 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" ("emperor in the ambit of Galicia").Widely travelled and well-connected, especially through the prestigious marriages of his many daughters—he had at least sixteen legitimate children by his two wives—Pedro was, besides a political and military figure, a religious one.Sometime before 1109 he founded the first religious house for women in Galicia.