Bermudo I of Asturias

This article includes a improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (March 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message )

Bermudo I (also Vermudo or Veremund), called the Deacon or the Monk (c. 750 – 797), was the

Bermudo was elected by the palatine officials (the nobility of the royal palace) to replace Mauregatus, who had died of natural causes in 788. Since Mauregatus had ascended the throne in a coup d'état with regional support in 783 and the succession of Bermudo proceeded without incident, it is probable that Mauregatus had procured a change in the ranks of the palatine nobility and that Bermudo was thus put forward as the candidate to, like Mauregatus, prevent the succession of Alfonso II, the son and heir of Fruela I. Though the Chronicle of Alfonso III in both its extant versions makes Bermudo out to be a deacon at his succession, this fact would only reinforce the notion that his election was a determined move to oppose Alfonso.

In any case, he did not reign long. He was forced to defend against an

Bermudo was succeeded by Alfonso II and he left behind a son, who later reigned as Ramiro I, by an anonymous wife. He reportedly lived for a long time after his abdication, perhaps as a monk, and on good terms with his successor.

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bermudo I of Asturias.

• Collins, Roger (1989). The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710–97. London: Blackwell,
  ISBN 0-631-15923-1
  .