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TIL early European settlers with the surname Flórez (or Florez) held a higher social status in colonial America by claiming descent from the ancient Asturian-Leonese warrior line of King Fruela I, whose maternal grandfather, Pelagius, founded the Kingdom of Asturias and started the Reconquista.

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TIL early European settlers with the surname Flórez (or Florez) held a higher social status in colonial America by claiming descent from the ancient Asturian-Leonese warrior line of King Fruela I, whose maternal grandfather, Pelagius, founded the Kingdom of Asturias and started the Reconquista.

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