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Ansur, Assur, or Asur Fernández (died 947/50) was a powerful Castilian nobleman and military leader in the Kingdom of León during the reign of Ramiro II. He was the first Count of Monzón, probably from before 939, certainly by 943, and he was Count of Castile in 943–45 in opposition to the deposed Fernán González. His family was known as the Banu Ansúrez (Assuriz). The earliest reference to Ansur is found in a document dated 4 March 921, wherein he is named with his parents Fernando Ansúrez and Muniadonna in a donation in the vicinity of Burgos to San Pedro de Cardeña.〔Martínez, 197.〕 His father is not mentioned after 929, but the date of his death is unknown. The leader of the Banu Ansúrez who allied with the Banu Gómez in rebellion against Ramiro in favour of his abdicated brother Alfonso IV in the spring of 932 may have already been Ansur. If so, he was already a count by that time.〔The title count is given to the leader of this rebellion by Ibn Hayyan a century later.〕 According to the ''Anales castellanos primeros'', he participated in the Battle of Simancas in 939, where he is one of only two participating counts named, the other being Fernán González of Castile.〔". . . they (Saracens ) encountered there the king Ramiro and his counts with their armies, that is, Fernán González and Ansur Fernández and another crowd of squadrons of fighters" (''invenerunt enim ibidem rex Ranemirus et eius comites qui exierunt cum illo congregati cum suas ostes id est Fredenando Gundesalbiz et Asur Fredenandiz et alia multitudo acmina preliatores''), quoted in Martínez, 380.〕 This indication of his importance and his high rank may also indicate that by then the county of Monzón had already been created by Ramiro II for him. In July 941 Ramiro associated the counts of the Banu Ansúrez and Gómez families as well as Fernán González and Sancho Garcés II of Pamplona with him in a peace treaty signed with the Caliphate of Córdoba.〔The source, Ibn Hayyan, does not mention Ansur by name, but he was the leader of the Banu Ansúrez clan at the time.〕 Despite that Ansur bore the title "count" as early as 939, the earliest direct reference to the county of Monzón is from a diploma of 26 December 943, which reads ''regnante Ranimiro in Obeto et in Legione et comite Assur Fredinandiz in Montson'' (Ramiro reigning in Oviedo and León and Count Ansur Fernández in Monzón). By this act Ansur, his wife Guntroda,〔Possibly Gontroda Núñez, daughter of Nuño Vélaz.〕 and their children—Fernando, Oveco, Muño, Nuño, Gutierre, Gonzalo, and Teresa〔Only five (Fredinando, Obeco, Munnio, Gutier, Gundisalbo) are named in the copy of the charter in the ''Becerro gótico de Cardeña'' (a cartulary), but a fuller list was recorded by Francisco de Berganza in his ''Antigüedades'': Fernandus, Oveco, Munio, Nunno, Gutter, Gonzalvo, and Taresa.〕—donated the village of Fuente Adrada near Sacramenia to the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña. The gift was confirmed by a "Domna Toda", who signs right after the king. This may have been Toda of Navarre. A charter dated 1 August 937 refers to ''Assuri dominans Menduniae'' (Ansur ruling "Mendunia", a corruption of Monzón), but there appears to be an error in the dating clause; the correct date is probably 1 March 947.〔For Ansur's countship in Monzón, cf. Martínez, 376–78, and for a map of the County of Monzón, cf. p. 379.〕 After Ramiro deposed Fernán González in Castile, he appointed his own son, the future Sancho I, as count with Ansur acting as his "regent". By May 944 Sancho was in Burgos. There are four surviving charters from Ansur's brief reign in Castile; the earliest from November 943. The latest is dated to 1 December 945, though according to other sources Fernán González was reinstated in Castile on 22 April that year. Nonetheless, the reinstated Fernán signed royal documents below Ansur, indicating a reversal of rank.〔For Ansur's countship in Castile, cf. Pérez de Urbel, 493; Keller, 256–57; and Martínez, 390–92.〕 Ansur's only known daughter, Teresa, married Ramiro II's son Sancho I and was the mother of Ramiro III. She inherited, and her son through her, the county of Monzón after the death of Ansur's eldest son and successor, Fernando, in 978. In 976 Fernando boasted that his father had remained always faithful to his monarch and had served him with valour in a thousand battles.〔San Martín Payo (1988), 331 and (1993), 204.〕 ==Notes== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ansur Fernández」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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