Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada
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Rodrigo Jiménez (or Ximénez) de Rada (c. 1170 – 10 June 1247)Archdiocese of Toledo from 1208 to 1247. He authored De rebus Hispaniae, a history of the Iberian Peninsula.
Biography
Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada was born circa 1170 in
archbishop of Toledo. His election as archbishop of Toledo was confirmed by Pope Innocent III on 12 February 1209. In addition, Alfonso VIII appointed him as major chancellor
of Castile.
He played a key role in the war against the
crusade in which many European knights took part. He sent afterwards missionaries to Morocco. His archbishopric gained a lot of possessions throughout the Guadalquivir valley, especially around Quesada
and received further generous donations from kings and lords.
As archbishop of Toledo, he promoted the building of the
Santiago
.
He promoted the cultural life of
Alfonso X
.
He died near Lyons while returning from a visit to the pope, and is interred in the monastery of Saint Mary of Huerta.
Writings
- De rebus Hispaniae[4][5]
- Hunnorum, Vandalorum et Silingorum Historia
- Ostrogothorum Historia
- Historia Romanorum
- Historia Arabum
See also
- Infante Philip of Castile
- Infante Sancho of Castile
Bibliography
- Gorosterratzu, Javier: D. Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada. Gran estadista, escritor y prelado, Pamplona: Imprenta Vda. de T. Bescansa, 1925
- Roderici Ximenii de Rada opera omnia (ed. by Juan Fernández Valerde), Turnhout: Brepols, 1992–1993
- Adro, Xavier: Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada. Estadista y artífice, siglo XIII, Barcelona: Casals, 1989
- Pérez de Rada, Francisco Javier: El arzobispo don Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, Madrid: Fundación Jaureguízar, 2002
- Pick, Lucy: Conflict and coexistence. Archbishop Rodrigo and the Muslims and Jews of Medieval Spain, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2004
Informational notes
References
- ^ History of slave trade Archived 20 April 2021 at the Wayback Machine, Volume I p. 22 "...as wrote the Archbishop Don Roderic of Toledo"
- ISSN 0066-5061.
- ISSN 0214-6452.
- ^ (in Spanish) Digitalized manuscript of the University of Seville: Jiménez de Rada, Rodrigo . Crónica de España por el Arzobispo de Toledo Don Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, traducida al castellano y continuada por Don Gonzalo de la Hinojosa, Obispo de Burgos, y después por un anónimo hasta 1430. Manuscrito. 14??. A 331/143
- ^ Modern Spanish edition: Historia de los hechos de España (translated and edited by Juan Fernández Valverde), Madrid: Alianza, 1989
