{"slug": "alfonso-i-of-asturias", "label": "Alfonso I of Asturias", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_I_of_Asturias", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q333609", "qid": "Q333609", "description": "duke of Cantabria and king of Asturias", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [693, 783], "span_label": ["693 CE", "783 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-asturias", "label": "Kingdom of Asturias", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "berber-people", "label": "Berber people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "galicia-spain", "label": "Galicia (Spain)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alfonso-ii-of-asturias", "label": "Alfonso II of Asturias", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iberian-peninsula", "label": "Iberian Peninsula", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-galicia", "label": "Kingdom of Galicia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 693, "year_label": "693 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Alfonso I, king of Asturias (approximate date; d. 757)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806250#Births", "title": "693", "revid": 1340806250, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 739, "year_label": "739 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Favila of Asturias dies after a 2-year reign (probably killed by a bear). He is succeeded by his brother-in-law Alfonso I, husband of his sister Ermesinda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809724#Europe", "title": "739", "revid": 1340809724, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 740, "year_label": "740 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Berber tribes in the recently conquered region of Galicia (northwest Spain) rebel. This facilitates the establishment of an independent kingdom in the Cantabrian Mountains under King Alfonso I of Asturias.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352534655#Europe", "title": "740", "revid": 1352534655, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 750, "year_label": "750 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Alfonso I of Asturias establishes the Kingdom of Galicia, in roughly the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula. The exact time this happened is contested.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358128937#Europe", "title": "750", "revid": 1358128937, "section": "Events › Europe"}}, {"year": 757, "year_label": "757 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Alfonso I (\"the Catholic\") dies at Cangas (modern Spain), after an 18-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Fruela I as ruler of Asturias.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341678247#Europe", "title": "AD 757", "revid": 1341678247, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 783, "year_label": "783 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Mauregatus of Asturias, illegitimate son of the late king Alfonso I, usurps the throne after the death of his brother-in-law Silo. However, the nobility has elected Alfonso II at Adosinda's (wife of Silo) insistence, but Mauregatus assembles a large army of supporters, and forces Alfonso to flee to Álava (modern Spain). Adosinda is put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lives out the rest of her life.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351342197#Europe", "title": "783", "revid": 1351342197, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}