Pelagius was a Visigoth nobleman, the son of Fafila.

He married his daughter Ermesinda to the future king Alfonso I, son of Pelagius ' eastern neighbour, Duke Peter of Cantabria.

Pelagius reigned for eighteen or nineteen years until his death in 737, when he was succeeded by his son Fafila.

He succeeded Pelagius ' son, his brother-in-law, Favila, on the throne after the latter's premature death.

He was the only son and successor of Pelagius, the first Asturian monarch.

In October 1218 reinforcements arrived including the Legate Pelagius with the English earls Ranulf of Chester, Saer of Winchester, and William Aubigny of Arundel together with Odonel Aubigny, Robert Fitzwalter, John Lacy of Chester, William Harcourt and Oliver the illegitimate son of King John.

* Favila becomes King of Asturias after the death of Pelagius.

Whether Pelagius or Favila were ever considered kings in their own lifetime is debatable, but Alfonso certainly was.

In the in-game lore of the videogame series The Elder Scrolls, there existed an eccentric emperor named Emperor Pelagius Septim III who seems to be heavily based upon Caligula.

In Spain, the Visigoth ic nobleman Pelagius of Asturias | Pelagius who founded the Kingdom of Asturias and began the Reconquista at the Battle of Covadonga, is a Folk hero | national hero regarded as the country's first monarch.

In a minor battle known as the Battle of Covadonga, a Muslim force sent to put down the Christians rebels in the northern mountains was defeated by Pelagius of Asturias, who established the monarchy of the Christian Kingdom of Asturias.

Prior to being made Pope, Sixtus was a patron of Pelagius, who was later condemned as a heretic.

The kingdom was established by a nobleman, Pelagius ( Pelayo ), who had returned to his country after the Battle of Guadalete in 711 where he was elected leader of the Asturians and founded the Kingdom of Asturias.

Christian political forces then accused Abd-ar-Rahman III of pederasty with a Christian boy who was later canonized Saint Pelagius of Cordova for his refusal of Abd-ar-Rahman's advances.

The relics were said to have been later rediscovered in the 9th century by a hermit named Pelagius, who after observing strange lights in a local forest went for help after the local bishop, Theodemar of Iria, in the west of Galicia.

* 590: Gregory the Great succeeds Pope Pelagius II ( who dies of plague ) as the 64th pope.

( Ends with Pope Pelagius, who reigned from 579 until 590.

Pelagius (; c. 685 – 737 ) was a Visigothic nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias, ruling it from 718 until his death.

According to the late tradition, Munuza, the Berber governor of Iegione ( either Gijón or León ), became attracted to Pelagius ' sister and sent word to Tariq ibn Ziyad, who ordered him to capture Pelagius and send him to Córdoba.

He may be identical with the subdeacon John who made a collection of extracts from the Greek Fathers and completed the translation of the Vitae patrum into Latin which Pope Pelagius I had begun.

Pelagius appealed for help from Emperor Maurice against the Lombards, but the Byzantines were of little help, forcing Pelagius to " buy " a truce and turn to the Franks, who invaded Italy, but left after being bribed by the Lombards.

He is said to have married Ermesinda, daughter of Pelagius, who founded Asturias after the Battle of Covadonga in which he reversed the Moorish conquest of the region.

In reality, it would seem that Orosius ’ s main task was to assist Jerome and others against Pelagius, who, after the synod of Carthage in 411, had been living in Palestine, and finding some acceptance there.

Pelagius, an ascetic who is said to have come from Britain, was concerned about the retention of man's moral accountability in the face of God's omnipotence.

Most of his later life was spent defending his doctrine against Catholic theologians who held that Catholicism came from the apostles and that Pelagius was spreading novelties in the Faith unknown to the apostolic tradition.

He also showed letters of recommendation by other authoritative figures including Augustine himself who, for all their disagreements, thought highly of Pelagius ' character.

Britain was the home of Pelagius, who opposed Augustine of Hippo's doctrine of original sin.

