Count Cassius
Count Cassius (
His actual existence has been contested on the grounds that embellishing stories related to Gothic ancestry were rather popular during the
According to the 10th-century
The 11th-century Arab historian Ibn Hazm attributed five sons to Cassius: Fortun, Abu Tawr, Abu Salama, Yunus and Yahya. The Banu Qasi dynasty descended from Fortun, the eldest son; the second son may have been the Abu Taur of Huesca who invited Charlemagne to Zaragoza in 778; and the Banu Salama, a family that ruled Huesca and Barbitanya (Barbastro) in the late tenth century, may have descended from Abu Salama.[4]
At the time of the Muslim arrival and after, Cassius ruled an area comprising Tudela, Tarazona, Borja and, probably, Ejea.
References
- ^ Roger Collins, The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710-797, (Blackwell Publishing, 1994), 191, 204.
- ISBN 0-312-22464-8.
- ^ Ann Christys, Christians in Al-Andalus, 711-1000, p. 176.
- ^ Cañada Juste, Los Banu Qasi, pp. 7-9.
Bibliography
- Cañada Juste, Alberto (1977). "El posible solar originario de los Banu Qasi", in Homenaje a don José M.ª Lacarra..., Zaragoza, I.
- Cañada Juste, Alberto (1977). "Los Banu Qasi (714-924)", in Principe de Viana, vol. 41, pp. 5-95 (1980).
- Collins, Roger (1983). Early Medieval Spain. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-22464-8.
- Collins, Roger (1994). The Arab Conquest of Spain, 710-797 (Blackwell Publishing).
- Christys, Ann (eds.) (2002) Christians in Al-Andalus, 711-1000, Routledge. ISBN 0-7007-1564-9
- Glick, Thomas F. (eds.) (2005) Islamic and Christian Spain in the Early Middle Ages, BRILL. ISBN 90-04-14771-3
External links
- Banu Kasi, Casius, Kasi and Qasi in the Spanish-language Auñamendi Encyclopedia.
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