Fruela (or Froila) was briefly the king of Asturias in 866 after usurping the throne from Alfonso III.
Sometime after that date, Fruela seized the throne and forced Alfonso into exile in Castile or Álava.
In the first flower of his adolescence—in the first year of his kingship and the eighteenth since his birth—he was deprived of his rule as the result of a rebellion by the apostate count of Galicia, Fruela.
After a short time, this same rebel and unfortunate king, Fruela, was killed by those faithful to our prince in Oviedo, and the glorious young man was brought back from Castile.
[8] Sampiro (and the Historia Silense) gives Fruela the patronymic surname "Jemúndez", implying that he had a father named Jemundo.
Upon his entry into the kingship, being fourteen years of age, a son of perdition, a certain Fruela Jemúndez, from the Galician regions came to claim the kingdom, which did not belong to him.