Fernando Rodríguez de Castro

Fernando Rodríguez

Alfonso VIII. He was nicknamed el Castellano ("the Castilian") in León and el Leonés ("the Leonese") in Castile.^[1]

Life

Fernando was the eldest son of
city of León, and controlled the city's fortifications (tenente turris Legionis, "held the towers of León") until 1182.^[6]

In the early summer of 1169, the
Annales compostellani
record Fernando's death in the year 1185, sometime after August 16.

Marriages

Fernando's first wife was Constance (Constanza) Osorio, daughter of count
Ramón de Campoamor
, the opening stanzas of which are:

Mi esposa Estefanía, que está en gloria,
fue del Séptimo Alfonso hija querida;
desde hoy sabréis, al escuchar su historia,
que hay desgracias sin fin en nuestra vida.

Yo la maté celoso; y si, remiso,
no me maté también la noche aquella,
fue por matar después, si era preciso,
a todo el que, cual yo, dudase de ella.

My wife Estefanía, who is in glory,
was of Alfonso VII a dear daughter;
after today you will know, upon listening to this story,
that there are misfortunes without end in our life.

Jealous, I killed her; and if, reluctant,
I did not kill myself also that night,
it was to kill later, if it was necessary,
all who, even I, doubted her.

Fernando also had an illegitimate son, Martín, by a woman named María Íñiguez, who is named in a document of Martín's son Pedro dated 1241.[11]

Notes

^ His first name may also be given as Fernán and his patronymic as Ruiz. In Latin his name is Ferdinandus Roderici.

References

^ ^a ^b Esther Pascua Echegaray, "South of the Pyrenees: Kings, Magnates and Political Bargaining in Twelfth-century Spain," Journal of Medieval History, 27 (2001), 110.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Simon Barton, The Aristocracy in Twelfth-century León and Castile (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 154–55.

^ James F. Powers (1987), A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000–1284 (Berkeley: University of California Press), 44.

^ Barton (1997), 154 n35.

^ Simon Barton, "Two Catalan Magnates in the Courts of the Kings of León-Castile: The Careers of Ponce de Cabrera and Ponce de Minerva Re-examined," Journal of Medieval History, 18 (1992), 259.

^ Barton (1997), 171.

^ ^a ^b Charles Julian Bishko, "The Spanish and Portuguese Reconquest, 1095–1492," A History of the Crusades, vol. 3: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Harry W. Hazard, ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975), 414.

^ Francisco Cillán Cillán, "La fortaleza medieval de la Sierra de Santa Cruz," Coloquios Históricos de Extremadura (2006).

^ Powers (1987), 42.

Chronica latina regum castellae
. The date given by Ibn Ṣāḥib conflicts with the dates of 1169 (cf. Bishko [1975], 414–15) or 1170 (cf. Julián Clemente Ramos, "La Extremadura musulmana (1142–1248): Organización defensiva y sociedad," Anuario de estudios medievales, 24 [1994], 649–50) found in other sources. Cf. Félix Hernández Giménez, "Los caminos de Córdoba hacia Noroeste en época musulmana, I," Al-Andalus, 32:1 (1967), 93.

^ Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1919), Documentos lingüísticos de España, vol. 1: Reino de Castilla (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Históricos), 379, doc. 280.

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[1] His first name may also be given as Fernán and his patronymic as Ruiz. In Latin his name is Ferdinandus Roderici.

[Esther_Pascua-2] Esther Pascua Echegaray, "South of the Pyrenees: Kings, Magnates and Political Bargaining in Twelfth-century Spain," Journal of Medieval History, 27 (2001), 110.

[barton154-3] Simon Barton, The Aristocracy in Twelfth-century León and Castile (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 154–55.

[4] James F. Powers (1987), A Society Organized for War: The Iberian Municipal Militias in the Central Middle Ages, 1000–1284 (Berkeley: University of California Press), 44.

[5] Barton (1997), 154 n35.

[6] Simon Barton, "Two Catalan Magnates in the Courts of the Kings of León-Castile: The Careers of Ponce de Cabrera and Ponce de Minerva Re-examined," Journal of Medieval History, 18 (1992), 259.

[7] Barton (1997), 171.

[bishko414-8] Charles Julian Bishko, "The Spanish and Portuguese Reconquest, 1095–1492," A History of the Crusades, vol. 3: The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Harry W. Hazard, ed. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975), 414.

[9] Francisco Cillán Cillán, "La fortaleza medieval de la Sierra de Santa Cruz," Coloquios Históricos de Extremadura (2006).

[10] Powers (1987), 42.

[11] Chronica latina regum castellae
. The date given by Ibn Ṣāḥib conflicts with the dates of 1169 (cf. Bishko [1975], 414–15) or 1170 (cf. Julián Clemente Ramos, "La Extremadura musulmana (1142–1248): Organización defensiva y sociedad," Anuario de estudios medievales, 24 [1994], 649–50) found in other sources. Cf. Félix Hernández Giménez, "Los caminos de Córdoba hacia Noroeste en época musulmana, I," Al-Andalus, 32:1 (1967), 93.

[12] Ramón Menéndez Pidal (1919), Documentos lingüísticos de España, vol. 1: Reino de Castilla (Madrid: Centro de Estudios Históricos), 379, doc. 280.

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