Battle of Covadonga (722 AD) and Our Lady of Covadonga

Pelagius (Pelayo dé Asturias) defeated Umayyad Invaders, and killed Munuza (Umayyad Governor) and Alqama According to texts written by Mozarabs in northern Hispania during the late ninth century, the Visigoths in 718 elected a nobleman named Pelagius (c.685–737) as their princeps, or leader . Pelagius, the first monarch of the Asturian Kingdom, son of Favila, who had been a dignitary at the court of the Visigoth King Egica (687–700), established his headquarters at Cangas de Onís, Asturias and incited an uprising against the Umayyad Saracens. From the beginning of the Saracen invasion of Hispania, refugees and combatants from the south of the peninsula had been moving north to avoid Sharia authority. Some had taken refuge in the remote mountains of Asturias in the northwestern part of the Iberian Peninsula. There, from among the dispossessed of the south, Pelagius recruited his band of fighters. Hispania under U...