page_title: Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán
section_title: Marriage and issue
hierarchical_section_title: Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán / Marriage and issue
caption_attribution_description: Español: Colegiata de San Cosme y San Damián de Covarrubias (Burgos, España). Es un edificio tardogótico, cuyas obras empezaron en 1474 por encargo del abad Diego Fernández, capellán del rey Enrique IV. De elegantes proporciones y planta de cruz latina, con tres naves y crucero, acoge entre sus muros los panteones de numerosas familias ilustres de la villa. En la imagen, parte del atrio de entrada y torre.
context_page_description: Rodrigo Muñoz de Guzmán or Rodrigo Núñez de Guzmán, considered the common ancestor of the noble house of Guzmán, was a Castilian magnate and tenente of Roa and of the village of Guzmán in Burgos, from which this lineage took its name.
context_section_description: He married before 1150 Mayor Díaz, daughter of Diego Sánchez, who died in the Battle of Uclés, and of Enderquina Álvarez, daughter of Álvaro Díaz de Oca and his wife Teresa Ordóñez. At least nine children were born of this marriage:
  Álvaro Rodríguez de Guzmán (died in 1187), governed, as tenant-in-chief,  Mansilla, a toponymic which he adopted as his cognomen  and as such he appears confirming several charters as Álvaro Rodríguez de Mansilla. He also governed La Pernía and Liébana.  Álvaro married Sancha Rodríguez de Castro, daughter of Rodrigo Fernández de Castro, the Bald and Eylo Álvarez with whom he had Fernando and Eylo Álvarez, as well as Elvira and Toda Álvarez de Guzmán, the latter married to Álvaro Rodríguez Girón, son of Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón.
  Fernando Rodríguez de Guzmán, who, according to genealogist Luis de Salazar y Castro, was the husband of Juana de Aza and father of Saint Dominic, although there is no documentary proof whatsoever sustaining this filiation.
  Nuño or Munio Rodríguez de Guzmán, who probably died young, shortly after August 1151 when he last appears confirming a donation made by King Sancho III of Castile.
  Pedro Rodríguez de Guzmán (died on 18 July 1195 at the Battle of Alarcos). Appointed mayordomo mayor of King Alfonso VIII in April 1194.  Around May 1174 he married Mahalda, as confirmed in the donation made by King Alfonso VIII in casamento (as a wedding gift). The couple had several children, including Nuño Pérez de Guzmán who was the head of the house of Guzmán, and Guillén Pérez de Guzmán, the father of Mayor Guillén de Guzmán, mistress of King Alfonso X of Castile, the parents of Beatrice of Castile, queen consort of Portugal due to her marriage to King Afonso.
  Rodrigo Rodríguez de Guzmán, mentioned by his brother Álvaro in 1167.
  Urraca Rodríguez de Guzmán (died after 1189), who married Pedro Rodríguez de Castro. Both appear together in 1189 when they donated Villasila and Villamelendro to the Order of Santiago, confirming as ego Petrus Roderici de Castro cum uxore mea Urraca Roderici (I, Pedro Rodríguez de Castro with my wife Urraca Rodríguez)
  Sancha Rodríguez de Guzmán, mentioned by her brother Álvaro in 1167.
  María de Guzmán, was the first wife of Rodrigo Gutiérrez Girón.
  Teresa Rodríguez de Guzmán, also mentioned by her brother Álvaro in 1167.
caption: Atrium and tower of the Colegiata de San Cosme y San Damián de Covarrubias
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