Rodrigo de Cerrato or Cerratense, Rodrigo Manuel Cerratense or Cerrato or El Cerratense (* Caleruega, before 1259 - † after 1276), historian and Dominican hagiographer of the second half of the thirteenth century. Biography
Very little is known about him. He was born somewhere in the Cerrato valleys, not far from Caleruega, in the confines of the present provinces of Palencia, Valladolid and Burgos, and was a Dominican friar in the monastery of Santa Cruz de Segovia, one of the oldest of the Order . Perhaps the appellation "cerratense" comes from that wrote in the Monastery of San Pelayo de Cerrato. In 1272 he was in the Dominican monastery of Caleruega with the prior of Madrid, Fray Gil, and some more friars who signed as witnesses in a deed; there he was able to collect oral testimonies to extend his life in Santo Domingo.
He lived in the reign of Alfonso X the Wise and wrote around 1276 a Vitas sanctorum, an important saint for including numerous lives of Spanish saints, including the seven Apostolic Men, but who adapts their sources to their moralistic intentions as a preacher. Of this work three manuscripts, versions more or less summarized or extended, are conserved in the British Museum, in the University of Madrid and in the Archive of the Cathedral of Segovia; the last writing corresponds to the Segovian manuscript. The book ends with a very brief Chronicle that begins at the birth of Christ and ends at the death of Fernando III the Saint; the Chronicle corrects some dates of the Anales Toledanos. The first to Rodrigo de Cerrato dates from 1259 and at least it lived until 1276, probable date of elaboration of the Cronicon according to Fidel Fita; was contemporary of San Pedro Mártir. Works
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