Rodrigo De Cerrato

Rodrigo de Cerrato or Rodrigo Cerratense, Rodrigo Manuel Cerratense or de Cerrato or El Cerratense (*

Calzada de Calatrava Calzada de Calatrava is a municipality of Spain located in the province of Ciudad Real, autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha. It belongs to the Campo de Calatrava traditional ''comarca''. It has a population of 4,568. History Between t ...

Ciudad Real Ciudad Real (, ; en, "Royal City") is a municipality of Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile–La Mancha, capital of the province of Ciudad Real. It is the 5th most populated municipality in the region. History It was founde ...

, before 1259 – after 1276) was a Castilian historian and

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of the second half of the 13th century. Not much is known of his life. He was born in Calzada de Calatrava and was a Dominican friar in the convent of

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, one of the oldest Dominican foundations. His surname ''Cerratense'' may derive from the fact that he wrote his works in the monastery of San Pelayo de Cerrato. He lived during the reign of

Alfonso X Alfonso X (also known as the Wise, es, el Sabio; 23 November 1221 – 4 April 1284) was King of Castile, León and Galicia from 30 May 1252 until his death in 1284. During the election of 1257, a dissident faction chose him to be king of Ger ...

and wrote around 1276 several ''Vitas sanctorum'', an important hagiography that concerns various Spanish

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, including the

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. This version conserves various summaries or expansions of the biographies of the saints. The book ends with a very short ''Chronicon'' (''Crónicon''), or chronicle, which runs from the birth of

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to the death of

Ferdinand III of Castile Ferdinand III ( es, Fernando, link=no; 1199/120130 May 1252), called the Saint (''el Santo''), was King of Castile from 1217 and King of León from 1230 as well as King of Galicia from 1231. He was the son of Alfonso IX of León and Berenguel ...

. The ''Crónicon'' corrects some dates found in the ''Anales toledanos'', or Toledan annals. The first reference to Rodrigo de Cerrato dates from 1259 and he must have lived until 1276, which is based on an interpretation of ''Crónicon'' by

Fidel Fita Fidel Fita Colomé or, in Catalan, Fidel Fita i Colomer (31 December 1835, Arenys de Mar - 13 January 1918, Madrid) was a Spanish- Catalonian archaeologist, philologist, and historian. Biography Born to a newly bourgeois family, at the age of ten ...

. {{authority control Cerrato, Rodrgio de Cerrato, Rodrgio de 13th-century Castilians