By what name was the Spanish nobleman Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar better known?
"Spanish epic poem. Based on a true story, it tells of the Spanish hero El Cid, and takes place during the Reconquista, or reconquest of Spain from the Moors. “The protagonist of the poem is the historical Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1045–1099), also known as Cid (a dialectal form of the Arabic word sayyid, 'lord' or 'master') and Campeador ('Battler' or 'Victor'). The poem begins with the departure of Rodrigo from his home in Vivar, the first of two exiles of Rodrigo decreed by Alfonso VI, king of Castile and Leon (1065–1109). In the poem this first exile (1081)"
"Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar Gómez de Sandoval y Mendoza, 7th Duke of the Infantado Rodrigo ""Díaz de Vivar"" Gómez de Sandoval y Mendoza (b. 4 April 1614 – d. 14 January 1657) was a Spanish noble of the House of Mendoza and the 7th Duke of the Infantado, serving in this office from 1633 until his death in 1657. The Dukedom of the Infantado had been in the hands of the Mendoza family since the very first duke, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza y Figueroa. The Mendoza family rose to power when it merged with the House of Lasso de la"
"Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Cenete Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, (c. 1466, Guadalajara – February 22, 1523, Valencia) was a Spanish noble of the House of Mendoza. He was the firstborn son of the powerful Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza and went on to become the 1st Conde del Cid and the 1st Marquis of Cenete, a title he held from 1491 until his death. He was the firstborn son of Cardinal Pedro González de Mendoza and Mencía de Lemos and a member of the powerful House of Mendoza family. He was schooled by"
"favored in the dispute by Philip I of Castile and Íñigo by Ferdinand II of Aragon. Rodrigo moved permanently to Valencia after his brother was named Viceroy. He played an active political and military role in the quelling of the Revolt of the Brotherhoods. He there displayed great diplomatic skill which in turn kept him in Valencia even after the death of his brother. With his second wife, María de Fonseca y Toledo: Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Cenete Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, (c. 1466, Guadalajara – February 22, 1523, Valencia) was a Spanish"
"Rodrigo de Borja (Spanish noble) Rodrigo de Borja was a Spanish noble of the prestigious House of Borja in the Kingdom of Valencia in the town of Borja, Zaragoza. He was head of house for this branch of the Borja family based on Ventres street in Xàtiva, the same branch which would later go on to become the infamous Borgia family in Italy. Rodrigo de Borja was born in 1349 in Xàtiva, Comunidad Valenciana. He was the son of Gonzalo Gil de Borja, who served as Jurado del Estamento Militar de Játiva in 1340, and his wife whose name is"
"Rodrigo de Vivero, 1st Count of Valle de Orizaba Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberrucia, 1st Count of Valle de Orizaba () (Tecamachalco?, New Spain, 1564–1636) was a Spanish noble who served as the 13th governor and captain-general of the Philippines from 1608 to 1609. He was the son of Rodrigo de Vivero y Velasco, a Spanish colonial officer who was the nephew of Viceroy of New Spain Luis de Velasco, and Melchora de Aberrucia, a widow of conquistador Alonso Valiente. He became the interim governor of the Philippines from June 15, 1608 to April 1609. While in Manila, Rodrigo de"
"son was still named after Rodrigo's second wife. Rodrigo de Borja (Spanish noble) Rodrigo de Borja was a Spanish noble of the prestigious House of Borja in the Kingdom of Valencia in the town of Borja, Zaragoza. He was head of house for this branch of the Borja family based on Ventres street in Xàtiva, the same branch which would later go on to become the infamous Borgia family in Italy. Rodrigo de Borja was born in 1349 in Xàtiva, Comunidad Valenciana. He was the son of Gonzalo Gil de Borja, who served as Jurado del Estamento Militar de Játiva"
"of Castile, and his wife, Leonor de Castilla y Alburquerque. His brother was Gómez Manrique, the poet and playwright. The Manrique line of the House of Lara, also known as the House of Manrique de Lara constituted one of the most powerful noble families in Medieval Spain, holding amongst their titles the Dukedom of Nájera and the Marquesado de Aguilar de Campoo. In 1520, when Charlex V of Spain first recognized the original 25 Grandes de Espana, their house was amply represented amongst the list. Rodrigo spent the bulk of his life in conflict with his arch enemy, Álvaro de"
