Pelayo Martínez de Córdoba, Count of Extremadura

Pelayo Martínez de Córdoba
1st Count of Extremadura
Reign	849AD – 866AD
Predecessor	Position established
Successor	Hugo I
Full name پلايو ارمنذو مرطينز دِ قرطبة Pelayo Armando Martinz de Qartubah Pelayo Armando Martínez de Córdoba
Born	پلايو ارمنذو مرطينز دِ قرطبة 803 Córdoba, Emirate of Córdoba
Died	866 (aged 63–64) Extremadura, Emirate of Rabadsun
Noble family	House of Martínez
Issue Hugo I Martínez de Córdoba, Count of Extremadura
Father	Armando II of Córdoba
Mother	Alejandra Hernández
Religion	Sunni Islam (until 845) Creeperian Catholicism (from 845AD)

Pelayo Armando Martínez y de Córdoba, Count of Extremadura (803 – 866, born پلايو ارمنذو مرطينز دِ قرطبة, transliterated as Pelayo Armando Martinz de Qartubah) was Córdoban and Rabadsuni noble. He was the youngest son of Córdoban Emir Armando II and the founder of the House of Martínez–Pelayo, the junior branch of the House of Martínez which currently reigns in Creeperopolis.

Early life

Little is known about the early life of Pelayo Armando Martínez y de Córdoba. He was born in 803AD== in Córdoba, the capital of the Emirate of Córdoba in modern day Greater Sacramento. He was born to Armando II, the Emir of Córdoba, and Alejandra Hernández. He was younger brother of Ishmael Martínez de Córdoba.

Campaigns in Deltino and Rabadsun

The Battle of Extremadura.

In 843AD, the Emirate of Córdoba was abolished and his older brother became the Sultan of Andaluzia-Ziqara. In 845AD, Martínez de Córdoba converted to Creeperian Catholicism, and for doing so, he was banished by his older brother. Martínez de Córdoba left Ecros for Sur and arrived in the Emirate of Rabadsun, the Creeperian Catholic client state of the Caliphate of Deltino. He was welcomed by the Creeperian Catholic population but the Deltinian elites did not want him in their territory.

Caliph Salim II ordered Deltinian soldiers to capture Martínez de Córdoba and have him removed from Rabadsun, but Creeperans prevented the soldiers from doing so. Around 300 people died in the ensuing riot. Salim II ordered the army to occupy the emirate, but Emir Fydl rallied support from locals and even Deltinian soldiers in the emirate to fight against the Caliph's soldiers. At the Battle of Mexico in 846AD, the Deltinians were routed by Fydl I's soldiers. Fydl I offered Pelayo an army to fight with and Pelayo marched the army into Deltinian territory, looting villages and destroying military encampments. In 849AD, Pelayo decisively defeated soldiers under Uthman al-Naissa at the Battle of Extremadura, ending the war in a Rabadsuni victory. Salim II and Fydl I agreed to a peace under which Pelayo was given the title of Count of Extremadura.

Later life and death

A statue of Pelayo in Extremadura.

Little is known of Martínez de Córdoba's 17 year reign as Count of Extremadura from 849AD until 866AD. He died in 866AD and was succeeded by his son, Hugo Martínez de Córdoba, as Count of Extremadura. Pelayo was buried in an Extremadura church.

Legacy

Further information: House of Martínez–Pelayo

Pelayo is considered to be the "Father of the Creeperian Royal Family" as he the founder of the Pelayo Branch of the House of Martínez. Every Creeperian monarch since Alfawnasu I of Rabadsun in 1120AD can trace a direct male-line descendance from Pelayo.

In 1849, the 1000 year anniversary of the Battle of Extremadura, Emperor Adolfo III declared 1 June as the Day of Pelayo. In 1968, the Creeperian Initiative declared Pelayo the "Grandfather of the Fatherland," with Alfonso I, Pelayo's great great great great great great great great great great great grandson, being the "Father of the Fatherland."

Several statues of Pelayo have been built. The largest is located in Extremadura on the site believed to be the location of the church Pelayo was buried in, which was destroyed during the Creeperian Crusade. The exact location of his tomb is unknown. A symbolic tomb was built for him in the Valley of the Fallen in 1968. Pelayo is the only person who had been a Muslim at one point in their life who is buried in the Valley of the Fallen.

See also

• Ishmael Martínez de Córdoba