Juan Rodríguez de la Cámara

[3] 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.

He returned to Spain and entered into the Franciscan monastery of San Antonio de Herbón, situated in a village near Padrón.

[5] A probably apocryphal tale of Rodríguez's life, by an anonymous writer of the 16th century, states that the poet went to France, became the lover of the French queen, and was killed near Calais after trying to escape to England.

[4] "Muy triste será mi vida / los días que non vos viere; / y mi persona vencida / del dolor de la partida, / morirá quando muriere."

[1] Of the seventeen of his surviving songs, sixteen are erotically-themed, like those written by his countryman Macías.