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Nevertheless, there is academic controversy about the mode of succession: election after the
Visigothic style, matrilineal succession according to indigenous practice, and hereditary in royal lineages. Each of these theories leads to a somewhat different account of Silo's accession to the throne.
244:, "for his mother's sake". The meaning of this phrase has been debated by scholars. It could mean that his mother was a Muslim with some sort of connection to the Umayyad Emir Abd al-Rahman I, or that she was a hostage of Abd al-Rahman in
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de ochocientos et dizisiete annos, murio esse rey Silo, e fue enterrado en la eglesia de sant Johan apostol et evangeliste, la que el fiziera en su vida."
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One could explain the inactivity of the
Muslims with respect to the Kingdom of Asturias by the fact that Silo's reign coincided with the intervention of
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Stone commemorating Silo's foundation of the church of
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480:(2000). All of these are cited in José Antonio Escudero (ed.), Javier Alvarado Planas, José Mª de Francisco Olmos. (2008)
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376:Spanish era
339:Nalón River
311:"pro anima"
261:Charlemagne
205:Charlemagne
42:Predecessor
783:783 deaths
777:Categories
721:Alfonso II
711:Mauregatus
627:Mauregatus
399:chancellor
397:, roughly
56:Mauregatus
753:Fruela II
716:Bermudo I
691:Alfonso I
588:cite book
403:Mauregato
389:, son of
203:, and of
174:Alfonso I
86:uncertain
52:Successor
736:Ordoño I
731:Ramiro I
726:Nepotian
701:Aurelius
696:Fruela I
681:Pelagius
670:Asturias
666:Monarchs
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610:Aurelius
391:Fruela I
315:Tabulata
284:Fruela I
265:Zaragoza
170:Adosinda
166:Aurelius
114:Religion
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76:Asturias
387:Alfonso
351:Galicia
347:Astorga
280:Galicia
246:Córdoba
201:Córdoba
194:Umayyad
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46:Aurelio
37:774–783
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345:, now
335:Pravia
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232:Reign
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594:link
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273:Ebro
211:Life
197:Emir
158:Silo
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