"the time of King Alfonso VI and it was not until a century later that this custom became common. Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón (died 1193) was a magnate and ""ricohombre"" from Palencia who played a key role in the Medieval history of the Iberian Peninsula. He was the first one of his lineage to add ""Girón"" to his patronymic. Owner of vast holdings and estates, Rodrigo and his relatives formed one of the most powerful clans in Tierra de Campos since the time of the Banu Gómez. Mayordomo mayor of King Alfonso VIII of Castile between 1173 and"
"Diego Romo de Vivar Captain Diego Romo de Vivar (fl. 17th century) was a Spanish adventurer, explorer, royal governor and military officer, born in Rielves, Spain. He conquered and pacified a large part of the northern region of Mexico in present day Chihuahua. He began his adventures in the New World in the city of San Felipe, Guanajuato before becoming a fixture in Aguascalientes society among the colonial elites of Nueva Galicia. The adventures of the Romo de Vivar family begin with the protagonist, the younger Diego Romo de Vivar, who was born in Rielves in 1589. He moved in"
"Aldonza. He was the father of at least one son, Simón Royz, active in the reign of Alfonso X from at least 1246 to 1277. Rodrigo Díaz de los Cameros Rodrigo Díaz de los Cameros (fl. 1212–1221) was a Castilian magnate and one of the earliest Galician-Portuguese troubadours. He was the son of Diego Ximénez of La Rioja, the lord of Cameros, and Guiomar Rodríguez. He attained the highest noble rank (count), like his maternal grandparents, Rodrigo Pérez de Traba (""el Velloso"") and Fronilde Fernández. Rodrigo led a column of men at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in"
"García Ordóñez García Ordóñez (died 29 May 1108), called de Nájera or de Cabra and in the epic literature Crispus or el Crespo de Grañón, was a Castilian magnate who ruled the Rioja, with his seat at Nájera, from 1080 until his death. He is famous in literature as the rival of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the Cid, whose high position at court he took over after the Cid's exile in 1080. He was one of the most important military leaders and territorial governors under Alfonso VI, and was entrusted with military tutorship of the king's heir, Sancho Alfónsez, with"
"Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón (died 1193) was a magnate and ""ricohombre"" from Palencia who played a key role in the Medieval history of the Iberian Peninsula. He was the first one of his lineage to add ""Girón"" to his patronymic. Owner of vast holdings and estates, Rodrigo and his relatives formed one of the most powerful clans in Tierra de Campos since the time of the Banu Gómez. Mayordomo mayor of King Alfonso VIII of Castile between 1173 and 1193, except for short intervals, he and his descendants were part of one of the most powerful families in"
"because it did not respect the classical unities. Today, ""Le Cid"" is widely regarded as Corneille's finest work, and is considered one of the greatest plays of the seventeenth century. The stories of The Cid are based on the life of the Spanish warrior Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, who lived approximately from 1043 until 1099. The real ""Cid"" seems to have fought for both Muslims and Christians at different times and appears to have been a sellsword figure. In the play, however, he is lauded solely as a Christian soldier. The name ""El Cid"" was derived from the Arabic word"
"Rodrigo Muñoz (Asturian count) Rodrigo Muñoz (""floruit"" 1084–1116), son of Count Munio González and Mayor Muñoz, was a Castilian magnate in the kingdoms of León and Castile. His tenancies were mostly in Cantabria, in the northern Castilian lands bordering the Basque country. Rodrigo is first mentioned in June 1085, when he and his sister Jimena made a pious donation to Santa María del Puerto. In July 1090 he and his brother Gutierre judged a lawsuit between the church and a certain Martín Cídez. He married a woman named Teresa sometime before March 1103, when they completed an exchange of properties"
"parents had received by a royal grant of Urraca of Zamora and Elvira of Toro in 1099. Osorio succeeded Rodrigo as count and received his ""tenencias"" of Aguilar, the Campos, León, and Zamora. Rodrigo Martínez Rodrigo Martínez () (died July 1138) was a Leonese nobleman, landowner, courtier, military leader, governor, and diplomat, ""the most powerful lay figure in the region of the western Tierra de Campos,"" who ""emerges as far and away the most regular visitor to the court of Alfonso VII between 1127 and 1138."" He was a member of the Flagínez family, rose to the highest rank in"
"Nuño Álvarez de Carazo Nuño Álvarez de Carazo (""floruit"" 1028–1054) was a Castilian nobleman, diplomat, and warrior. Throughout his career he maintained important relations with the Kingdom of Navarre, which his lands and lordships bordered. There were at least three persons named ""Nuño Álvarez"" in mid eleventh-century Castile. Nuño Álvarez de Carazo appears in sixteen documents between 1033 and 1054 with the honorific ""duenno"" or ""domno"" and two with the territorial appellation ""de Carazo"". He was the eldest of his brothers and may have been the maternal great uncle of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, his brother Rodrigo being the father"
"Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán or Rodrigo Núñez de Guzmán (died ""ca."" 1186), considered the common ancestor of the noble house of Guzmán, was a Castilian magnate and ""tenente"" of Roa and of the village of Guzmán in Burgos, from which this lineage took its name. Nothing is known about the parentage or ancestry of Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán. The onomastic customs of that time dictate that, given his patronymic Muñoz, he must have been the son of a Munio (Muño) or Nuño. He was a patron of several monasteries, including the Monastery of San Cosme and"
"Rodrigo Velázquez Rodrigo Velázquez (died 977/8) was an important magnate of Galicia during the reigns of Ramiro II, Ordoño III, Sancho I, and Ramiro III. He used the title ""dux"" (duke), the highest in Galicia at the time, and he even treated diplomatically with the Caliphate of Córdoba. He has been implicated in factional fighting over the succession to the Leonese throne, but the major battle of his career was part of a private aristocratic feud. Rodrigo was the son of count Velasco Rodríguez (""Uelasco Ruderiz"") and his wife countess Trudilde (""Trudildi""). There is a notice in the monastery of"
"Rodrigo Díaz de los Cameros Rodrigo Díaz de los Cameros (fl. 1212–1221) was a Castilian magnate and one of the earliest Galician-Portuguese troubadours. He was the son of Diego Ximénez of La Rioja, the lord of Cameros, and Guiomar Rodríguez. He attained the highest noble rank (count), like his maternal grandparents, Rodrigo Pérez de Traba (""el Velloso"") and Fronilde Fernández. Rodrigo led a column of men at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa in 1212. He commanded in the centre, among the forces of Alfonso VIII of Castile, either immediately aft of or flanking the main vanguard under Diego"
"Vega through the marriage of Leonor Lasso de la Vega, the last direct member of that line, and Admiral Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, the admiral of Castile. He inherited the title from his grandmother, Ana de Mendoza y Enríquez de Cabrera. Rodrigo actively fought in the Portuguese Restoration War as a member of Philip IV of Spain's staff. He also participated in putting down the Catalan Revolt and in the Siege of Lérida. He was later named the Spanish ambassador to Rome, Governor of Milán, and Viceroy of Sicily. He died in 1657 without leaving any heirs. As such, the"
"east of Japan. He left for Japan on 22 March 1611, and after another shipwreck would eventually return in 1613 on board the Japanese-built galleon ""San Juan Bautista"" with the first official Japanese embassy to the Americas and Europe, led by Hasekura Tsunenaga. Rodrigo de Vivero, 1st Count of Valle de Orizaba Rodrigo de Vivero y Aberrucia, 1st Count of Valle de Orizaba () (Tecamachalco?, New Spain, 1564–1636) was a Spanish noble who served as the 13th governor and captain-general of the Philippines from 1608 to 1609. He was the son of Rodrigo de Vivero y Velasco, a Spanish colonial"
"Rodrigo de Villandrando Rodrigo de Villandrando (died c. 1457) was a Spanish routier from Castile and mercenary military leader in Gascony during the final phase of the Hundred Years' War. He was famous for his pillaging and was consequently known as the Emperor of Pillagers (""empereur des brigands"") or L'Écorcheur (the slaughterer). Originally from Biscay, he was the son of Pedro de Villandrando and Agnes de Corral. He became count of Ribaldo and Valladolid. Around 1410 he arrived in France and was admitted into the company of Amaury de Séverac. He rose to become captain of the routiers, veritable mercenaries"
"""Hispania Illustrata"". In ""De Monarchia Orbis et de origine et differentiâ principatus imperialis et regalis"" (Rome, 1521), he asserts for the pope the sole right to punish kings. His bold reproofs of certain ecclesiastical dignitaries caused Matthias Flacius to put him down as a forerunner of Martin Luther, but quite unjustly, as Nicolás Antonio has shown in his ""Bibliotheca Hispanica Vetus"" (II, 397, 608, 614). Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo Rodrigo Sánchez de Arévalo (; Santa María la Real de Nieva, diocese of Segovia, 1404 – 4 October 1470) was a Spanish churchman, historian and political theorist. A learned Spanish bishop,"
"title of Duke of the Infantado passed on to his sister, the Duchess of Pastrana, Catalina Gómez de Sandoval y Mendoza which united the two houses and increased the power of the family. Rodrigo married in 1630 with María de Silva y Guzmán, the daughter of Ruy III Gómez de Silva y Mendoza de la Cerda, the Duque de Pastrana. The couple never conceived any children. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar Gómez de Sandoval y Mendoza, 7th Duke of the Infantado Rodrigo ""Díaz de Vivar"" Gómez de Sandoval y Mendoza (b. 4 April 1614 – d. 14 January 1657) was a"
