Velasco The Gascon
Velasco the Basque ( ar, بلشك الجلشقي, ''Balask al-Galaski'')This is the Romanization of Collins 2012; Lévi-Provençal & García Gómez 1954 use ''Balašk al-Ŷalašqi''; and Cañada Juste 1976 uses ''Balashk al-Chalashqí''. was the Basque ruler of Pamplona in the early 9th century. Velasco may have come to power in 799 in the uprising that overthrew the Umayyad rule in Pamplona, when Muṭarrif ibn Mūsa, probably of the Banu Qasi, was assassinated there. The contemporary ''Annales Regni Francorum'' record that "the Navarri and the Pamplonans, who had defected to the Saracens in recent years, were received back into allegiance" in 806. Velasco must be seen as a pro-Frankish leader, perhaps even a Frankish appointee. According to the 11th-century ''Muqtabis'' of Ibn Ḥayyān, in the year 816 ( AH 200) the Córdoban ''ḥājib'' ʿAbd al-Karīm led an expedition against Velasco, whom he describes as the "lord of Pamplona" ( ar, صاحب بنبلونة, '' � ...
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