Doña Onneca, una princesa vascona en la corte de los emires cordobeses [Doña Onneca. A Basque princess in the court of the Moslem Amir of Cordova]

Abstract

Onneca Fortun was the daughter of Fortun Garces, who was a grandson of Íñigo Arista. In the year 860, Muhammad I Amir of Cordova promoted an invasion of the territory of Pamplona. This country was governed by a chieftain named García Íñiguez, whose son Fortun Íñiguez was taken prisoner in a fortress together with his daughter Onneca and both of them were led to Cordova. There Onneca was loved by Abdallah, the son of the Amir Muhammad, and married him; they were the parents of Muhammad ibn Abdallah, the father of Abderrahman III. Afterwards, Onneca married her cousin Aznar Sanchez in Pamplona and were the parents of Queen Tota, the wife of Sancho Garcés I. This is the version generally held by the historians. But the author supposes that another Onneca, the sister of Fortún Garcés, was the true wife of Abdallah, based upon chronological estimations.