Ordoño I of Asturias

Ordoño I. († May 27 866 in Oviedo) was 850-866 King of Asturias. He was the son and successor of King Ramiro I. His mother can not have been the queen Paterna that Ramiro had married only 842; Ordoño either came from a previous marriage or from an illegitimate connection.

Soon after his accession, there was an uprising of the Basques, and when he was on a campaign for its prostration attacked a Muslim army. The Asturian chronicles According to the Ordoño glorify (they were written at the time of his son and successor ), he mastered this difficult situation militarily.

In the Emirate of Córdoba collapsed after the accession of the Amir Muhammad I. 852 in Toledo an uprising. The rebels asked for help Ordoño. He sent an army, which fell into an ambush together with the rebels and was defeated by Muhammad in the Battle of the Río Guadacelete. The Asturian chronicles conceal this defeat.

858/859 took Normans a raid on the coast of the Asturian kingdom, which was blocked according to an Asturian Chronicle ( Crónica Albeldense ).

In the decades before Ordoños throne the power of the Banu Qasi had been consolidated in the Ebro valley, a converted to Islam Family of Gothic origin, whose head to Ordoños time of Musa ibn Musa important military commanders ibn Furtun was. Musa rebelled repeatedly against the Emir of Córdoba and wanted to after successful campaigns as a "third king of Spain " (next to the Emir and Ordoño ) establish. Against him and defeated him Ordoño turned 859 at the Battle of Albelda, whereupon Musa's son Lope (Latin lupus), the then- Toledo was in his power to Ordoño subjugated and future fought on the side thereof opposite the Emir. The Asturians ventured daring expeditions against the Emirate, where they, among other cities Talamanca ( province of Madrid ) and Coria ( Cáceres ) income.

Ordoño was responsible for the protection and resettlement ( Repoblación ) of depopulated newly conquered territories Tui, Astorga, Amaya, and ( in the year 856) Leon.

A late source of dubious credibility, according to the name of Ordoños wife Mumadona should have been. Besides his successor Alfonso III. calls this source, the Chronicle Sampiros, three other sons Ordoños who allegedly rebelled against her brother later. The reliability of this information is controversial.

Source expenditure

• Yves Bonnaz ( eds): Chroniques asturiennes. Editions du CNRS, Paris, 1987, ISBN 2-222-03516-3 ( Latin text of the main sources with French translation and detailed commentary )
• Juan Gil Fernández ( eds.): Crónicas Asturianas. Oviedo, 1985, ISBN 84-600-4405- X ( Latin text and Spanish translation )