Editing Mauregatus

{{Short description|King of Asturias from 783 to 789}}
{{Infobox royalty
| image        = Mauregato no Compendio de crónicas de reyes.jpg
| image_size   = 181px
| succession   = [[King of Asturias]]
| reign        = 783–789
| coronation   = 783
| predecessor  = [[Silo of Asturias|Silo]]
| successor    = [[Bermudo I]]
| spouse       = [[Creusa]]
| house        = [[Astur-Leonese dynasty]]
| house-type   = Dynasty
| father       = [[Alfonso I of Asturias]]
| mother       = Sisalda
| issue        = Hermenegildo
| birth_date   = 
| birth_place  = [[Asturias]]
| death_date   = 789
| death_place  = [[Pravia]], [[Asturias]]
| place of burial = [[Church of San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista, Santianes de Pravia]]
| religion     = [[Chalcedonian Christianity]]
}}
 
'''Mauregatus the Usurper''' ({{Langx|es|Mauregato}}) was the [[king of Asturias]] from 783 to 788 or 789. He was an illegitimate son of [[Alfonso I of Asturias|Alfonso I]], supposedly by a [[Moors|Moorish]] serf. He usurped the throne on the death of [[Silo of Asturias|Silo]], the husband of his half sister [[Adosinda]], earning himself the nickname of the Usurper.<ref>[[The British Museum]], ''Mauregatus of Asturias''</ref> The nobility had elected [[Alfonso II of Asturias|Alfonso II]] at Adosinda's insistence, but Mauregatus assembled a large army of supporters and forced Alfonso into exile in [[Álava]].

According to folklore, Mauregatus and Moorish rulers agreed to the apocryphal "[[Tribute of 100 virgins|Tribute of the 100 Maidens]],"  which gifted the Moors 100 Asturian virgins annually as repayment for their assistance in Mauregatus' rise to the throne. This arrangement supposedly ended after [[Ramiro I of Asturias|Ramiro I]]'s defeat of the Moors at the legendary [[Battle of Clavijo]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Francomano |first=Emily C. |date=Autumn 2007 |title=The Legend of the Tributo de las cien doncellas: Women as Warweavers and the Coin of Salvation |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27764172 |journal=Revista Canadiense de Estudios Hispánicos |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=9-25 |JSTOR=27764172}}</ref>

After six years in power, he died of natural causes in 789 and was buried in the Church of San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista in Pravia. Following his death, [[Bermudo I]] was chosen as his successor.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=de Caunedo |first=Nicolás Castor |date=28 May 1854 |title=Un cronicón del siglo IX |url=https://hemerotecadigital.bne.es/hd/es/viewer?id=2565cdb8-8bf9-4bfd-b219-26d126ae7ebe |journal=Semanario Pintoresco Español |volume=22 |pages=171 |via=Hemeroteca Digital}}</ref>

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