Wallada bint al-mustakfi biography for kids

11th-century Andalusian royal (d. 1091)

Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (Arabic: ولادة بنت المستكفي) (born in Córdoba in 994 or 1001^[1] – 26 March 1091)^[2] was an Andalusian poet and the daughter of the Umayyad Caliph Muhammad III of Córdoba.^[3]

Early life

Wallada was the daughter of Muhammad III of Córdoba, one of the last Umayyad Cordoban rulers, who came to power in 1024 after assassinating the previous ruler Abderraman V, and who himself was assassinated two years later in Uclés.^[4][5] Her mother is generally believed to have been an Iberian Christian slave.^[6] Her early childhood was during the high period of the Caliphate of Córdoba, under the rule of Al-Mansur Ibn Abi Aamir.^[7][8] Her adolescent years came during the tumultuous period following the eventual succession of Aamir's son, Sanchuelo, who in his attempts to seize power from Hisham II brought the caliphate into