Rodrigo Jiménez (or Ximénez) de Rada (c. 1170 – 10 June 1247)[n. 1] was a Roman Catholic bishop and historian, who held an important religious and political role in the Kingdom of Castile during the reigns of Alfonso VIII and Ferdinand III, a period in which the Castilian monarchy consolidated its political hegemony over the rest of polities in the Iberian Peninsula.[2] He was at the helm of the Archdiocese of Toledo from 1208 to 1247. He authored De rebus Hispaniae, a history of the Iberian Peninsula.
Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada
Fuero Viejo extendido de Alcalá de Henares (Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada, 1235).
He played a key role in the war against the Almohads and at the battle of Las Navas de Tolosa (1212). He was the moral leader of that war, which was considered in Europe as a 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 cathedral and placed the first stone in 1226 (it was not completed until 1493), restored the dioceses of Baeza and Córdoba after the Christian conquest of those cities and defended the primacy of his see in Spain against the pretensions of Braga and Santiago.
He promoted the cultural life of Toledo, a city that was the cultural entrepôt of Christian and Muslim civilizations during the Middle Ages. He ordered the translation of the Koran to Latin and composed a wide historiographic work. His De rebus Hispaniae, a general history of Spain, was very soon translated into Spanish and was very influential on the General History of Alfonso X.
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
^Also mentioned as 'Archbishop Don Roderic of Toledo',[1]
References
^History of slave trade, Volume I p. 22 "...as wrote the Archbishop Don Roderic of Toledo"
^Ruiz Souza, Juan Carlos (2021). "Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada y la valoración del patrimonio de al-Andalus como algo propio. Arabización e islamización". Anuario de Estudios Medievales. 51 (1). doi:10.3989/aem.2021.51.1.09. ISSN 0066-5061.
^Carvajal González, Helena (2013). "El Breviarium Historiae Catholicae de Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada". Anales de Historia del Arte. Madrid: Ediciones Complutense. 23: 22. doi:10.5209/rev_ANHA.2013.v23.43600. 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
January 31, 2023
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