Sesnando Davides

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The Romanesque cathedral Sé Velha in Coimbra, where Sesnando Davides is buried

Sesnando Davides (* in Tentúgal ; † 1091 (uncertain) in Coimbra ) was a Mozarabic knight and regent.

Names

He is and was also mentioned under other names like Sisnando Davidis , Sisnando Davidéz de Coimbra or Sisnando Davides de Coimbra , while he is known in Spain as Sisnando Davídiz .

biography

Born into a landowning family in Tentúgal, presumably, the son of Jewish parents, he came in 1026 when campaigns of Abbad II. Al-Mu'tadid in Arabic captivity. In Seville he received an Arabic education and became a minister and councilor at the Abbadid court .

After a falling out with a Moorish governor, he fled to the court of the Christian King Ferdinand I in León . He urged Ferdinand to conquer Coimbra and supported him in 1064 with an armed band of his own followers. Thereupon Ferdinand was raised to margrave of the restored county of Coimbra , to which his hometown Tentúgal belonged, and which he ruled until at least 1068.

Sesnando married Loba "Aurevelido" Nunes, the daughter of Margrave Nuno Mendes (Nuno Mendez), regent of the adjacent county of Portucale (Porto) to the north . While Nuno Mendes fell in battle against King Garcia of Galicia in 1071 , Sesnando took the side of King Alfonso VI. of León , who finally subjugated Garcia.

He was then involved in various campaigns of the Reconquista , including the conquest of Toledo in 1085. His 1080 strategic records are ascribed the original term Reconquista (German: Reconquest), which was only widely used in later times.

After his death in 1091 he was buried in Coimbra Cathedral, now called Sé Velha .

His life was the subject of a drama by José Freire de Serpa Pimentel (1814-1870), the second Visconde de Gouveia . The piece called D.Sisnado, Conde de Coimbra (Eng .: Dom Sisnado, Count of Coimbra) was published in 1838.

His son-in-law Martim Moniz initially followed him as Margrave of Coimbra and later also made a name for himself in the conquest and siege of Lisbon.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dr. Gustav Diercks: Portuguese History , page 39, Göschensche Verlagshandlung, Leipzig 1912
  2. ↑ a b José Mattoso: A nobreza portucalense dos séculos IX a XI - Do tempo e da história , part III, page 39. Instituto de alta cultura (Centro de estudos históricos), Lisbon 1970
  3. ↑ a b José Mattoso: As famílias condais portucalenses dos séculos X e XI - A nobreza medieval portuguesa, a família eo poder , page 115. Editorial Estampa Lda. (Imprensa Universitaria), Lisbon 1981
  4. ↑ www.eduscol.education.fr , accessed on November 12, 2012
  5. ↑ Person encyclopedia Quem é Quem - Portugueses Célebres. 1st edition, Temas & Debates, Lisbon 2009 ( ISBN 978-989-644-047-3 ), page 481
  6. ↑ www.rootsweb.ancestry.com , accessed November 12, 2012
  7. ↑ www.books.google.de , accessed on November 12, 2012
  8. ↑ www.fcsh.unl.pt (footnote 22), accessed on November 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Sesnando Davides
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sisnando Davídiz (Spanish); Sisnando Davides; Sisnando Davídez de Coimbra; Sisnando Davidez de Coimbra
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese knight and regent
DATE OF BIRTH 10th century or 11th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Tentúgal , Portugal
DATE OF DEATH 1091
Place of death Coimbra