Rodrigo González de Lara

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Rodrigo González de Lara († after March 24, 1144 in Jerusalem ) was a Castilian nobleman from the house of Lara and lord of Lara and Liébana .

Life

He was the second son of Gonzalo Núñez de Lara († after 1105) and his wife Goto. Rodrigo's older brother Pedro González de Lara had risen to the influential favorite of Queen Urraca of León-Castile (1109–1126) around 1117 . In order to deepen the alliance between the house of Lara and the queen, Rodrigo was married to her sister Sancha around 1120. Protected by the queen, he was endowed with several lords of the castle (tenente) in the following years , such as Aguilar de Campoo , Asturias de Santillana , Castilla la Vieja , Segovia , Trasmiera and others. When King Alfonso VII came to power in 1126, the Lara brothers immediately came into opposition to him. After Pedro was captured after a failed siege of Palencia , Rodrigo had continued the revolt from Asturias de Santillana. When the king had brought up an army in the late summer of 1130, Rodrigo had arranged a peace talks with him on the Pisuerga , to which each party was to appear with only six knights. During the conversation, after verbal provocations on the part of Rodrigos, there had been fights between him and the king. After both had fallen from their horses, the knights Rodrigos fled, who was then captured. At first all lands and titles were withdrawn from him, but only shortly afterwards he had given his submission to the king, probably under the impression of the death of his brother. He was reinstated in the royal service and even appointed governor of Toledo . In 1132 Rodrigo had led a campaign against the governor of the Almoravids of Seville , who he defeated and killed in a great battle, at the head of a large army consisting of forces from Castile and Extremadura .

After Rodrigo's first wife died in 1125, he married Estefanía von Urgell († after 1143), widow of Fernando García de Castro (⚔ 1134), lord of Hita and Uceda, and daughter of Count Ermengol V of Urgell . On April 1, 1137 Rodrigo is mentioned for the last time in a royal document, but in October of the same year he had again quarreled with the king, whereupon he had decided to go into exile. He had moved to Outremer in the Kingdom of Jerusalem , where he built the castle "Toron des Chevaliers" (today Latrun ) to secure the road from Jaffa to Jerusalem , which he handed over to the Knights Templar . At an unknown point in time he had returned to Spain and was staying at the courts of Count Raimund Berengar IV of Barcelona , King García IV of Navarre and the Moorish prince of Valencia . When he finally fell ill with leprosy , he made a second pilgrimage to Jerusalem , where he died at an unknown date. This must have been after March 24th, 1144, because in the will of his brother-in-law-son-in-law, Count Ermengol VI. von Urgell , was appointed to one of the executors, which is also his last documentary mention.

From his first marriage to Infanta Sancha († 1125), daughter of King Alfonso VI. from León-Castile , Rodrigo had three children, but only two of them reached adulthood:

  • Pedro Rodríguez de Lara († 1180);
  • Elvira Rodríguez de Lara († 1159) ⚭ Count Ermengol VI. by Urgell .

His second marriage to Estefanía von Urgell was childless.

literature

  • Bernard F. Reilly: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under Queen Urraca 1109-1126. Princeton University Press, 1982 ( online ).
  • Bernard F. Reilly: The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VII, 1126-1157. University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris, ed. by Glenn Edward Lipskey in: The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor. (1972), Book I, §22, pp. 64-65.
  2. ↑ Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris, ed. by Glenn Edward Lipskey in: The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor. (1972), Book I, §23, p. 65.
  3. ↑ Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris, ed. by Glenn Edward Lipskey in: The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor. (1972), Book II, §119-121, pp. 115-116.
  4. ↑ Documentos de la Iglesia Colegial de Santa María la Mayor de Valladolid. Volume 1, ed. by Manuel Mañueco Villalobos, José Zurita Nieto (1917), No. 27, p. 141.
  5. ↑ Catálogo del archivo del monasterio de San Pedro de las Dueñas , ed. by José María Fernández Catón (1977), No. 13. Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris, ed. by Glenn Edward Lipskey in: The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor. (1972), Book I, §47, p. 77.
  6. ↑ Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris, ed. by Glenn Edward Lipskey in: The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor. (1972), Book I, §48, p. 78.
  7. ↑ Chronica Adefonsi imperatoris, ed. by Glenn Edward Lipskey in: The Chronicle of Alfonso the Emperor. (1972), Book I, §48, p. 78.
  8. ↑ Diplomatari de l'Arxiu Diocesà de Solsona (1101-1200). Volume 1, ed. by Antoni Bach in: Diplomataris. Fundació Noguera 26. (2002), No. 303, pp. 375-377 ( online ; PDF; 2.3 MB).

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personal data
SURNAME Rodrigo González de Lara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Castilian nobleman
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century
DATE OF DEATH after March 24, 1144
Place of death Jerusalem