Count Cassius

Count Cassius (8th century), also Count Casius, kumis Kasi or kumis Qasi, was a Hispano-Roman or Visigoth nobleman that originated the Banu Qasi dynasty.

Count Cassius converted to Islam in 714, after the Umayyad conquest of Hispania, as a means to preserve his lands and political power. Cassius was known to have travelled to Damascus to personally swear alligeance to the Caliph Al-Walid I.

At the time of the Muslim arrival and after, Cassius ruled an area comprising Tudela, Tarazona, Borja and probably Ejea.

See also

• Basque people
• Kingdom of Navarre
• Al-Andalus
• Taifa

References

• Alberto Cañada Juste, El posible solar originario de los Banu Qasi, in Homenaje a don José M.ª Lacarra..., Zaragoza, 1977, I.

External links

• Banu Kasi, Casius, Kasi and Qasi in the Spanish-language Auñamendi Encyclopedia.