Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón

Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón (died 1193) was a magnate and ricohombre from Palencia who played a key role in the Medieval history of the Iberian Peninsula. He was the first one of his lineage to add Girón to his patronymic. Owner of vast holdings and estates, Rodrigo and his relatives formed one of the most powerful clans in Tierra de Campos since the time of the Banu Gómez.

Mayordomo mayor of King Alfonso VIII of Castile between 1173 and 1193, except for short intervals, he and his descendants were part of one of the most powerful families in the medieval Kingdoms of Castile and León and played a relevant role in the definitive unification of the crowns of both kingdoms. He participated in several major battles during the Reconquista in southern Spain.

Rodrigo governed several feudal estates, including Gatón de Campos, Monzón, Torremormojón, Montealegre, half of Carrión and Liébana, all of which, except the last one, were situated in Tierra de Campos. For his loyalty and services to the crown, he was generously rewarded. In 1179 King Alfonso VIII granted him Borox and allowed him to build public baths and ovens in Toledo as well as a watermill at the Tagus River.

In 1189 he was governing Higares Castle in Mocejón and the surrounding lands which he gave that year to the bishop and Cathedral of Toledo. In 1191, Rodrigo and his second wife, Jimena, donated "for their souls" half of the income and properties at Dueñas Castle in the province of Ciudad Real, to the Order of Calatrava, leaving the other half for the offspring of his first marriage. In this donation, the couple also included half of Borox, Mocejón, plus the ovens and watermill in Toledo.

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