Favila of Asturias

Favila or Fafila (died 739) was the second king of Asturias, succeeding his father Pelagius in 737. The only known act of his short reign was the founding of the Church of Santa Cruz in his capital of Cangas de Onís, where he was later buried.

In 739 he was mauled to death by a bear during a royal hunt, for which later Asturian chroniclers blamed his frivolity. He was buried beside his wife Froiluba and succeeded by his brother-in-law Alfonso I.