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Late in 1113, when the royal court was in
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and installed a garrison there under his wife Urraca and the young
Alfonso. Arias promptly besieged it, and Pedro came to defend it. The besieged called on Diego to negotiate terms of surrender, which he did, but the brotherhood had grown suspicious of him and when a deal was struck Arias had Diego,
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and Diego Gelmírez, who had known each other since childhood. Diego Gelmírez had accepted the leadership of the brotherhood late in 1109 or early in 1110. In 1110 a truce between Pedro and the brotherhood was broken when the former took over the south
Galician fortress of
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the following year, despite not yet being the head of a metropolitan see. During his tenure, he was given secular rule of the city by
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authorised a new episcopal election and Diego was elected in 1100. He was anointed the second bishop of
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