Velasco Velásquez

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Velasco Velásquez was a Basque ruler of Pamplona in the early 9th century.

The Moorish chronicler Ibn Hayyan named "the enemy of God" Velasco ('adūw Allāh Balašk al-Yalašqī) as the lord of Pamplona in 816, who was attacked and defeated by a Moorish army. This source has nothing to report about his whereabouts after the battle.

Velasco was probably the successor of Aureolus († 809) as count of the Franconian kings in Pamplona, ​​under whose control the city had been since 806 since the expulsion of the Muslim Banu Qasi . His defeat against the Moors is likely to have favored the National Basque resistance under Íñigo Arista and the Banu Qasi, as a result of which Pamplona was lost to the Frankish Empire in 824 .

Velasco may have been an uncle of García Galíndez , Count of Aragón , whose father had also borne the patronym "Velásquez".

Remarks

  1. ^ Evariste Levi-Provençal, Emilio García Gómez: Textos inéditos del "Muqtabis" de Ibn Hayyan sobre los orígenes del reino de Pamplona. In: Al-Andalus. Vol. 19 (1954), p. 297.
  2. ↑ Annales regni Francorum, ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica , SS rer. Germ. 6 (1895), p. 122 .
  3. ↑ Annales regni Francorum, ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in: Monumenta Germaniae Historica , SS rer. Germ. 6 (1895), p. 166.

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SURNAME Velasco Velásquez
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Pamplona
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century
DATE OF DEATH 9th century