On Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 9:23:22 PM UTC-7, taf wrote:
> “Descendência hispânica do Profeta do Islão – exploração de algumas
> linhas primárias”, in Armas e Troféus, IX série, 2011-2012, Instituto
> Português de Heráldica, Lisboa, pp. 31-59
There is one additional relationship that is worth addressing, because it is indicative of the nature of these things.
Rei shows Musa ibn Musa with two wives, Assona, daughter of Inigo Arista, and Oneca Velasquez, daughter of Velasco, lord of Pamplona. The first of these wives comes from the Codice de Roda. It must be said that this relationship falls before the historical horizon of that source. I think there is room to question whether this statement was an attempt to reflect a non-descript memory of relationship-via-a-female that is reflected in al-Muqtabis of Ibn Hayyan as a half-brother relationship between Musa ibn Musa dn Inigo Arista. This relationship is central to the chain that led to the 'second wife' of Musa ibn Musa.
Not helpful is a specific ambiguity in al-Muqtabis. He refers to brothers "ily ibn Wannaqo" (the lord Iniguez) and "Furdoun ibn Wannaqo" of Pamplona, and to Musa ibn Musa, half-brothe rof both. Elsewhere he reports the death of Wannaqo ibn Wannaqo, lord of Pamplona and the succession of his son as "Garsiyya ibn Wannaqo". A full reading makes it clear that the Lord Iniguez and Inigo Iniguez are the same, but as knowledge of these texts first drifted into the genealogical community, before their formal publication, some authors were confused over who it was how it all fit together and who was brother and half-brother of whom. As usual, these problems persisted in English-language sources longer, with one common compendium from the 1970s reporting that a non-existent king Inigo Iniguez succeeded Inigo Arista, to be followed by his brother of Garcia Iniguez. One likewise, in early-to-mid-20th century sources, finds every manner of placement of Musa ibn Musa and Inigo Arista with respect to the marriage that united the two families (half-brothers vs step-father and step-son or themselves husband of the same woman).
There are three assumptions of slip-shod medieval genealogy we see frequently: that genealogy abhors a vacuum, that everyone who held power in a region must be related, and that everyone with the same name must either be the same person or related. Each of these comes into play in the creation of Oneca Velasquez. First, the name Oneca (the feminine form of Inigo), as one of the few names we know from the region and period, so it has separately been tapped to serve as the name of the wife of Inigo and also that of his mother.
Independent of this is the supposed parentage of Inigo's wife. There are three references to the name Velasco in the early days of Pamplona. In 816, we read in al-Muqtabis, Velasco, lord of Pamplona and an army that included Garcia Lopez, nephew of king Alfonso, Sancho, premier knight of Pamplona, and Saltan, knight among the pagans (apparently representing Zaldun, Basque for knight) were defeated by the troops of the emir. Nothing more is known of any of these people.
Later, again from al-Muqtabis, we learn that during the rebellions of the 940s and 950s a Velasco Garces went over to the Cordoban side. Finally, we have from the Codice de Roda a Garcia Velasquez (son of Velasco), who strong-armed his way into the county of Aragon in resentment over a practical joke played on him by the Count's son. There have been sloppy attempts to link these three Velascos together, making Garcia Velasques the son of Velasco the turn-coat, himself made son of king Garcia Iniguez (even though there is no indication in al-Muqtabis that this was the case, and Velasco appears to have been Garcia's contemporary). To explain the introduction of the name Velasco into the family (as if the use of such a common Basque name by a Basque dynasty needed explanation), it then makes king Garcia the son of Inigo Arista by the daughter of the earlier lord Velasco (ignoring that Inigo was, prior to 840, in the pro-Cordoba camp that crushed Velasco in 816). This neatly ties together all of the men named Velasco and the leaders of both Pamplona factions along with Aragon into a single descent. No basis for any of it, other than the supposition that everyone named Velasco must be related/identical, but there it is.
Now, combine the groundless naming of Inigo's wife as Oneca with the this chain of Velasco descent and you get Oneca Velasquez, wife of Inigo Arista and daughter of Velasco. With both Inigo's wife and mother, separately, being assigned the name Oneca, and with the older sources confusing which Inigo was married to the same woman as which Musa, this has somehow led to the transfer of Oneca Velasquez, supposed wife of Inigo Arista, to Musa ibn Musa.
Thus, by combination of invention, supposition and confusion, we manage to arrive at the marriage reported by Rei.
taf