Ramiro I, king of Asturias

Events

Date of Birth: about 790.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 51).

Date of Death: 1 February 850.

Place of Death: Liño.

The date is given by Ruiz de la Peña Solar. The date and place are given Salazar y Acha (p. 51).

Relationships

(possible) Father: Vermudo I “el Diácono”, king of Asturias.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (2005, p. 109) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 51). Todd Farmerie, in a 26 August 2016 post to soc.genealogy.medieval, gives reasons for some doubt.

Mother: uncertain.

Spouse: unknown.

Salazar y Acha (p. 51) argues that she was probably the sister of Muza ibn Muza of the Banu Qasi, based on the name Ordoño being given to a son.

Spouse: Paterna.

This relationship is given by Martínez Diez (2005, p. 109) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 51).

Children (by his first spouse):

(possibly) Vermudo.

Ordoño I (about 830 - 27 May 866), king of Asturias, married Munia.

Gatón (about 825 - after 6 June 878), count in El Bierzo, married Egilo.

References

Martínez Diez, Gonzalo. El Condado de Castilla (711-1038): la historia frente a la leyenda. (Macial Pons: 2005).

Ruiz de la Peña Solar, Juan Ignacio. “Ramiro I de Asturias" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).