Daniel Rodriga

Speculative son of Jewish families in Split, XVI - XVII c.

Daniel Rodriga (Rodriguez)' Last Will and Testament, written on May 23, 1603 in Venice

Published in Leoni and Andrade, "Daniel Rodriga, um dos grandes protagonistas das Nações Portuguesas do Mediterrâneo".

The article, which incorporates the transcription of Rodriga's will, sheds lights on his Portuguese origins, his family ties and his activities in the wider Mediterranean commerce, starting as early as 1549.

-MK

Tombstone inscription from the Old Jewish Cemetery on Lido, Venice

First published in Berliner, Luhot Abanim: Hebraische Grabschriften in Italien, pg 56.

קצין וראש לכל עמו

לו הוא דורש טוב מעצמו

כי דמשרה עלי שכמו

שמו הגביר כמ"ר דניאל רודריגה נפטר ביום כ"ז

סיון השס"ג תנצב"ה

-MK

Daniel Rodriga (Rodriguez) (c. 1501 - c. aft. 1589)

Rodriga (Rodriguez), Daniel, poduzetnik u Splitu (XVI. st.). Španjolski Židov, koji se u izvorima spominje od 1549. Bio je inicijator podizanja splitske trgovačke skele (Splitska skela), a potaknuo je i gradnju carinarnice s lazaretom u Splitu. God. 1577. mletačka je vlada prihvatila Rodrigin prijedlog i povjerila mu organizaciju i izgradnju skele. Iako njezino podizanje nije teklo prema planu (problemi s carinom i prijenosom robe, neprijateljski odnos splitskoga kneza Loredana prema Rodrigi, upletanje Dubrovčana u Rodrigine trgovačke sporazume s Osmanlijama), skela je ipak bila službeno otvorena 1592. Tada je mletačka vlada potvrdila Rodrigin izbor za konzula židovskog stanovništva u Splitu, a židovskim trgovcima u gradu dodijelila je mnogobrojne povlastice. Od tada je Split postao važno trgovačko središte i, do Kandijskoga rata (1645–69), jedna od najvažnijih europskih luka za promet s Osmanskim Carstvom.

• Rodriga, Daniel. Hrvatska enciklopedija, Leksikografski zavod Miroslav Krleža, Zagreb
• Rodriga (Rodriguez), Danijel, Židovski biografski leksikon
• Splitski lazaret
• Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630, Petition of Daniel Rodriga, consul of the Shepardic Jewish merchants (Ravid 1976, p.p. 217-17
• The Estates of a Jewish Merchant and of a Rabbi in Seventeenth Century Venice
• THE THIRD CHARTER OF THE JEWISH MERCHANTS OF VENICE, 1611: A CASE STUDY IN COMPLEX MULTIFACETED NEGOTIATIONS, Benjamin Ravid, Jewish Political Studies Review, Vol. 6, No. 1/2 (Spring 1994), pp. 83-134 (52 pages), Published By: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, JSTOR
• Other sources at google search
• Family name Rodrigues/ Rodriguez, Origin of surname

RODRIGUES Origin of surname

RODRIGUES

Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name is based on a vernacular personal name.

The Spanish/Portuguese Rodriguez derives from the Old German Hrodric, meaning "famous king", which became Roderic(k). As a Jewish family name, Rodriguez is documented in Spain in 1488 and in Mexico in 1581; Rodrigo is found in the early 16th century in Portugal; Rodriga in Split (in the former Yugoslavia) in the 16th century; Rodriguez in Portugal in the 16th century; and Rodrigue in Nice, France, in 1687. An abbreviated form is Driches. In the 17th century, Rodriguez is recorded as a Jewish name with the merchant Jacob Rodriguez, mentioned in documents of the French consulate in Tunis in the 18th century, the name is recorded as a Jewish family name in a 'ketubbah' from Tunis dated May 14, 1792, of Samuel, son of Isaac Rodriguez, and his wife Anne, daughter of Abraham Bais (Vais). The name (and variants) is recorded as a Jewish family name in the following cases: the physician Alonso Rodriguez was born in Seville and lived in Saragossa, Spain, where he was executed by the Spanish Inquisition in 1488. In the 17th century, Miguel Rodriguez and his wife Isabel Nunez Alvarez owned a clandestine synagogue for Crypto-Jews in the Calle de los Infantes in Madrid; they were executed by the Spanish Inquisition in Madrid on July 4, 1632. Raphael Ben Judah Rodriguez was a rabbi in Amsterdam, Holland, in the 18th century; the economist Olinde Rodriguez was born 1794 in Bordeaux, France, died 1850 in Paris.

ID Number: 161662, Written by researchers of ANU Museum of the Jewish People