Ciudad Rodrigo
Ciudad Rodrigo () is a small cathedral city in the province of Salamanca, in western Spain, with a population in 2016 of 12,896. It is also the seat of a judicial district.
The site of Ciudad Rodrigo, perched atop a rocky rise on the right bank ...
in the ecclesiastical
province of Valladolid
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Foundation
The origins of the diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo have been studied in depth in two papers by
Fidel Fita
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Biography
Born to a newly bourgeois family, at the age of te ...
. The exact date when the town was conquered is unknown, but it was purchased by the citizens of
Salamanca
Salamanca () is a city in western Spain and is the capital of the Province of Salamanca in the autonomous community of Castile and León. The city lies on several rolling hills by the Tormes River. Its Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritag ...
about 1135. They controlled it until 1161, when it was annexed to the royal domain by king Ferdinand II, who built a castle for the defence of the frontier and founded the diocese as well as two monasteries. The move provoked hostility: the Salamancans revolted in 1162 and Portugal, threatened by a new royal fortress so near its border, invaded in 1163.
Richard A. Fletcher
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''The Episcopate in the Kingdom of León in the Twelfth Century'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1978), 35–36.
When Ferdinand II founded the diocese in 1161, he claimed only to be re-establishing the ancient diocese of ''Caliabria'', the location of which was in fact unknown. On 13 February Ferdinand issued a charter (called the ''fuero eclesiástico'') for the new diocese, in which he gave the metropolitan
Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela
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Pedro de Ponte Pedro de Ponte (''floruit'' 1163–90), possibly a Galician, was the royal chancellor of the Kingdom of León from 1170 to 1172 and the second bishop of the newly founded see of Ciudad Rodrigo from 1174 until his death. His predecessor, Bishop Dom ...
is well known. Martín (1190–1211) and Lombardo (1214–27) are known only from the witness lists of royal charters and from Martín's stint as a
papal judge-delegate
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.Fletcher, ''Episcopate'', 36–37. He notes that Lombardo may have been the archdeacon of Medina and Alba in the diocese of Salamanca before becoming bishop.
The
Almohads
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attacked the city (''Alsibdat'' in Arabic sources) in 1174, the same year that a dispute over the boundary between the diocese of Ciudad Rodrigo and that of Salamanca was settled. The diocese was bounded to the north and east by the rivers
Huebra
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Duero
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. Its southern frontier was desolate and extended to the
diocese of Coria
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History
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. To its west lay Portugal.
Leadership
*Domingo (1161×68 – 1172×73)
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Pedro de Ponte Pedro de Ponte (''floruit'' 1163–90), possibly a Galician, was the royal chancellor of the Kingdom of León from 1170 to 1172 and the second bishop of the newly founded see of Ciudad Rodrigo from 1174 until his death. His predecessor, Bishop Dom ...
(1174–1189)
*Martín (1190–1211)
*Lombardo (1214–1227)
*Miguel (1227–1245)
*Pedro II (1245–1251)
*Leonardo (1252–1259)
*Domingo Martín (1263–1274)
*Pedro III (1274–1284)
*Antonio (1285–1300)
*Alfonso (1300–1314)
*Bernardo (?–1324)
*Juan I (1324–?)
*Juan II (?–1339)
*Alfonso III (1344–1371)
*Rodrigo (1384–1391)
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André Dias de Escobar
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Bishop of Oviedo
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Francisco Bobadilla
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Francisco Ruiz (bishop)
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Bishop of Ávila
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Bishop of Osma
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Pedro Fernández Manrique
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Pedro Pacheco de Villena
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Bishop of Pamplona
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Francisco de Navarra y Hualde
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Bishop of Badajoz
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Bishop of Plasencia
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Diego de Covarubias y Leyva
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Bishop of Badajoz
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* Pedro Vélez Guevara (9 Jan 1584 – 1585 Died)
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Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas
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(8 Jan 1586 – 16 Mar 1588 Appointed,
Bishop of Pamplona
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* Antonio Idiáquez Manrique (26 May 1610 – 4 Feb 1613 Appointed,
Bishop of Segovia
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* Jerónimo Ruiz Camargo (12 Aug 1613 – 23 May 1622 Appointed,
Bishop of Coria
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Agustín Antolínez
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Juan de la Torre Ayala
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Francisco Diego Alarcón y Covarrubias
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Juan Pérez Delgado
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(3 Dec 1646 – 11 Oct 1655 Confirmed,
Bishop of Salamanca
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(31 Jan 1656 – 6 May 1658 Appointed,
Bishop of Pamplona
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* Juan de Andaya y Sotomayor (10 Jan 1678 – 13 Nov 1678 Died)
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Sebastián Catalán
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(17 Jul 1679 – Sep 1687 Died)
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José González Blázquez
José González Blázquez, O. de M. (1630–1698) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Plasencia (1695–1698) ''(in Latin)'' and Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo (1688–1695). ''(in Latin)''
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Bishop of Plasencia
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Francisco Manuel de Zúñiga Sotomayor y Mendoza
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*José Díez Santos de San Pedro (28 May 1714 – 24 Oct 1719 Died)
*Gregorio Tellez,
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(3 Feb 1721 – 2 Mar 1738 Retired)
*Clemente Comenge Avio (3 Mar 1738 – 12 Dec 1747 Died)
*Pedro Gómez de la Torre (2 Dec 1748 – 24 May 1756 Appointed,
Bishop of Plasencia
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*José Francisco Biguezal (24 May 1756 – 2 Dec 1762 Died)
*Cayetano Antonio Cuadrillero Mota (18 Jul 1763 – 15 Dec 1777 Appointed, Bishop of León)
*Agustín de Alvarado y Castillo (14 Dec 1778 – 21 Jul 1781 Died)
*Ildefonso Molina y Santaella (17 Feb 1783 – 4 Dec 1784 Died)
*Benito de Uría y Valdés,
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Plasencia
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