Adosinda Held at Monastery

Date: November 26, 783 • Location: San Emiliano, Spain

The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her nephew from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.

The Kingdom of Asturias was a medieval monarchy in the Iberian Peninsula founded by the nobleman Pelagius. It was the first Christian political entity to be established in the Iberian Peninsula after the Umayyad conquest of Visigothic Hispania in 711–720s. In the summer of 722, Pelagius defeated an Umayyad army at the Battle of Covadonga, in what is retroactively regarded as the beginning of the Christian Reconquista.