Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán

Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán
Spouse(s) Mayor Díaz
Noble family Guzmán
Father Munio or Nuño
Died c. 1186
Buried Monastery of San Cristobal in San Millán de Juarros

Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán or Rodrigo Núñez de Guzmán (died ca. 1186), considered the common ancestor of the noble house of Guzmán,[1] was a Castilian magnate and tenente of Roa and of the village of Guzmán in Burgos, from which this lineage took its name.

Biographical sketch

Genealogists have not yet agreed on the origins of this lineage or on the filiation of Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán and it can only be ascertained that, according to the onomastic customs of that time, he must have been the son of a Munio (Muño) or Nuño.[lower-alpha 1] He was a patron of several monasteries, including the Monastery of San Cosme and San Damián in Covarrubias and of the Monastery of San Cristóbal de Ibeas situated in San Millán de Juarros which had been founded by Álvaro Díaz de Oca and his wife Teresa Ordóñez, the maternal grandparents of his wife Mayor. Rodrigo and Mayor were buried there. On 20 February 1151, Gutierre Fernández de Castro with his wife Toda, and Rodrigo and his wife Mayor, Toda's sister, donated several properties that the sisters had inherited from their maternal grandparents, to the abbot of the monastery.[1][3]

Rodrigo Muñoz probably died shortly after 29 January 1186, the date when he last appears in medieval charters.

Marriage and issue

Atrium and tower of the Colegiata de San Cosme y San Damián de Covarrubias

He married before 1150 Mayor Díaz, daughter of Diego Sánchez, who died in the Battle of Uclés, and of Enderquina Álvarez, daughter of Álvaro Díaz de Oca and his wife Teresa Ordóñez.[1][2] At least nine children were born of this marriage:

Notes

  1. According to the Spanish genealogist Luis de Salazar y Castro, Rodrigo was the son of Álvar Núñez de Guzmán and Elvira de Manzanedo, ignoring the most basic usage of patronymics during the 10th, 11th, and 12th-centuries. The historian Gonzalo Martínez Díez dismisses this filiation as pure fiction and concludes that there is no documentary evidence enabling the identification of the Munio (Muño) or Nuño who would have been the father of Rodrigo.[2]
  2. He appears frequently with his siblings. In 1170 appears with his brothers Pedro and Fernando confirming the treaty of Zaragoza: "... Albaro rodriz de massiella, Petrus rodriz et ferrandus rodriz eius fratres".[6]
  3. In another document dated 1167, he mentions his brothers and sisters: Pero, Fernando, Rodrigo, Urraca, Sancha and Teresa.
  4. "We know nothing about the marriage or descendants of Fernando Rodríguez de Guzmán. Because of this lack of documentation and the fact that there was no record of any Félix de Guzmán, the supposed father of Saint Dominic, Salazar y Castro proposed the hypothesis, totally unfounded, that this Fernando was the father of Saint Dominic of Caleruega (...) We have checked several branches of the Aza and Guzmán lineages without having found Juana de Aza (supposed mother of the saint) or any Félix of Guzmán" (loose translation)[11]
  5. In old genealogical treatises, Pedro's wife is said to be a member of the Manzanedo family although this filiation is not confirmed in medieval charters. Jaime de Salazar y Acha suggests that she could have been an illegitimate daughter of William VIII of Montpellier and, therefore, half-sister of Maria of Montpellier, the mother of King James I of Aragon Sánchez de Mora proposes that Mahalda could have been the daughter of Manrique Perez de Lara, although she does not appear with her supposed parents or siblings in any document.[17][18]

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