Fruminius

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Fruminius (around 918) was Bishop of León in Galicia .

Around 918/919 he anointed and crowned Ordoño II. ( Ordonius II. ) King of Galicia , according to old Spanish writers, he is said to have called himself the first king of León . It is also reported that “Bishop Fruminius, who probably killed his brother through an unfortunate entanglement and thus through no fault of his own, was sent into exile”.

literature

  • William Guthrie, John Gray, Johann Daniel Ritter, Christian Gottlob Heyne, Johann M. Schröckh, Johann Andreas Dieze, Daniel Ernst Wagner , Ludwig Albrecht Gebhardi, Christoph Gottlob Heinrich, Carl Renatus Hausen : Allgemeine Weltgeschichte. Volume 16, Traßler, Brno 1786, online .
  • Alexander Pierre Bronisch: Reconquista and holy war: the interpretation of the war in Christian Spain from the Visigoths to the early 12th century. Aschendorff, Münster 1998, online .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ William Guthrie et al .: General world history. P. 182.
  2. ↑ Alexander Pierre Bronisch: Reconquista and holy war. P. 162
personal data
SURNAME Fruminius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of León
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 10th century