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From: Gabriel Wallgren< >
Subject: From Banu Qasi to the kings of Denmark
Date: 4 Jul 1995 09:43:22 GMT


In May I posted an article with the subject "Did the medieval nordic royal families decend from
Muhammed the prophet?". I got an answer from Todd A Farmerie (thanks Todd). According to
Todd A Farmerie there are reasons to seriously doubt if such a relationship exists, or at least
can
be demonstrated genealogically.
Some weeks later I contacted Rik Vigeland in the same subject and after several emails
we found a "new" line back to the arabs. The suggested pedigree does not say that the danish
kings decend from Muhammed, but from the (originally from the Basque country)
arab family Banu Qasi.

The qustionable generation is whether Oria (married to Fortun Garces, king of Pamplona) was
daughter to Musa ibn-Musa or not.

According to > Diccionario de Historia de Espana, Dirigido por Grman Bleiberg,
Madrid 1968 vol. 3, page 129 > there were two Queens of Pamplona with the name
"Oria". The first one was married to Garcia Iniguez (the father of Fortn Garcs). The second
one
was married to Fortn Garcs. The book doesnt tell who the parrents of Oria (married to Fortn
Garcs) were, but says that the Oria married to Garcia Iniguez was daughter to Musa ibn-Musa,
the third king of Spain.
Since it is never mentioned in any other litteratur that Garcia Iniguez was
married to Oria, I have drawn the conclusion that there have never existed
two Queens of Pamplona with the name Oria. There have only been one Oria
(married to Fortn Garcs) and she was a daughter of Musa ibn-Musa. Hence her
name should be written > Oria bint-Musa >.
The original source for the information in Diccionario de Historia de Espana are > Cronica de
los
Estados peninsulares, Granada, 1955, by Antonio Ubieto Arteta >
and > una Introduccion a la Historia de Espana, by Antonio Ubieto Arteta >.

If my conclusion are right the pedigree from the Banu Qasi to the kings of Denmark would be
like this:

Qasi (Cassius), count of the March in the time of the Goths. When the Muslims conquered al-
Andalus, he went to Damaskus in Syria and became a Muslim in 715, at the hands of al-Walid ibn
'Abd al Malik, a bond of patronage of which he was very proud.
Son:
Fortn ibn-Qasi.
Son:
Musa ibn-Fortun, governor on the upper border to al-Andalus. He vanquished Sa'id ibn al-Husayn
al Ansri who had rebelled against Hishm I in the region of Tortosa and Saragossa in 788/789.
He died in december 802. His widow (not named) remarried with Iigo Jimenez in his second
marriage and mother of Inigo Iniguez Arista, king of Pamplona 822-852.
Son:
Musa ibn-Musa, "the third king of Spain" governor of Huesca, Tudela and Saragossa in 852, killed
by his son-in-law Azrk ibn-Mantil on the 26:th of September 862 in Guadalajaro. Married 812
Assona Iiguez, daughter to Iigo Jimenez by his first marrige.
Daughter:
Oria (Aurea) bint-Musa married Fortn Garcs, king of Pamplona 882-905.
Daughter:
Oneca Fortun, princess of Pamplona, m. 1. 863 to Abdallah I, Emir of Cordoba, m. 2. 880 to
Aznar Sanchez de Larraun.
Daughter:
Toda Aznarez de Larraun, born approx. 885. m. Sancho I Garces, king of Pamplona and Navarra
905-925.
Son:
Garcia III Sanchez, b. 919; king of Pamolona and Navarra 931-970; d 970. m 1 Andregota
Galindez, countess of Aragon, d 972.
Son:
Sancho II Abarca, b approx. 940, king of Navarra 970-994, d 994. m 962 Urraca Fernandez,
countess of Kastilien.
Son:
Garcia IV Sanchez, b approx. 964; king of Navarra 994-999; d 999. m Jimena Fernandez,
countess of Cea.
Son:
Sancho III the great, b approx. 991; king of Navarra 999-1035; d 1035. m Munia Mayor, countess
of Kastilien.
Son:
Ferdinand I, b approx. 1017; king of Kastilien and Leon; d 1065. m 1032 Sancha, princess of
Leon.
Son:
Alfonso VI, b 1040; king of Kastilien and Leon; d 1109. Concubine: Jimena Nunez de Guzman.
Daughter:
Teresa, b 1070, d 1130. m Henrique, count of Portugal, b approx. 1066, d 1112.
Son:
Alfonso I the conqueror, b 1110; king of Portugal; d 1185. m Mafalda, countess of Savoyen.
Son:
Sancho I Martino, b 1154; king of Portugal 1185-1212; d 1212. m Dulcia, countess of Barcelona.
Daughter:
Berengaria, b. approx. 1194, princess of Portugal, Queen of Denmark, d 1221. m Waldemar II
Sejr, b 1170; king of Denmark; d 1241.
Sons:
1. Erik IV Plogpenning, king of Denmark 1241-1250
2. Abel, king of Denmark 1250-1252.
3. Christopher, king of Denmark 1252-1259.

Questions:
1) Can somebody confirm that Oria was a daughter to Musa ibn-Musa?
2) Who was Qasi married to? He was possibly married in Syria?!
3) Who was Fortun ibn-Qasi married to?
4) The name and the ancestry of the wife of Musa ibn-Fortun?

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