DON PELAYODON PELAYO

INDEX

•General data about the character ( birth date, place of birth, origin, family, etc.)

•Historical context: social, political and economic siuation of his/her country/area when he/she was born

•Social scale: position the character occupied, obligations & responsabilities (what, when etc.)

•Influences: issues the character took part in (social, political and/or economic transformations made)

•Legacy: Something done/created by the character by which will always be remembered (what, why)

•What happened after the character died with all those aspects he had influence over.

GENERAL DATA

Birth rate : unknown

Died: 737 in Cangas de Onis

Place of birth: Asturias

Origin: it isnt clear

Reing: he reing in Asturias untill he died

FAMILY

Real house: Astur-Leonesa dinasty.

Father: Duke Favila

Mother: unknown

Wife: Gaudiosa

Offspring: Favila l, king of Asturias and Ermesinda.

WHERE DID HE LIVE?

- Before he went to Asturias he was poor but when he became de monarch he lived in a very big castle.

POLITICAL SITUATION

ECONOMIC SITUATION

-In 722 the kingdom of Asturias was poor.

-They haven’t got a good army, so they got more difficult to conquest territories.

-The people haven't got enough money so they didn’t life in good ways.

SOCIAL SCALE

POSITION OF THE CARACTER:

- He was the first Asturian monarch

- He directed an army

- He went to Asturias because one person wanted to kill he and his father and when he went ther the people elect him

OBLIGATIONS AND RESPONSABILITIES:

- He had to protect the kingdom of Asturias

- Defeated the muslims.

- Selected people to controll the army

- He had to conquered territories

- He had to help the people with the land and protect them

How the won the battle of Covadonga

- The people have to take part from their free time and their time to be with the family and they be day and night doing harmaments ffor the battle

- The have to go to other parts of the area that were very far away to take matirial to make the harmaments.

… And with all that effort they won the battle

legacy

Battle of Covadonga:

It was the 28 of May in 277

It was in Cangas de Onis ( Asturias)

It was the first significant victory by a christian military

It assured the independence of the kingdom of Asturias

In this battle the Asturians won

CONQUESTS

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER THE HE DIED

- Don Pelayo died because he had a disease.

-He died in Cangas de Onis

- In 737 he was buried in the church of Santa Eulalia of Abamia

-Before that Gaudiosa died

- In the reing of Alfonso X , they were translated to the holy cave.

- He didn’t have children so the position that he had go to other person .