Bahlul Ibn Marzuq () (died 802) was born in the current term of

La Puebla de Castro La Puebla de Castro () is a municipality located in the Huesca (province), province of Huesca, Aragon, Spain. According to the 2004 census (Instituto Nacional de Estadística (Spain), INE), the municipality has a population of 372 inhabitants. Re ...

(Huesca), was a Vascon-

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, the son of a local lord named Marzuq ibn Uskara ("son of the

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"). He rebelled in

Zaragoza Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...

against the

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-Muslim government of

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in 798, and in 800 conquered

Huesca Huesca (; an, Uesca) is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and of the comarca of Hoya de Huesca. In 2009 it had a population of 52,059, almo ...

from the

Banu Salama The Banu Salama ( ar, بني سلمة) were an Arab Hejazi family that governed the regions of Huesca and Barbitanya (Barbastro) in the Upper March of Al-Andalus from c. 780-800 CE. In 800, the former ally of the Banu Salama, Bahlul Ibn ...

. His rebellion carried popular support, especially after public backing by theologian

Ibn al-Mughallis Abdallāh ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad (), better known as Ibn al-Mughallis (), was a medieval Arab Muslim theologian and jurist.Muhammad ibn Jarir al-Tabari, History of the Prophets and Kings, trans. Franz Rosenthal. Vol. 1: General Introductio ...

.Göran Larsson, ''Ibn García's Shuʻūbiyya Letter: Ethnic and Theological Tensions in Medieval al-Andalus'', pgs. 77-78. Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2003. His exploits helped the Franks to conduct their siege and take Barcelona in 801. The emir sent the Huesca native, general

Amrus ibn Yusuf 'Amrus ibn Yusuf al-Muwallad al-Laridi ( ar, عمروس بن يوسف المولد, died 808/9 or 813/4) was a Muwallad (probably of Visigothic origin) general of the Emirate of Córdoba and governor of Zaragoza. Amrus, a native of Huesca, and h ...

, and Zaragoza and Huesca were retaken (c. 801). Bahlul fled to

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where he was killed by his lieutenant

Jalaf Ibn Rashid Jalaf ibn Rashid ibn Asad () was a lieutenant of Bahlul Ibn Marzuq, the rebel leader of the Zaragoza region in Spain, who conquered Huesca in 800. When Bahlul was defeated by troops sent by the Spanish Wāli and fled to Pallars, he was killed by ...

(802), who at the time held Barbitanya (

Barbastro Barbastro (Latin: ''Barbastrum'' or ''Civitas Barbastrensis'', Aragonese: ''Balbastro'') is a city in the Somontano county, province of Huesca, Spain. The city (also known originally as Barbastra or Bergiduna) is at the junction of the rivers Cinc ...

). The adventures of Bhalul were collected by the Muslim historian and geographer Ahmad ibn Umar al-Udri (1003-1085) in the popular epic poem written in Arabic known as "the archuza de Bahlul".

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Archuza de Bahlul ibn Marzuq, the Liberator
802 deaths 8th-century Al-Andalus people Basque Muslims Year of birth unknown Upper March {{Al-Andalus-bio-stub