Inigo arista

Íñigo Arista (Íñigo Íñiguez  or Íñigo Jímenez )  (770/790-851) was the founder of the Arista dynasty -Íñiga, and Count of Bigorra. Although traditionally he has been considered the first king of Pamplona —as well as the fifth king of the kingdom of Sobrarbe—, today many historians prefer to speak of a "kingdom in a latent state" for the territory and its inhabitants than Arista and his descendants García Íñiguez de Pamplona and Fortún Garcés led between 824 and 905.. In any case, Arista gained leadership with the support of his relatives, the Banu Qasi, and faced a Frankish expedition which he defeated at the second battle of Roncesvalles. The origin of the nickname Arista or Ariesta can be found in the oldest preserved text that speaks of him, the Crónica pinatense:

And as abyss and decorated haver battles continue with the Moors that barely runs a safe day. Et for this they gave him a name, Ariesta, because I roast like the risk. near the fire in a moment cream, Assín the ditus king Don Ennego, knowing that the Moors would have battles with him, in a moment was with them; Assín of the Oras entaqua huvo name Ennego Ariesta.

Family

The origins of Íñigo Arista are obscure, he was possibly the son of Íñigo Jiménez, military chief of the Basque clan of the Iñigos of Pamplona, and his wife Oneca, who after being widowed married Musa ibn Fortún, and by this marriage, He was the half-brother of Musa ibn Musa. He could also be the son, grandson or nephew of Jimeno el Fuerte, with whom he is related since he belongs to the Iñiga dynasty.

He could have been married to a sister of the Aragonese count Aznar Galíndez, or to Onneca Velázquez of Pamplona, although the possibility that he was polygamous is not ruled out. He had at least four children; two sons, García and Galindo, and two daughters, Assona, and another daughter whose name is unknown.

Background

In the year 799, the governor of Pamplona, Mutarrif ibn Musa, a member of the Banu Qasi dynasty, was assassinated in a citizen revolt that brought a member of the Velasco family to power. In the year 806, both Navarrese and Pamplona submitted to Carolingian authority. Ludovico Pío sent an expedition in the year 812 against Pamplona. On his return, the expedition members took women and children hostage to protect themselves during the passage of the port of Roncesvalles.

Command

Íñigo Arista came to the Pamplona leadership with the support of the Banu Qasi family, on an indeterminate date between the years 810 and 820. He was proclaimed on the Oroel rock, in Jaca, by three hundred knights. According to Eulogio de Córdoba, it was titled christicolae princeps. His kinship with the Banu Qasi allowed Íñigo to control the region between Pamplona and the Pyrenean valleys of Irati and Hecho.

Around 820, he helped Garcia the Bad, his son-in-law, seize the county of Aragon and shake off Carolingian control.

In the year 824, Ludovico Pío sent a second expedition against Pamplona led by the counts Eblo and Aznar I Galíndez to try to restore Frankish control. The counts were defeated in the second battle of Roncesvalles by Íñigo Arista, who received the support of his relative Musa ibn Musa and García el Malo. While Aznar, perhaps by virtue of his relationship with Íñigo, was released, Eblo was released. sent as a prisoner to Córdoba.

In the year 841 he fell victim to an illness that left him paralyzed. His son, García Íñiguez, was in charge of the regency until Íñigo's death in 851. During his son's regency, the (future) kingdom of Pamplona collaborated with the Banu Qasi in the 843 uprising against the caliphate Umayyad, put down by Abderramán II, which implied Andalusian reprisals in Pamplona.

Offspring

Due to his marriage or marriages, Íñigo Arista was the father of:

• Assona Íñiguez, wife of her uncle Musa ibn Musa, half brother of Iñigo;
• García Íñiguez, regent during the invalidity of his father and ruler after his death;
• Galindo Íñiguez, perhaps nephew of Aznar I Galíndez, who was wounded in battle during the uprising of the Banu Qasis and was the father of Musa ibn Galindo, emplí de Huesca;
• An unknown daughter married to Count Garcia the Malo.