Munia of Álava

Munia of Álava (fl. 760s) was Queen Consort of Aturias as the wife of Fruela I of Asturias.

Biography Munia of Álava was born in Álava.

The early tenth century Chronicle of Alfonso III in its first Rotense version records that after a rebellion against Fruela I of Asturias by the Basques was suppressed, the Asturian King "took from among them his wife, named Munia, with whom he fathered his son Alfonso.” who secretly married Sancho Díaz, count of Saldaña and became the mother of Bernardo del Carpio.

Munia of Álava's husband was assassinated in 768 in Cangas de Onís and she fled with her children to the Monastery of San Xulián de Samos. During the reign of Alfonso II's aunt Adosinda's husband Silo of Asturias, Alfonso was the governor of the royal palace. On Silo's death, Alfonso was elected king by Adosinda's allies, but the magnates raised his uncle Mauregatus to the throne instead. Alfonso fled to Álava where he "took refuge among his mother's relatives."