Aysun

Aysun al Arabi was the son of Sulayman al -Arabi. His father was the Moorish Wali ( governor ) of Barcelona from 777 to 780

Sulayman stood in opposition to the Emir of Córdoba. Therefore, he had sent an offer to Charlemagne himself together with Hussein Wali of Zaragoza to subdue him and then together to fight the Emir. Then Charlemagne 778 moved through the Catalan Pyrenees to Saragossa. This army Aysun joined with his father.

Hussein of Zaragoza, disagreed, however, to have given a promise and refused to hand over his city. After a month-long siege Karl returned to the Great and took some of his allies with hostage, accusing them of having informed him wrong, including Sulayman. Aysun and his brother Matruh allied themselves then with the Basques, at the Battle of Roncesvalles beat the Frankish army and liberated her father (see also Song of Roland ).

After 780 his father was murdered on the Wali Hussein command Aysun switched sides and turned to the Emir of Córdoba. He participated in the conquest of Saragossa 781 and the subsequent campaign against the Basques and in the Cerdanya. Finally they moved to Barcelona, ​​where his brother Matruh, who managed the city on behalf of his father, recognized the authority of the Emir and appointed him to this Wali.

After 785 disappears without trace of Aysun. It is believed that he was in the conquest of Girona by the Franks captured from these and taken to Aachen. As an old man was he then 826 to escape and return to the Marca Hispanica succeeded.

Aysun established himself in the area of Vic and the crews of the surrounding castles joined a rebellion against the local new Count Bernard of Septimania. Many Gothic and Moorish nobles proponent of peace with the Frankish Empire joined Aysun.

As of yet young Count by the Emperor received help, Aysun turned to the only power that could resist the Franks, and sent his brother with a request for assistance to the emir of Cordoba, Abd ar - Rahman II The troops of his general Ubayd Allah ( also known as Abu Marwan ) 827 occupied the whole of the county of Barcelona, besieged the capital, and plundered the surrounding area. After it but did not succeed in taking Barcelona, ​​they besieged also unsuccessful Girona. Then the rebels left the country with the Moorish troops.

It is believed that Aysun was killed in Córdoba on the orders of the Emir, as it suspected him of treason.

In the chronicles of the leaders of Gotenaufstandes Aissó is called. Therefore it can not be ruled out that it could be explained by two different people, but whose biographies have certain parallels.

• Rulers ( Europe)
• Born in the 8th century
• Died in the 9th century
• Man