Villalobos

Who he is

Name

Rodrigo Pérez de Villalobos

Title

Lord and royal tenant of Villalobos (tenant in 1195)

Since

Attested as tenant 1195

Born

Not pinned

Family

Son of Pedro Arias de Limia and Constanza Osorio, daughter of Count Osorio Martínez (killed at Lobregal, 1 February 1160, by Fernando Rodríguez de Castro, who had married and repudiated Constanza). The Osorio descend from the Flaínez counts of the Leonese plain (general genealogies, not checked here). Wife Teresa Froilaz, very probably daughter of Count Froila Ramírez. Kin: his uncle Gonzalo Osorio (tenant of Villalobos 1170), who with Constanza is credited with the fuero of Villalobos; Aldonza Osorio, builder of San Juan del Mercado at Benavente. The lordship later passed to his cousin Fernando González de Villalobos.

Confidence

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Del Amo Lobo (2017) on the Villalobos; the Flaínez descent of the Osorio from general genealogies.

Overlord

Alfonso IX

What it holds

• Villalobos, lordship and royal tenancy (1195)
• Family lands in the Tierra de Campos and the Cea valley (extent in 1200 not pinned)
• Property at Aguilar de Campoo in Castile (sold 1212)

How it was acquired

Inheritance from the Osorio through his mother; royal tenancy.

Allies and rivals

Kin of the Froilaz and the Limia; blood feud in the past with the Castros (Lobregal, 1160).

How things stand that morning

Holds Villalobos; no royal office pinned.

Wealth

Tierra de Campos grain lands; patronage of churches at Villalobos.

Military

Household and the men of Villalobos; no figures.

Threats

• The Castilian border a few leagues east
• The surety castles in Castilian hands around him (Villafrechós, Bolaños, Valderas)

What the year holds

What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.

1. During 1200Makes a donation to the abbey of Sahagún.Depends on: Nothing in play Stopped by: Nothing likely

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: One local study; the Flaínez descent and the identification of his wife are not checked.

On the map: Only Villalobos is drawn; his Cea lands are pinned only for 1214.

Primary sources for León

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Annals of Toledo and other short Iberian annals (12th and 13th centuries; Anales Toledanos I to 1219). Florez's volume 23 gathers the short annals of the peninsula. Read online
• Chronicle of the World (Lucas of Tuy), Lucas de Tuy (1236, for Queen Berenguela). The Leonese counterpart to Rodrigo, written at San Isidoro for Berenguela. Read online
• Historical Monuments of Portugal: Writers (Annals of King Afonso, Chronicon Conimbricense, Chronica Gothorum and others) (12th to 15th centuries). The Portuguese annals in one volume. Read online
• Latin Chronicle of the Kings of Castile, Anonymous, probably Juan of Osma, chancellor of Castile (about 1223 to 1239). The chancellor's chronicle of Alfonso VIII's reign, detailed from the 1190s. Read online
• The Garden of Pages: a History of the Kings of the Maghreb and of the City of Fez, Ibn Abi Zar al-Fasi (completed in 1326 at Fez, for the Marinid sultan Abu Said Uthman). The Almohad chapters give a brisk dated narrative of al-Mansur's death and burial, al-Nasir's accession and the Banu Ghaniya troubles, with the kind of detail (coinage, public works at Fez and Rabat, prices, plagues) that a Fez compiler cared about, and the annals of Fez supply the city's governors and markets. Read online
• The Wondrous Account of the History of al-Andalus and the Maghreb, Ibn Idhari al-Marrakushi (about 1312, at Marrakesh). The Almohad section is the fullest year-by-year narrative of the caliphate around 1200: the last campaigns and the death of Abu Yusuf Yaqub al-Mansur in January 1199, the accession of his son Muhammad al-Nasir, the renewed war of the Banu Ghaniya in Ifriqiya under Yahya ibn Ishaq and his ally Qaraqush, the Almohad losses of Mahdia and Tunis a few years later, and al-Nasir's reconquest of Ifriqiya in 1205 to 1206 followed by the appointment of Abd al-Wahid ibn Abi Hafs as governor. Read online
• History of the Affairs of Spain, Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada (completed 1243). The archbishop's history of the peninsula, written forty years on by a Navarrese who served Castile. Read online
• The Gift of the Imamate, Ibn Sahib al-Sala (Abd al-Malik ibn Muhammad al-Baji) (late twelfth century; the surviving part covers 1159 to 1173). The only Almohad court chronicle written from inside the administration, by a chancery secretary who travelled with the caliphs Abd al-Mu'min and Abu Yaqub Yusuf.

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