Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón

Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón (died 1193) was a magnate and ricohombre from Palencia who played a key role in the Medieval history of the Iberian Peninsula.

[a] Owner of vast holdings and estates, Rodrigo and his relatives formed one of the most powerful clans in Tierra de Campos since the time of the Banu Gómez.

In 1179 King Alfonso VIII granted him Borox and allowed him to build public baths and ovens in Toledo as well as a watermill at the Tagus River.

Jerónimo Gudiel was the first one to write a complete treatise on this family, commissioned by the first Duke of Osuna, Pedro Téllez-Girón, a work which was published in 1577.

Luis de Salazar y Castro in his work on the Laras, also mistakenly attributed the origins of this family to Count Gonzalo Peláez, a powerful magnate from Asturias.

[2] Eight children were born of this marriage, as attested by a donation they made, after their father had died, in 1194 to the Order of Calatrava of their inheritance in Dueñas Castle.