Emir and Al-Andalus Vascones
- Miracle (Navarra) 860. In an attack by Emir Muhammad I ibn Abd ar-Rahman in Córdoba, Orti and Oneka, the son of the second king of Pamplona, Gartze Enekoez, were arrested and transferred to the capital of Al Andalus.
They would return to Pamplona after 20 years of kidnapping; Orti I would be proclaimed king of Garcés when his father died and would marry his cousin Oneka Azeaz, Sancho de Larraun for the second time. But they were not prisoners, but in the court of Córdoba they had great ways characteristic of the royal family and maintained cordial and close relations with the governor of the Emirate. Above all, Oneka, who first married Abd Allah, son and heir of the Emir. But he wasn't the first to introduce Vasconi blood into the Emir family. According to Ibn Hayyan, Al-Udri and other chroniclers of the time, the mother of Abd Allah was also a Vascona.
Oneka and Abd Allah I.ak have three children. His son Muhammad II would be the next emir and he would also take a vascona for his wife: Muzna.
The son of Muhammad and Muzna, Abd ar-Rahman II I.ak, self-proclaimed caliph and turned Córdoba into the capital of the Caliphate of Mendavaldea. To justify this evolution, he claimed that he was heir to the Omei, so it happened to Mohammed. But since he was the son of Vascones, grandson and great-grandson, he had more Vascon than Arabic. Ibn Hayyan had gathered that Al-Andalus's first caliph was red-haired, white and blue eyes, and henna hair was dyed to look more Arabic.
And yet, Maryam married the Vascon. His son Alhak, II.ak, also received in his harem a Vascon slave named Subh. In this same section we gathered (ARGIA, No. 2508) that Subh, besides being the mother of the caliph Hisham, acquired real political power, first with Almanzor and then against him.
Abd ar-Rahman, the son of Almanzor, would not manage to maintain the title of caliph, since he was killed in 1009. The caliphate would then be divided into the kingdoms of Taif. But would you guess that Abd ar-Rahman's mother was from Abda where she was from? A vascon, of course. García Sánchez II was the sister of the king of Pamplona, therefore, Aunt of Sancho the Mayor, and in his homeland he was called Urraka.
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