[1] The nobility had elected Alfonso II at Adosinda's insistence, but Mauregatus assembled a large army of supporters and forced Alfonso into exile in Álava.

According to folklore, Mauregatus and Moorish rulers agreed to the apocryphal "Tribute of the 100 Maidens," which gifted the Moors 100 Asturian virgins annually as repayment for their assistance in Mauregatus' rise to the throne.

This arrangement supposedly ended after Ramiro I's defeat of the Moors at the legendary Battle of Clavijo.

[2] After six years in power, he died of natural causes in 789 and was buried in the Church of San Juan Apóstol y Evangelista in Pravia.

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