Pedro Fróilaz de Traba was the most powerful secular magnate in the Kingdom of Galicia during the first quarter of the twelfth century. According to the Historia compostelana, he was "spirited ... warlike ... of great power ...
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Pedro's tomb effigy in the Capela das Reliquias of the cathedral of Compostela
The territory ruled by Pedro Fróilaz directly was the Trastámara, that is, the land beyond the river Tambre, just north of Santiago (hatched).
The monastery of Sobrado was granted to Pedro's eldest two sons in 1118, although already in 1109 Pedro's territory had been defined by it.
Coat-of-arms of Oleiros, showing a castle on the sea. The castle at Oleiros was probably originally built as protection against Vikings and it was granted to Pedro Fróilaz in 1112.
Castle of Sobroso, where Pedro surprised and besieged Queen Urraca.
Pico Sacro ("sacred peak"), where Urraca camped her army to threaten Santiago
Apse of the monastery of Jubia, a major beneficiary of Pedro's religious patronage and which he eventually gave to Cluny.
Pedro's relationship to the monastery of Caabeiro is perhaps somewhat falsified in the surviving documents, but a document from here is one of the last records of Pedro (1125) and the only one that names his countship as Trastámara, that is, the lands beyond (tras) the Tambre (Támara).In their orbit 3
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Pedro Fróilaz de Traba was the most powerful secular magnate in the Kingdom of Galicia during the first quarter of the twelfth century. According to the Historia compostelana, he was "spirited ... warlike ... of great power ... a man who feared God and hated iniquity," for Diego Gelmírez himself had "fed him, like a spiritual son, with the nutriment of holy teaching." Brought up at the court of the Emperor Alfonso VI, Pedro raised the future Emperor Alfonso VII in his household. Around the latter he and Diego formed a "Galician party" that dominated that region during the turbulent reign of Urraca (1109-26). In September 1111 they even had the child Alfonso crowned king at Santiago de Compostela, but it was Pedro who was imperator in orbe Galletiae.
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