See also
| Husband: | Ramiro I + (790- ) | |
| Wife: | Paterna Sna + of CASTILE AND LEON (795- ) | |
| Children: | Ordono I + (821-866) | |
| Name: | Ramiro I + | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Bermudo I + (750-797) | |
| Mother: | Ursinda + MUNILONA (755- ) | |
| Birth | 0790 | |
| Occupation | King of Asturias | |
| Title | frm 0842 to 0850 (age 51-60) | King of Asturias |
| Death | "2/850" | Lino |
| Name: | Paterna Sna + of CASTILE AND LEON | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | - | |
| Mother: | - | |
| Birth | 0795 | |
| Name: | Ordono I + | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Spouse: | Muniadona + of GASCONY AND LEON (c. 815- ) | |
| Birth | 0821 | Oviedo, Spain |
| Occupation | King of Asturias | |
| Title | frm 0850 to 0866 (age 28-45) | King of Asturias |
| Death | 27 May 0866 (age 44-45) | Oviedo, Spain |
Ramiro I (c. 790 – 850) was King of Asturias from 842 until his death. Son of Bermudo I, he succeeded Alfonso II.
First, he had to deal with the usurper Nepocian, defeating him at the Battle of the Bridge of Cornellana, by the river Narcea. Ramiro then removed the system of election which allowed his family to be displaced by a faction of nobles. Shortly after his succession, he went to Castile, where he took a wife, presumably the Paterna who was his widow (not Paterna Urraca, the latter being the name of the queen of a later Ramiro). Given the age of his son Ordoño I, this must have been a second marriage.
During his turbulent reign, the chronicles relate that he had to fend off attacks from both the Vikings and the Moors. He drove out a Viking expedition in 844. The latter, the old chronicles assert, he defeated in the legendary Battle of Clavijo. At this battle, Saint James the Greater, the Moor-Slayer, is claimed to have appeared on a white horse, giving rise to his cult in Iberia.
In 846, the Christian population of León fled before a Moorish attack, and it was not reoccupied until 856, under Ordoño I.
The art and architecture of his reign forms the Ramirense phase of Asturian art. His court was the center of great splendor, of which the palace and church of Santa María del Naranco and San Miguel de Lillo are testimony.
Ramiro died at Liño and was succeeded by his son, the aforementioned Ordoño