Rodrigo (name)

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Rodrigo is the Spanish and Portuguese variant of the male given name Roderich .

The patronymic is derived from this first name , from which the widespread surnames Rodríguez (Spanish) and Rodrigues (Portuguese) arose.

A very similar Italian variant of the first name is Rodrico .

A medieval short form of the name is Ruy , in the Portuguese-speaking area also in the spelling Rui . In Galician there is the variant Roi .

The best- known bearer of the name is the Visigoth king Roderich ( Rodrigo ), the legendary "last Gothic king" before the Islamic conquest of the Iberian Peninsula (7th / 8th century). The Spanish national hero Rodrigo Díaz , known as El Cid (11th century), is also well known.

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