Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara (1390–1450), also known as Juan Rodríguez del Padrón, was a Galician writer and poet, considered the last poet of the Galician school.James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, ''A History of Spanish Literature'' (D. Appleton and Company, 1898), 97. Born in Padrón, he was born to a

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family. He may have served as a

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Juan II of Castile John II of Castile ( es, link=no, Juan; 6 March 1405 – 20 July 1454) was King of Castile, King of Kingdom of Castile, Castile and Kingdom of León, León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as ...

, and may have attended the Council of Florence in 1434 as secretary to the cardinal Juan de Cervantes, a respected jurist and a friend of

Pero Tafur Pedro Tafur (or Pero Tafur) (c. 1410 – c. 1484) was a traveller, historian and writer from Castile (modern day Spain). Born in Córdoba, to a branch of the noble house of Guzmán,He dedicated his manuscript to Don Fernando de Guzmán, Chief C ...

. He was exiled for reasons not completely known, but may have been connected with an illicit romance at court; Rodríguez's indiscreet revelations to a talkative friend apparently led to a romantic breach of some kind with a noble lady.James Fitzmaurice-Kelly, ''Chapters on Spanish Literature'' (A. Constable and Company, ltd., 1908), 74. James Fitzmaurice-Kelly writes that "the conjectures that make Rodríguez the lover of Juan II's wife,

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, or of

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's wife, Juana, are destroyed by chronology. None the less it is certain that the writer was concerned in some mysterious, dangerous love-affair which led to his exile, and some believe, to his profession as a

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friar.” He became a Franciscan at

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in 1441 and gave up many of his profitable and numerous

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. He returned to

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and entered into the Franciscan monastery of San Antonio de Herbón, situated in a village near Padrón. He died at San Antonio de Herbón. A probably apocryphal tale of Rodríguez's life, by an anonymous writer of the 16th century, states that the poet went to

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, became the lover of the French queen, and was killed near Calais after trying to escape to

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Works

His works include a sentimental, semi- chivalresque romance called ''Siervo libre de amor'' (1439), the moralistic treatise ''Cadira de Honor'' (1440), and another sentimental romance called ''Triunfo de las donas'' (1445), the latter of which includes 40 feminist arguments meant to counter the

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of the work known as the ''Corbacho'', by Alfonso Martinez de Toledo. Rodríguez's work presents arguments for the superiority of women to men. Some additional romances are attributed to him; these include ''Conde Arnaldos'' and ''Rosa florida''. Also attributed to him is the ''Bursario'', a partial translation of Ovid's ''

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''. Rodríguez is best known for his poems. He is represented in the ''

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'' by a single ''cántica''. Of the seventeen of his surviving songs, sixteen are erotically-themed, like those written by his countryman

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. One, however, the "Flama del divino Rayo", concerns his spiritual conversion.

Notable family members

*Gonzalo de la Cámara - a knight had his coat of arms displayed in Andalusian in the city of Baeza in 1227. King Ferdinand III of Castile had ordered by

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, ordered that the coat of arms of the knights who were with him in the battle, be displayed in the city, one of them belonging to Don Gonzalo de la Cámara. Book of Lorenzo Suárez de Mendoza, 4th conde de la Coruña and 5th Viceroy of the New Spain -October 20, 1581-Mexico *Gómez Ruiz de la Cámara - in 1393 was given the title Knight of the Chambers by King

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. The king married him to an English

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of Queen consort

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, daughter of

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. *Alfonso Ruiz de la Cámara - a Spanish nobleman, was knighted

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(Spanish: Caballero de Espuelas Doradas)''

15 of August,1487 by Ferdinand II of Aragón, king of Castile, Naples and Navarre. He was given a record of nobility, confirmation of Caballero de Espuelas Doradas, and a letter of privileges by the Queen

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on 23 April, 1506. * Gómez Fernández de la Cámara - King

John II of Castile John II of Castile ( es, link=no, Juan; 6 March 1405 – 20 July 1454) was King of Castile and León from 1406 to 1454. He succeeded his older sister, Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon, as Prince of Asturias in 1405. Regency John was the ...

gave Gómez Fernández de la Cámara the titles of Secretary and Royal Scribe and Royal Notary of the Court by

the 9 of March, 1453. *

Juan de la Cámara Juan de la Cámara (1525–1602) was a Spanish conquistador and an hidalgo. Born in Alcala de Henares, Spain, he arrived in New Spain (present day Mexico) in 1539 and joined the Spanish Conquest of Yucatán, becoming one of the main collabo ...

(1525-1602) - Spanish Conquistador and

was born in Alcala de Henares

. He arrived in New Spain current day

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from

in 1539, joining the

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in 1541, and was one of the founders of

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and Mérida, both in the

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References

Sources

*''Obras'' Ed. Antonio Paz y Meliá. Madrid, 1884. *''Obras'', ed. de César Hernández Alonso. Madrid: Ed. Nacional, 1982. *''Siervo libre de amor''; edición introducción y notas de Antonio Prieto. Madrid: Castalia, 1976. *Vicente Beltrán Pepió, "Los Gozos de amor de Juan Rodríguez del Padrón: edición crítica" en ''Studia in honoren Germán Orduna'', 2001.

External links

Edición el línea del Siervo libre de Amor

* ttp://www.los-poetas.com/k/padron.htm Portal consagrado a Juan Rodríguez del Padrón {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodriguez De La Camara, Juan 1390 births 1450 deaths People from the Province of A Coruña Galician poets Spanish Franciscans 15th-century Spanish writers 15th-century Spanish poets

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