Rodrigo Muñoz (Asturian Count)
Rodrigo Muñoz (''floruit'' 1084–1116), son of Count Munio González and Mayor Muñoz, was a Castilian magnate in the kingdoms of León and Castile. His tenancies were mostly in Cantabria, in the northern Castilian lands bordering the Basque country. Rodrigo is first mentioned in June 1085, when he and his sister Jimena made a pious donation to Santa María del Puerto.Barton, 296. It is thought that this sister is the Jimena Muñoz who was mistress to Alfonso VI. Other siblings were Urraca Muñoz, wife of count Gómez González, and Enderquina Muñoz, wife of count Fernando Díaz. Cf. Canal Sánchez-Pagín, 11–40; Salazar y Acha, 299–336. In July 1090 he and his brother Gutierre judged a lawsuit between the church and a certain Martín Cídez. He married a woman named Teresa sometime before March 1103, when they completed an exchange of properties (their land at Oreña for an estate in the Toranzo valley) with the monastery of Santillana del Mar. As early as 1104 he w ...
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