Lara in Asturias

Who he is

Name

Fernando Núñez de Lara

Title

Royal tenant of Asturias de Oviedo (1200) and castellan of Queen Berenguela's Asturian castles

Since

At the Leonese court from 24 June 1199; Asturias de Oviedo attested in 1200; arras castles from 8 December 1199

Born

Not pinned (son of Count Nuño Pérez de Lara, died 1177)

Family

Son of Count Nuño Pérez de Lara and Teresa Fernández de Traba, who as a widow married Ferdinand II of León, so he grew up partly at the Leonese court. Brother of Álvaro and Gonzalo Núñez de Lara; cousin of Count Gómez González de Traba.

Confidence

medium

English Wikipedia (dated court presences and tenancies).

Overlord

Alfonso IX for Asturias; Queen Berenguela for the arras castles

What it holds

• Asturias de Oviedo, as royal tenant (1200)
• For Queen Berenguela: Aguilar, Gozón, Ventosa, Buanga, Oviedo, Santa Cruz de Tineo, Tudela

How it was acquired

Royal grant; homage to the queen under the arras.

Allies and rivals

A Lara: brother of Álvaro Núñez de Lara of Castile; Traba kin; rival of the Castros.

How things stand that morning

On 1 January 1200 he is at the Leonese court and holds Asturias de Oviedo and the queen's Asturian castles.

Wealth

Rents of central Asturias; Castilian lordships of his own (not in this file).

Military

His Castilian household; the castles' garrisons; no figures.

Threats

• Leonese resentment of a Castilian in the Asturian castles
• His own return to Castile

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. After 6 January 1200Leaves the Leonese court; Alfonso VIII's alférez from 1201. Whether he keeps Asturias and the castles through 1200 is not pinned.Depends on: His career in Castile Stopped by: Alfonso IX keeping him in León

Places of note

• Castle of Oviedo: Arras castle

Where the sources disagree

• A Castilian serving León on 1 January 1200: allegiance set to leon for these holdings; the Castile file may also carry him.

Evidence: Court presences and tenancies dated from charters; the Asturian castle names Aguilar, Ventosa, Buanga and Tudela not located.

On the map: The tenancy is drawn as central Asturias; Asturias de Tineo (west) and the Llanes coast (east) are not pinned for 1200.

Primary sources for León

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Annals of Toledo and other short Iberian annals (12th and 13th centuries; Anales Toledanos I to 1219). Florez's volume 23 gathers the short annals of the peninsula. Read online
• Chronicle of the World (Lucas of Tuy), Lucas de Tuy (1236, for Queen Berenguela). The Leonese counterpart to Rodrigo, written at San Isidoro for Berenguela. Read online
• Historical Monuments of Portugal: Writers (Annals of King Afonso, Chronicon Conimbricense, Chronica Gothorum and others) (12th to 15th centuries). The Portuguese annals in one volume. Read online
• Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile, Anonymous, probably Juan of Osma, chancellor of Castile (about 1223 to 1239). The chancellor's chronicle of Alfonso VIII's reign, detailed from the 1190s. Read online
• The Garden of Pages: a History of the Kings of the Maghreb and of the City of Fez, Ibn Abi Zar al-Fasi (completed in 1326 at Fez, for the Marinid sultan Abu Said Uthman). The Almohad chapters give a brisk dated narrative of al-Mansur's death and burial, al-Nasir's accession and the Banu Ghaniya troubles, with the kind of detail (coinage, public works at Fez and Rabat, prices, plagues) that a Fez compiler cared about, and the annals of Fez supply the city's governors and markets. Read online
• The Wondrous Account of the History of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi (about 1312, at Marrakesh). The Almohad section is the fullest year-by-year narrative of the caliphate around 1200: the last campaigns and the death of Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur in January 1199, the accession of his son Muhammad al-Nasir, the renewed war of the Banu Ghaniya in Ifriqiya under Yahya ibn Ishaq and his ally Qaraqush, the Almohad losses of Mahdia and Tunis a few years later, and al-Nasir's reconquest of Ifriqiya in 1205 to 1206 followed by the appointment of Abd al-Wahid ibn Abi Hafs as governor. Read online
• History of the Affairs of Spain, Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada (completed 1243). The archbishop's history of the peninsula, written forty years on by a Navarrese who served Castile. Read online
• The Gift of the Imamate, Ibn Sahib al-Sala (Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad al-Baji) (late twelfth century; the surviving part covers 1159 to 1173). The only Almohad court chronicle written from inside the administration, by a chancery secretary who travelled with the caliphs Abd al-Mu'min and Abu Yaqub Yusuf.

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