Rabinatus
Rabinatus (or Rabinato) was the bishop of Mondoñedo from 1172[1] or 1174 until 1199.[2] He was a chancery official during the reign of Alfonso VII and perhaps under Ferdinand II as well.[1] He is recorded as a deacon in a document he drew up for Alfonso on 6 November 1156.[2] He was an archdeacon in the diocese of Mondoñedo before his elevation as bishop. He was bishop when the see was moved from Villamayor de Brea to Ribadeo in 1182.[1] In 1190, he made a donation to support the struggling monastery of Xuvia.[3] In 1191, he attended the wedding of Alfonso IX and Theresa of Portugal. He died on 10 July 1199.[2]
The name Rabinatus (or Rapinatus) is well attested in Galicia and among the Mozarabs.[4][5] Its meaning as a name is unclear.[5] It may have a religious meaning of 'one caught up (in the spirit)' ("que foi arrebatado pola fe").[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Richard A. Fletcher, The Episcopate in the Kingdom of León in the Twelfth Century (Oxford University Press, 1978), pp. 61, 64.
- ^ a b c Enrique Cal Pardo, Episcopologio Mindoniense (Editorial CSIC, 2003), pp. 107–111.
- ^ Francesco Renzi, "Cluny in Medieval Galicia: The “damnatio memoriae” and the Survival of the Monastery of San Martín de Xuvia (10th–13th Centuries)", Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae 21 (2016): 249–269.
- ^ a b Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo, Antroponimia medieval galega (ss. VIII–XII) (Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999), p. 387.
- ^ a b Lidia Becker, Hispano-romanisches Namenbuch (Max Niemeyer Verlag, 2009), p. 902.