Person:Onneca Fortúnez (1)

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Onneca Fortúnez or Iñiga Fortúnez (c. 848 – after 890) was a Basque princess from the Kingdom of Pamplona, later known as the Kingdom of Navarre. She was the daughter of Fortún Garcés of Pamplona and his wife Auria. At the time of Onneca's birth, which occurred between 848 and 850, the Iberian Peninsula was largely under the domination of the Muslim Umayyad dynasty. Only the northern kingdoms of Asturias, Pamplona and the Pyrenean threshold remained under control of Christian rulers. Onneca was a member of the Íñiguez dynasty, named after her great-grandfather Íñigo Arista, who founded the Kingdom of Pamplona.

Information about Onneca's life is limited. Biographical details about her come from two main sources: the Códice de Roda and the accounts of Muslim Andalusi historians, who refer to the grandmother of Abd al-Rahman III by the Arabic name Durr, meaning "pearl". Her marriage created family ties between the Christian and Muslim ruling families of the Iberian peninsula, initially leading to close collaboration between the Christian House of Íñiguez and the Muslim Umayyads. The political effects resulting from Onneca's marriages continued to be felt long after her death, which occurred at an unknown date.

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Onneca Fortúnez, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2.   ONECA (Íñiga) Fortúnez ((850)-), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

   Cawley notes that inconsistencies between sources (Ibn Idhari and the Codex de Roda) mean that some of the information from the Codex de Roda must be wrong. The order of the marriages can't be right, and another problem is that Fatima, the daughter of Abd Allah and Oneca/Dorr, would seem to have been born after 888, whereas Oneca had left Abd Allah in 880. Cawley suggests that perhaps Oneca was not in fact married to Abd Allah, or perhaps Muhammad ibn Abd Allah was not their son.