The doctrine takes its name from Pelagius, a British monk who was accused of developing the doctrine ( he himself appears to have claimed that man does not do good apart from grace in his letters, claiming only that all men have free will by God's gift ); it was opposed especially by Augustine of Hippo and was declared a heresy by Pope Zosimus in 418.

The commentary on Romans attributed to Pelagius ( who was declared a heretic, though for his view of grace, not his view of atonement ) gives a description of the atonement which states that a person's sins have " sold them to death ," and not to the devil, and that these sins alienate them from God, until Jesus, dying, ransomed people from death.

That Munuza's seat was at Gijón or León is sufficient to demonstrate that the Arabs had established their rule in the Asturias and that Pelagius was not therefore the leader of a local resistance to Arab conquest.

Pelagius may have had as few as three hundred men with him.

During is second stay in Hippo he had a long conversation with Saint Augustine during which he handed over the letters he was carrying from Jerome and informed Saint Augustine about the meetings he had had with Pelagius.

Pelagius denied that original sin had extinguished God's grace in Adam's heirs, and that consequently mankind had the power to do good, to convert themselves from sin by their own power, and the ability to work out their own salvation.

Stephen Baxter, in his book " Emperor ," imagines how time's tapestry would have looked had Pelagius ' views and not Augustine's influenced the evolution of Christianity.

He also portrays the Emperor Constantine's actions as having had dealt a harsh blow, but not necessarily a mortal one, to Pelagius ' teaching that humans are free and sin is not inherent in us.

Jerome claimed to have translated the whole into Greek ( Against Pelagius 3: 2 ) but this is doubted by many scholars since Jerome also made this claim about the Old Testament before he had actually done so.

: Amaury de Bene is often identified as being the originator of this concept, but it had been present as a doctrine in the Church since its inception in the works of Christians influenced by Platonism such as Pseudo-Dionysius, Pelagius and John Scotus Eriugena, especially in its Eastern ( Byzantine ) incarnation.

Only in the past century have works attributable to Pelagius been identified as such.

It is worth noting, also, that in the extant letters of Pelagius and his followers, they claim to believe that all good works are done only with the grace of God ( which he saw as enabling, but not forcing, good works ), that infants must be baptized for salvation, and that the saints were not always sinless, but that some at least have been able to stop sinning.

Augustine did accuse Pelagius specifically of thinking of God's grace as consisting only of external helps: " God ’ s grace lies in the fact that we have been so created as to be able to do this by the will, and in the further fact that God has given to us the assistance of His law and commandments, and also in that He forgives their past sins when men turn to Him ... in these things alone.

Pope Pelagius II ( 578-590 ): " Consider the fact that whoever has not been in the peace and unity of the Church cannot have the Lord … Although given over to flames and fires, they burn, or, thrown to wild beasts, they lay down their lives, there will not be ( for them ) that crown of faith but the punishment of faithlessness … Such a one can be slain, he cannot be crowned … slain outside the Church, he cannot attain the rewards of the Church " ( Denzinger, 469 ).

He seems to have been ordained a priest about 415, presumably after recanting the teachings of Pelagius ( although at this time Pelagius was only condemned locally around Carthage, and not yet by the Pope, so it is possible that he would not have been required to recant ).

Although place names still remain ( such as Alfaião, Babe, Baçal, Bagueixe, Mogadouro, among others ) the influence of the Islamic civilization to the northern regions and Douro ( as well as mountainous enclaves ) has been little, except for a passing reference to a Pelagius Count of Bragança during the Council of Oviedo ( in 970 ).

" The last works were considered by Marius Mercator, a friend of Augustine, as an attack on Pelagius, but may have actually been directed at Jerome.

Struck by Rome leaving its subjects to the mercy of the Saxons, Arthur is further disillusioned when he learns that Bishop Pelagius, whose teachings about the equality of all men inspired the brotherhood of his Round Table, has been executed as a heretic by order of Bishop Germanus himself.

Ever since Augustine and Pelagius there has been debate over the issue of salvation ; more specifically how can God elect believers and believers still come to God freely?

Pope Pelagius has been the papal name of two popes of the Roman Catholic Church.