Alfonso Fróilaz, called the Hunchback or, in Spanish, el Jorobado, was the king of Galicia for a short time, from 925 to 926. He seems to have claimed Asturias

Asturias

The Principality of Asturias is an autonomous community of the Kingdom of Spain, coextensive with the former Kingdom of Asturias in the Middle Ages...

 and León

Kingdom of León

The Kingdom of León was an independent kingdom situated in the northwest region of the Iberian Peninsula. It was founded in AD 910 when the Christian princes of Asturias along the northern coast of the peninsula shifted their capital from Oviedo to the city of León...

 as well, as the inheritor of Fruela II

Fruela II of León

Fruela II was the King of Asturias from the death of his father, Alfonso III of Asturias, in 910 to his own death. When his father died, the kingdom was divided, with the third son, Fruela, taking the original portion ; the second, Ordoño, taking Galicia; and the eldest, García, taking León...

, but was driven from the realm by his cousins Sancho

Sancho I Ordóñez

Sancho I Ordóñez was king of Galicia from 926 and until his death, in 929. He was the eldest son of king Ordoño II, and as his father did before him, he acquired the rights to Galicia when he and his brothers divided the kingdom among themselves....

, Alfonso

Alfonso IV of León

Alfonso IV , called the Monk, was King of León from 925 and King of Galicia from 929, until he abdicated in 931....

, and Ramiro

Ramiro II of León

Ramiro II , son of Ordoño II, was King of León from 931 until his death. Initially titular king only of a lesser part of Asturias, he gained the crown of León after his brother Alfonso IV abdicated in 931...

, the sons of Ordoño II

Ordoño II of León

Ordoño II was king of Galicia from 910, and king of Galicia and León from 914 until his death. He was the second son of King Alfonso III the Great and his wife, Jimena of Pamplona....

. Sancho succeeded him in Galicia while the rest of his father's realm went to Alfonso.

External links

• http://genealogy.euweb.cz/iberia/iberia2.html
• http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/ancient/il/iberia01.htm#link2
• http://members.fortunecity.es/edepaz/siglox1.htm
• http://www.diariodeleon.es/especiales/2004/historialeon/noticia.jsp?TEXTO=2925633
• http://home.freeuk.net/liwf/history/europe/iberia/leonk.htm