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Banu Qasi (
Arabic:
بنو قاسي (
Banū Qāsī), meaning "sons" or "heirs of Cassius") was the name of a
Basque Muladi (Visigoths or Hispano-Romans converted to Islam) dynasty that ruled
Tudela and the lands around it in the
9th and
10th centuries. It was eventually conquered by the expansive
taifa of
Zaragoza at the beginning of the
11th century. The dynasty descended from the
Hispano-Roman or
Visigoth Count Cassius, and was a
patrilineal dynasty: that is, the father's position and power was inherited by his sons, particularly the eldest son (
primogeniture).
Their chief seat was
Tudela, and they also held
Olite and
Arnedo. The autonomous realm of the Banu Qasi was an important ally of the
Kingdom of Pamplona. Both states buffered each other from the incursions of the larger Muslim and
Christian kingdoms around them. In fact they helped each other even in their very beginnings, when the Banū Qāsī and Pamplonese troops defeated the
Franks at the third
Battle of Roncevaux (
824).
After losing Tudela to Zaragoza, the Banū Qāsī were able to establish a modest realm at
Alpuente (
Aragon).
Alfonso the Battler of
Navarre and
Aragon conquered Tudela in
1115. The Muslim and
Jewish communities living there remained protected by the Navarrese state until the
Castilian conquest of
1512-
22, when the
Spanish Inquisition forced their conversion or exile.
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