Editing Rodrigo (section)

==History==
[[File:Estatua de El Cid cropped.jpg|thumb|Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, also known as '''El Cid''']]
The form ''Rodrigo'' becomes current in the later medieval period. It is recorded in the ''[[Cantar de Mio Cid]]'', written c. 1200, as the name of 
[[Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar]] (c. 1043–1099, known as   ''[[El Cid]] Campeador''),<ref>v. 467 (''[[:es:wikisource:Cantar del Mío Cid/Destierro del Cid17|Destierro del Cid]]''): ''Mio Çid don Rodrigo''</ref>  and [[:es:Rodrigo|Don Rodrigo]] king of the Visigoths (688-711), of the Spanish Visigothic Kingdom.
*[[Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada]] (c. 1170  – 1247) was a Navarrese-born Castilian bishop and historian.
*Rodrigo Lanzol Borja (1431–1503) was the birth name of [[Pope Alexander VI]] (r. 1492&ndash;1503).
*[[Rodrigo de Triana]] was the name of the Spanish sailor to have first sighted the [[New World]] (i.e., the island of [[Guanahani]]) on [[Columbus' first voyage]] (on 12 October 1492).
*[[Rodrigo López (physician)|Rodrigo López]] (c. 1525–1594) was a physician to [[Elizabeth I|Queen Elizabeth]].
*[[Rodrigo de la Guitarra]] was a medieval Spanish musician