Aysun

Aysun al Arabi ( Arabic عيشون بن سليمان بن يقظان العرابي Aysun ben Sulayman ben Yaqdhan al-Arabí ) was the son of Sulayman al-Arabi ( Arabic سليمان بن يقظان الكلبي الأعرابي Sulayman ben Yaqdhan al-Kalbí al-Arabí ). His father wasthe Moorish Wali (governor) of Barcelona from 777 to 780 .

Life

Sulayman was in opposition to Abd ar-Rahman ( Arabic عبد الرحمن الداخِل), the first emir of Cordoba . Therefore he had sent an offer to Charlemagne to submit himself together with Wali Hussein of Saragossa to him and then to fight the emir together. Then Charlemagne moved through the Catalan Pyrenees to Saragossa in 778 . Aysun and his father joined this army.

However, Hussein of Saragossa objected to having given a promise and refused to surrender his city. After a month-long siege, Charlemagne turned back and took some of his allies hostage whom he accused of misleading him, including Sulayman. Aysun and his brother Matruh then allied themselves with the Basques , defeated the Frankish army in the battle of Roncesvalles and freed their father.

After his father was murdered in 780 on the orders of the Wali Hussein, Aysun changed sides and turned to the Emir of Córdoba. He participated in the conquest of Saragossa in 781 and the subsequent campaign against the Basques and the Cerdanya . Eventually they moved to Barcelona, where his brother Matruh, who administered the city on behalf of his father, recognized the authority of the emir and made him a wali.

After 785 the traces of Aysun are lost. It is believed that he was captured by the Franks when Girona was conquered and that he was deported to Aachen . As an old man, he managed to escape and return to the Spanish Mark in 826 .

The revolt of Aissó 826

A nobleman by the name of Aysun or Aissó established himself in the area of Vic in 826 and the garrisons of the surrounding castles joined in an uprising against the local new Count Bernard of Septimania . Numerous Gothic nobles and Moorish advocates of peace with the Frankish Empire joined this revolt.

When the still young count received help from the emperor, Aysun turned to the only power that could withstand the Franks and sent his brother to the Emir of Cordoba, Abd ar-Rahman II, with a request for help . The troops of his general Ubayd Allah ( also known as Abu Marwan ) occupied the entire area of the county of Barcelona in 827 , besieging the capital and looting the surrounding area. But after they failed to take Barcelona, they besieged Girona without success . The rebels then left the country with the Moorish troops.

It is believed that Aysun was killed in Cordoba on the orders of the emir, who suspected him of treason.

In the chronicles the leader of the Gothic revolt is named Aissó . Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that they could be two different people, whose biographies, however, have certain parallels.

Web links

El hijo del Sulayman. (PDF, p. 61) on unizar.es, accessed on August 29, 2016

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Aysun ben Sulayman ben Yaqdhan al-Arabí. In: condadodecastilla.es. February 24, 2015, accessed August 29, 2016 (European Spanish).
↑ José María Lacarra: Historia política del reino de Navarra: desde sus orígenes hasta su incorporación a Castilla . tape 1 . Aranzadi, Pamplona 1972, ISBN 84-500-5699-3 , Carlomango viene a Zaragoza, p. 32 ff . (Spanish, fundacioncajanavarra.es [PDF]).
^ Història medieval de Catalunya . Edicions Universitat Barcelona, 2005, ISBN 84-475-2912-6 , sections 4. 804-826 and 5. 826, pp. 31-32 ( books.google.de ).
↑ ^a ^b Josep Camprubi Sensada: Conquesta i estructuració territorial del Berguedà (see IX-XI). La formació del comtat . Universitätsverlag, Leiden 2006, ISBN 84-8409-433-2 , pp. 39 f . ( books.google.de ).
↑ Jordi Auladell: Aissó i Guillemó, una revolta nacional a la Catalunya Vella del segle IX. In: histocat.com. Fundació d'Estudis Històrics de Catalunya, Ylos Diseño páginas web Tiendas Virtuales, June 9, 2009, accessed on August 29, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Aysun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Aysun al Arabi; al-Arabí, Aysun ben Sulayman ben Yaqdhan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Moorish general
DATE OF BIRTH	before 778
DATE OF DEATH	after 827

[condadodecastilla-1] Aysun ben Sulayman ben Yaqdhan al-Arabí. In: condadodecastilla.es. February 24, 2015, accessed August 29, 2016 (European Spanish).

[2] José María Lacarra: Historia política del reino de Navarra: desde sus orígenes hasta su incorporación a Castilla . tape 1 . Aranzadi, Pamplona 1972, ISBN 84-500-5699-3 , Carlomango viene a Zaragoza, p. 32 ff . (Spanish, fundacioncajanavarra.es [PDF]).

[3] Història medieval de Catalunya . Edicions Universitat Barcelona, 2005, ISBN 84-475-2912-6 , sections 4. 804-826 and 5. 826, pp. 31-32 ( books.google.de ).

[Revolte-4] Josep Camprubi Sensada: Conquesta i estructuració territorial del Berguedà (see IX-XI). La formació del comtat . Universitätsverlag, Leiden 2006, ISBN 84-8409-433-2 , pp. 39 f . ( books.google.de ).

[5] Jordi Auladell: Aissó i Guillemó, una revolta nacional a la Catalunya Vella del segle IX. In: histocat.com. Fundació d'Estudis Històrics de Catalunya, Ylos Diseño páginas web Tiendas Virtuales, June 9, 2009, accessed on August 29, 2016 .