toma y saquea por segunda vez&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Pe&ntilde;a Amaya" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C3%B1a_Amaya">Amaya</a>, lo que obliga a Pedro y a los suyos a refugiarse tras la cordillera. All&iacute; combina sus fuerzas con el l&iacute;der astur&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Don Pelayo" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Pelayo">Pelayo</a>&nbsp;para combatir a los invasores musulmanes, a los que derrotan en la&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Batalla de Covadonga" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batalla_de_Covadonga">batalla de Covadonga</a>. Es probable que, siguiendo la costumbre&nbsp;<a class="mw-redirect" style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Visigodo" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigodo">goda</a>, Pedro enviase a su hijo a la corte real de&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Don Pelayo" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Pelayo">Pelayo</a>&nbsp;en&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Cangas de On&iacute;s" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangas_de_On%C3%ADs">Cangas de On&iacute;s</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMart&iacute;nez_D&iacute;ez200468_9-1" class="reference separada" style="line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; margin-right: 0.6ch;"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word; white-space: nowrap;" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Cantabria#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMart%C3%ADnez_D%C3%ADez200468-9">8</a></sup>​ Seg&uacute;n el fragmento transcrito a continuaci&oacute;n de la&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Cr&oacute;nica albeldense" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cr%C3%B3nica_albeldense">Cr&oacute;nica albeldense</a>, el duque Pedro de Cantabria despu&eacute;s de liberar a Gij&oacute;n ocupado por&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Munuza" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munuza">Munuza</a>&nbsp;y un se&ntilde;or llamado Pelayo, acordaron unir sus fuerzas mediante el matrimonio de Alfonso, hijo de Pedro, con&nbsp;<a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none; overflow-wrap: break-word;" title="Ermesinda" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermesinda">Ermesinda</a>, hija de Pelayo:</p>normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Adefonsus, Pelagi gener, reg. an. XVIIII. Iste Petri Cantabriae ducis filius fuit; et dum Asturias venir Ermesindam Pelagii filiam Pelagio proecipiente, accepit <span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Enrique Fl&oacute;rez de Seti&eacute;n.&nbsp;</span><em style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">Espa&ntilde;a sagrada</em><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">, t. XIII, ap. VI</span></span></p>rmal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">Tras la muerte el 14 de septiembre del a&ntilde;o 739, durante una cacer&iacute;a, de&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none #ffffff; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;" title="Favila de Asturias" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Favila_de_Asturias">Favila</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">, quien hab&iacute;a sucedido a su padre&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none #ffffff; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;" title="Don Pelayo" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Pelayo">Pelayo</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&nbsp;como rey de los astures,&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none #ffffff; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;" title="Alfonso I de Asturias" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_I_de_Asturias">Alfonso</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">&nbsp;es designado primer rey de los unificados dominios que en lo sucesivo se conocer&iacute;an con el nombre de&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none #ffffff; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;" title="Reino de Asturias" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reino_de_Asturias">Asturias</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">. La posteridad lo conoce con el nombre de&nbsp;</span><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #3366cc; background: none #ffffff; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal;" title="Alfonso I de Asturias" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_I_de_Asturias">Alfonso&nbsp;I el Cat&oacute;lico</a><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;">.</span></span></span></p>es: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.6px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: right; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #f9f9f9; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><span style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;"><a title="Wikipedia" href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Cantabria">https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_de_Cantabria</a></span></span></span></p>ckground-color: #f9f9f9; 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text-decoration-color: initial;">Enrique Fl&oacute;rez de Seti&eacute;n.&nbsp;<em>Espa&ntilde;a sagrada</em>, t. XIII, ap. VI</div>

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