Paterna

m secondly ([842/44]%29 PATERNA, daughter of --- (-bur Oviedo). The Sebastiani Chronicon records that "Ranimirus…cum uxore sua Domna Paterna" were buried "Oveto"[165]. She is named as wife of King Ramiro in the inscription commemorating the foundation of the church of Santa María del Narranco dated 848[166]. Barrau-Dihigo refers to an epitaph naming "Urraca" as wife of "King Ramiro" (without specifying which King Ramiro)[167]. It appears that Salazar y Castro[168] deduced from this information that Paterna was King Ramiro's first wife and that his second wife was Urraca, daughter of Diego Rodríguez Conde de Castilla, but this is clearly impossible chronologically given the likely birth date range of Conde Diego. The Chronicle of Alfonso III records that, when elected as king, Ramiro was away having "travelled to the province of Vardulias to take a wife"[169], presumably dating this marriage to 842. Pérez de Urbel states that, for the early Christian chroniclers, "Vardulias" covered what was later Castile[170]. This must have been King Ramiro's second marriage considering the likely birth date of his eldest son.