The Banu Qasi, Banu Kasi, Beni Casi (Arabic: بني قسي or بنو قسي, meaning "sons" or "heirs of Cassius"), Banu Musa, or al-Qasawi were a Muladí (local convert) dynasty that in the 9th century ruled the Upper March, a frontier territory of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba, located on the upper Ebro Valley. At their height in the 850s, family head Musa ibn Musa al-Qasawi was so powerful and autonomous that he would be called 'The Third Monarch of Hispania'. In the first half of the 10th century, an intra-family succession squabble, rebellions and rivalries with competing families, in the face of vigorous monarchs to the north and south, led to the sequential loss of all of their land.
The BanuQasi, Banu Kasi, Beni Casi (Arabic: بني قسي or بنو قسي, meaning "sons" or "heirs of Cassius"), Banu Musa, or al-Qasawi were a Muladí (local convert)...
and the reputed founder of the BanuQasi clan, to convert in 714. What is certain is that the existence of the BanuQasi was recorded from 789, in the...
Christians were not uncommon, such as between the Arista dynasty and BanuQasi as early as the 9th century. Blurring distinctions even further were the...
"Qasīy Qūmis"), was a Hispano-Roman or Visigothic nobleman who founded the BanuQasi dynasty. His actual existence has been contested on the grounds that embellishing...
headquarters. A contingent led by Musa ibn Musa al-Qasi, the leader of the semi-independent BanuQasi principality to the north, joined this army despite...
found a pivotal ally in the south in the Basque Muslim realm of the BanuQasi (early 9th century), and enjoyed some safety from the west as the Asturians...
stronghold in 781. A wali or governor was imposed, Mutarrif ibn-Musa (a Banu-Qasi) up to the 799 rebellion. In that year, the Pamplonese—possibly led by...
chieftain Iñigo Arista was elected King of Pamplona supported by the muwallad BanuQasi of Tudela, establishing a Basque kingdom that was later called Navarre...
former ally of the Banu Salama, Bahlul Ibn Marzuq, rebelled in Zaragoza, defeating the Banu Salama's Arab allies along with the BanuQasi in battle, taking...
in the earliest generation of the BanuQasi a son named Abu Salama, apparently hinting at a derivation of the Banu Salama from this Muwallad Upper March...
them) as holding onto polytheist religious practices and criticize the BanuQasi for allying with them.[citation needed] In 409, Vandals, Alans, and Suevi...
798–801 expelled them as well. The Vascones would finally consolidate the BanuQasi realm and eventually the constitution of the independent Kingdom of Pamplona...
thought to have been a governor of the city and a member of the muwallad BanuQasi family, was killed there by a pro-Frankish faction. During this period...
garrison.: 205–206 In 798, however, Pamplona is recorded as being under a BanuQasi governor, Mutarrif ibn Musa. Ibn Musa lost control of Pamplona to a popular...
December, 802, this time under Fortun ibn Musa, apparently a member of the BanuQasi, and Amrus was in the year 803/804 appointed as governor of Zaragoza....
Manteca, activist. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands Musa ibn Musa al-Qasi, ruler of BanuQasi dynasty. Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina. Jean Vrolicq, Basque...
in 882, where Alfonso had sent his son Ordoño to be educated with the BanuQasi, sons of Musa, advancing through the ancient Roman road to Leon. There...
Al-Tawil fled and was killed shortly afterward, and the power of the BanuQasi was severely crippled, while Galindo was forced into vassalage to Sancho...
(and thus grandson of the famous Musa ibn Musa ibn Qasi), from the prominent Muwallad Muslim BanuQasi clan, of Visigothic or Hispano-Roman extraction....
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