Guntislo Galíndez

Guntislo Galíndez (fl. c. 923), also spelled Guntisclo, Gutísculo, Gutisclo or Gutislo, was an illegitimate son of Galindo Aznárez II, the last independent count of Aragon. The name of his mother, one of Galindo's servants, is not known. The father died without surviving legitimate sons, and his counties were divided on his death between his legitimate daughters, Sobrarbe going to Toda Galíndez and her husband, Count Bernard I of Ribagorza, while Aragon passed to Andregoto Galíndez and her husband, King García Sánchez I of Pamplona.[1] The name Guntislo is of Gothic origin, and is in keeping with the naming practices of the Galíndez counts of Aragon, which favoured names of Gothic and Basque origin.[2]

Guntislo is known from only two sources: the genealogies found in the late 10th-century Roda Codex from the Kingdom of Pamplona and a single document from the cartulary of the monastery of San Juan de la Peña.[1] According to the Roda genealogy, "From other servants [Galindo Aznárez II] had [several illegitimate children, among them] lord Guntislo ... Lord Guntislo took as his wife lady Oria, sister of Jimeno Galíndez de Veral and lady Comitisa and daughter of lord Quintila, and they had [children unnamed]."[3] Quintila is known only from two documents of 22 November 947.[1] The genealogy is not entirely consistent, in that the sister of Jimeno Galíndez should be a daughter of Galindo.[4]

In a document dated to 948, King García Sánchez of Pamplona and his mother, Toda Aznárez, confirm a sentence passed by two judges, Galindo Aznárez and Jimeno Galíndez,[5] over a pardina (field) above Javierre (Scaberri). The document specifies that, at some point prior, the pardina was confirmed as an allod of San Juan de la Peña by two counts named Guntislo and Galindo.[1][6] In 948, the king divided the pardina between himself and the monastery.[7] The second judge, Jimeno Galíndez, may be identical with the Jimeno Galíndez de Veral who was Guntislo's brother-in-law. The historian Antonio Ubieto Arteta believes that the count Guntislo mentioned in 948 is probably the same as the son of Galindo Aznárez.[1] José María Lacarra doubts that they are related.[6]

The two sources, if referring to the same person, may be taken to suggest that Guntislo was count of Aragon for a time, probably after his father's death and before the county passed to García Sánchez of Pamplona.[1] His father was still living in 922, and Christian Settipani suggests that Guntislo was count from about 923 until 933.[4]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Ubieto Arteta 1989, pp. 201–02.
  2. ↑ García Moreno 1997, p. 637.
  3. ↑ Lacarra 1945, pp. 244–45, §24: De aliis anzillis habuit domno Guntislo ... Domno Guntislo acceptit uxor domna Oria [Aurea], Scemeno Galindonis de Berale seu domne Comitisse soror, domni Quintile filia, et genuit ...
  4. 1 2 Settipani 2004, pp. 89 n5, 90.
  5. ↑ Lacarra 1945, p. 245n: barons Galinod Ysinar et Scemeno Galindonis, iudicantes Aragone.
  6. 1 2 Lacarra 1945, p. 244n: comites domnus Gutisculus et domnus Galindo comis.
  7. ↑ Ubieto Arteta 1989, p. 381.

Sources

  • García Moreno, Luis A. (1997). "Una hipótesis germanista en los orígenes de Aragón" (PDF). Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español. 67 (Jan.): 633–41.
  • Lacarra, José María (1945). "Textos navarros del Códice de Roda" (PDF). Estudios de Edad Media de la Corona de Aragón. 1: 194–283.
  • Settipani, Christian (2004). La noblesse du Midi carolingien: Études sur quelques grandes familles d'Aquitaine et du Languedoc du IXe au XIe siècles. Oxford: Prosopographica et Genealogica.
  • Ubieto Arteta, Antonio (1989). Historia de Aragón, VI: Orígenes de Aragón. Zaragoza: Anubar.
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