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Birth:          ABT  810 
Death:          4 Oct  873 

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d 4/5 Oct 873
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Rodrigo (died 873) was the first count of Castile, governing from about 862 to his 
death.[a] Some Iberian Muslim writers refer to a brother or brother-in-law of Ordoño I, 
while others assign the same role to a Ruderick without stating a relationship, and the 
references have been interpreted as referring to the same man. This has been used by 
authors such as Fernández de Béthencourt, writing in 1897, to suggest that count 
Rodrigo was a son of Ramiro I of Asturias and his supposed second wife, 'Urraca 
Paterna' (actually just Paterna, Urraca being the wife of a later prince Ramiro) and 
half-brother of Ordoño, but Barrau-Dihago dismissed this interpretation for want of 
evidence.

Also, it would be highly unlikely that Rodrigo was the son of Ramiro and Paterna who 
did not marry until around 842 and would be repopulating Amaya in 860, although due 
to the missions entrusted to him, it is probable that he was close to the royal house.[1]


 


 Peña Amaya, ancient capital of the duchy of Cantábria.
He was created governor of the eastern march (marca oriental) of the realm, the 
territory called Al-Qila by the Arabs, which later became the county of Castile, by 
Ordoño, possibly upon the latter's assumption of the crown. He took part in Ordoño's 
Repoblación, repopulating Amaya in 860.[2] Amaya was known as the "patrician city" 
because at one time it had been the capital of eight of the provinces of the Visigothic 
Kingdom of Toledo which had been conquered in 711-712 by Tariq ibn Ziyad: In era 
DCCCLCLVIII populavit Rudericus comes Amaya et fregit Talamanca and built a wall 
with towers around the city.[2] He was at the side of the king in many battles of the 
Reconquista, including the siege and sack of Albelda in 859.

In 863, the 'brother of Ordoño' fought Muslim troops, and in 865 Rodrigo was defeated 
magnificently at Bureba by the troops of the emir of Córdoba, resulting in the sacking 
of his castles and those of other noblemen in Castile, which brought to a temporary 
halt the process of reconquest and repopulation of the area. Upon King Ordoño's 
death in May 866, he was succeeded by his son Alfonso III of Asturias who at that 
time was about 18 years old. Alfonso was overthrown and took refuge in Castile. 
Count Rodrigo entered the Kingdom of Asturias with his troops to support the young 
monarch, and remained at his side for some time.[3]

Between 867 and 868, he assisted in the suppression of the Alavés rebellion of the 
Basque magnate Eglyón. For this service he was made count of Álava. He governed 
that county until 870, when Vela Jiménez is recorded as count. He last appears in a 
document dated 18 April 873, and is said to have died 5 November of the same year, 
being succeeded by his son Diego Rodríguez.

His role as founding count of Castile has led to an amplification of his actual 
activities, with forged charters pushing his rule in the county a decade earlier than it 
can reliably be traced, and this process has also led to the duplication of himself and 
his son, in the form of an invention of earlier counts Rodrigo (supposed brother of 
Aurelius and Vermudo I) and Diego.[4]

Parents
____ Ramiro I (ABT  790 - 1 Feb  850)
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Siblings
____ Rodrigo (ABT  810 - 4 Oct  873)
____ Ordono I (ABT  821 - 27 May  866)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m.  

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
RODRIGUEZ PORCELOS Diego (ABT  830 -  885)
----- ----- (ABT  840 - )

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