Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada

1170 - 1247

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

genre: chronicle

country of citizenship: Crown of Castile

languages spoken, written or signed: Latin, Old Spanish, Basque

educated at: University of Bologna, University of Paris

occupation: Catholic priest, historian, warrior, politician, erudite person, writer

position held: Roman Catholic Archbishop of Toledo, Bishop of Osma

Rodrigo Jiménez (or Ximénez) de Rada (c. 1170 – 10 June 1247) 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. 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)