Ordoño I of Asturias

Ordoño I (c. 821–866), son of Ramiro I, was born in Oviedo and governed Galicia for his father before succeeding him in 850 as the first Asturian king to take the crown without election.

He put down a Basque rebellion backed by the Banu Qasi of Zaragoza. Against the warlord Musa ibn Musa he divided his forces, besieging Albelda while attacking Musa at Monte Laturce; Musa's army was routed and he himself barely escaped.

Ordoño repopulated León, Astorga and other ruined towns. He died of gout at Oviedo on 27 May 866, leaving the throne to his son Alfonso III.