Nepotian of Asturias
Nepotian (
count of the palace under his predecessor, Alfonso II
, to whom he was related. Both the nature of this relationship and the legitimacy of his rule are disputed by scholars.
Later sources make him Alfonso's brother-in-law, but this is chronologically implausible, nor is there evidence for such a sister. The earliest chronicle simply calls him Alfonso's kinsman. Likewise he is sometimes identified with a man of this name who appears in a charter of King Silo, but were he the same he would have been in his nineties at the time he machinated for the throne.[1]
He did not hold the crown long. The same year another kinsman of Alfonso,
Narcea
, and thus became king as Ramiro I.
Notes
Sources
- Besga Marroquín, Armando (2003). "El rey Nepociano de Asturias, monarca legítimo y vasco". Letras de Deusto. 33 (101): 9–41.
- Casariego, Jesús E. (1969). "Una revolución asturiana en el siglo IX: el interregno del conde Nepociano". Boletín del Instituto de Estudios Asturianos. 23 (68): 313–39.
- ISBN 978-1-118-73001-0.
- Martínez Díez, Gonzalo (2005). El Condado de Castilla (711–1038): la historia frente a la leyenda. Vol. 1. Valladolid: Marcial Pons Historia.
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