Aznar I. Galíndez

Aznar I. Galíndez was a Carolingian officer in the Spanish Mark in the early 9th century. He is the progenitor of the reigning Galíndez dynasty in the county of Aragón .

The Frankish imperial annals report how Counts Aeblus and Asinarius were sent by Emperor Ludwig the Pious to Pamplona at the head of Basque troops in 824 , apparently to stabilize the authority of the Franconian Empire there. Both of them were ambushed by local mountain people, possibly led by Íñigo Arista , and captured. While Aeblus was sent as a prisoner to the Emir of Cordoba , Asinarius was due to his kinship with the Basques released to return to the emperor's court.

The counties of the Spanish mark in the 9th century.

The Asinarius , who was related to the Basques or even descended from them, was in all probability identical to the Count of Aragon, Aznar I. Galíndez (Asnari Galindones) named in the Codex de Roda . Apparently, as a follower of the Carolingians , he had exercised the function of count in the valley of the Río Aragón with the capital Jaca . This county represented the westernmost administrative district of the Spanish march of the Franconian Empire, directly in the west bordering the region around Pamplona, ​​which was controlled by the Basques, which remained independent and which were always able to successfully oppose the claim to rule of the Franconian kings (see Battle of Roncesvalles ). At an unspecified time, Aznar had been expelled from Aragón by his son-in-law García Galíndez "the evil one" ; his son Centulio was murdered in the process.

As the Codex de Roda further reports, Aznar returned to the Frankish royal court after this betrayal and was installed a little later as count in Cerdanya and Urgell . However, the credibility of this statement is in doubt. On the one hand because she names Charlemagne as the king to whose court Aznar is said to have returned, which for chronological reasons cannot be correct. On the other hand, because between the years 820 and 840, Count Sunifred I was in office in the counties of Cerdanya and Urgell . When Aznar Galíndez died is unknown. Occasionally he is identified as identical to the Count of Gascon , Aznar , who died a gruesome death in 836 in the revolt against the under-king Pippin I of Aquitaine . However, a document drawn up by him around the year 835 from the Abbey of Pessan shows him to be the son of a Sancho.

According to the Codex de Roda, the wife of Aznar I. Galíndez was a daughter of King García Íñiguez of Pamplona († 882), which for chronological reasons is once again a misinformation of this chronicle. Apparently he was mistaken for his grandson of the same name. His children were:

• Centulio Aznárez (murdered by his brother-in-law).
• Galindo I. Aznárez , Count of Aragon.
• Matrona Aznarez; ∞ with García Galíndez “the evil one” .
• Ailo Aznarez.

literature

• Charles Higounet: Les Aznar: une tentative de groupement de comtés gascons et pyrénéens au IXe siècle. In: Annales du Midi. Vol. 61 (1948), pp. 5-14.
• Philippe Sénac: Estudio sobre los primeros condes Aragoneses. In: Homenaje Carmen Orcástegui Gros (1999), pp. 1501–1506.

Remarks

1. ↑ Annales regni Francorum, ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica , SS rer. Germ. 6 (1895), p. 166.
2. ↑ Textos navarros del Códice de Roda, ed. by José María Lacarra de Miguel in: Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón. Vol. 1 (1945), §18, p. 240. ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Textos navarros del Códice de Roda, ed. by José María Lacarra de Miguel in: Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón. Vol. 1 (1945), §19, p. 241. ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Textos navarros del Códice de Roda, ed. by José María Lacarra de Miguel in: Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón. Vol. 1 (1945), §20, p. 242. ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ See Sénac (1999), pp. 1503-1504.
6. ↑ Annales Bertiniani, ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica, SS rer. Germ. 5 (1883), pp. 12-13.
7. ↑ Chroniques ecclésiastiques du diocèse d'Auch, ed. by Louis-Clément de Brugeles (1736), Preuves de la IIe partie, p. 34 . See Sénac (1999), p. 1504.

Web link

• CONDES de ARAGÓN 809-1035 at fmg.ac.