Monarchy and Nobility

Aznar Galíndez I

Azenari Galindones (809-838?).

Count of Aragon, under Aquitanian tutelage, he succeeded Aureolus in 809. He was the son of Galindo Aznar, Count of Ribagorza. In 812 he was deprived of his county by his son-in-law Garsea "Malo", married to his daughter Matrona. The event happened as follows, as recounted in the Codex of Mey:

"Azenari Galindones took as his wife ( Oneka Garzeiz ?) and fathered Zentulo Azenariz and Galindo Azenariz and Matrona. This Matrona was the wife of Garsea "Malo", son of Galindo Belascotenes and her father Fakilo, and because in the town called Belosta they locked him in a barn on St. John's Day, he killed Zentulo Azenariz and abandoned his daughter and took another wife, daughter of Enneco Arista, and made an alliance with him and with the Moors and threw him out of the County. Azenari Galindones then went to France and threw himself at the feet of Carolus the Great, who gave him the chance to populate Cerda and Urgel, where he lies buried."

In 824, he came to Pamplona on the orders of Louis the Baptist, the Aquitanian king, with a troop of Basques from beyond the Pyrenees. He was taken prisoner but spared because he was a relative of the victors.