"to Santo Domingo, but bad weather forced him to land in Cuba, where he died from his injuries. Later, his only son, Archbishop Rodrigo de Bastidas y Rodriguez de Romera, moved his remains to Santo Domingo where he is interred along with his wife and son at The Cathedral of Santa María la Menor in the Colonial Zone of Santo Domingo, the oldest cathedral in the Americas. Rodrigo de Bastidas Rodrigo de Bastidas (; Triana, Seville, Andalusia, c. 1465 – Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, 28 July 1527) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who mapped the northern coast of South"
"Rodrigo Gil de Borja y Fennolet Roderic Gil de Borja i Fennolet was a Valencian noble from Xàtiva, Kingdom of Valencia, with origins in the town of Borja, Zaragoza. He held the title of the Jurat de l'Estament Militar de Xàtiva in 1395, 1406 and 1407 respectively, a title that had been held by many previous generations of this branch of the Borja family based on Ventres street in Xàtiva. This same branch, of which Rodrigo Gil was the Head of House, would later go on to become the infamous Borgia family in Italy. The birth date of Rodrigo Gil"
"Rodrigo Martínez Rodrigo Martínez () (died July 1138) was a Leonese nobleman, landowner, courtier, military leader, governor, and diplomat, ""the most powerful lay figure in the region of the western Tierra de Campos,"" who ""emerges as far and away the most regular visitor to the court of Alfonso VII between 1127 and 1138."" He was a member of the Flagínez family, rose to the highest rank in the kingdom and met his end on the battlefield. He was the eldest son of Martín Flaínez and Sancha Fernández. Throughout his career he was closely associated with his brothers Pedro and Osorio"
"Rodrigo Rodrigo is a Spanish and Portuguese name derived from the Germanic name ""Roderick"" (Gothic ""*Hroþareiks"", via Latinized ""Rodericus""), given specifically in reference to either king Roderic (d. 712), the last Visigothic ruler or to Saint Roderick (d. 857), one of the Martyrs of Córdoba (feast day 13 March). The modern given name has the short forms forms ""Ruy, Rui"", and in Galician ""Roi"". The name is very frequently given in Portugal; it was the most popularly given masculine name in 2011–2012, and during 2013–2016 ranked between 4th and 2nd most popular. It is also moderately popular in Spain, ranking"
"to regain his honor. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar is called Mío Cid (meaning ""My Lord"") by the Moors. His current task is to collect the tributes from the Moorish territory owed to his king, Alfonso VI of León. Cid's enemy accuses him of taking some of these tributes and the king exiles him from León and Castile. Before he leaves, he places his wife, Doña Ximena, and his two daughters, Doña Elvira and Doña Sol, in the Monastery of Cardeña. The canto then gives accounts of raids in the Moorish territory in which Cid and his men get rich off"
"Galician magnate. Rodrigo recognised the accession of Alfonso VII at Zamora, with the other magnates of Galicia, after the new king had taken the capital city of León. On 18 July 1126 Alfonso VII granted land at a place called ""Seixon"" to Pedro Ovéquiz and his wife María Fernández through the intervention of Rodrigo. It is a good indicator of his influence at court. In the autumn of 1137, Rodrigo was one of only two Galician nobles to join the royal army then marching on Navarre. The other was Fernando Pérez de Traba, who had joined the army by early"
"in the history of New Spain was Bishop Vasco de Quiroga (1470–1565). He was famous for his personal crusade to aid the conquered peoples of Mexico. Rodrigo De Quiroga Lopez De Sober (1512) traveled to Chile in an expedition of conquest in the year 1540. He became one of the founders of the city of Santiago. He served the role of Mayor of Santiago in 1548, 1558, and 1560. He Founded the Convent of Merced as a burial site for his future descendants and families. Rodrigo held many titles throughout his later years and died on February 25, 1580. He"
"as Coimbra, Elvas, Estremoz, Lisbon, Torre de Moncorvo, Monção, Serpa, Setúbal, and Vila Verde. The progenitor of this surname Araújo is Rodrigo Anes, who was lord of the lands known as located in Southern Kingdom of Galicia in modern NW Spain close to the Miño/Minho river. This river marked the border between Kingdom of Galicia and Northern Portugal, which had been a part of the Kingdom of Galicia in the 12th century. Rodrigo Anes, better known as Rodrigo Anes de Araújo, was descended from members of the royal families of the kingdom of France and the kingdom of Burgundy via"