Gutierre Rodríguez de Castro

Gutierre Rodríguez de Castro

Born	1140s
Died	c. 1195
Noble family	House of Castro
Father	Rodrigo Fernández de Castro
Mother	Elo Álvarez

Gutierre Rodríguez de Castro also known as Gutierre Ruiz de Castro and nicknamed el Escalabrado (died c. 1195) was a Castilian nobleman, member of the House of Castro as the son of Rodrigo Fernández de Castro and his wife Elo Álvarez, daughter of Álvar Fáñez and his wife Mayor Pérez, daughter of Count Pedro Ansúrez.

King Alfonso VII of León had appointed Gutierre's paternal uncle, Gutierre Fernández de Castro, guardian and tutor of his son, Infante Sancho, the future King Sancho III of Castile. It was during the crisis of the regency, exercised by Manrique Pérez de Lara, that Gutierre, with his brothers, Fernando, Pedro and Álvaro abandoned Castile due to their differences with the members of the House of Lara and sought refuge in the Kingdom of León to serve King Ferdinand II, where the four brothers were appointed to relevant posts. Gutierre appears between 1180 and 1186 governing several locations as tenente during different periods. The first of these was Benavente in 1180, in 1182 several regions in Galicia in the area of Toroño and Lemos and Montenegro as well as Villalpando in Zamora, Asturias and Extremadura. His presence is attested in several royal charters from 1186 to 1190 in Castile in the curia regis of King Alfonso VIII.