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El Cid
Castilian warlord and Prince of Valencia from 1094 to 1099
For other uses, see El Cid (disambiguation).
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099) was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain. Fighting both with Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid ("the Lord" or "the Master"), which would evolve into El Çid (Spanish:[elˈθið], Old Spanish:[elˈts̻id]), and the Spanish honorific El Campeador ("the Champion"). He was born in Vivar, a village near the city of Burgos.
As the head of his loyal knights, he came to dominate the Levante of the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 11th century. He reclaimed the Taifa of Valencia from Moorish control for a brief period during the Reconquista, ruling the Principality of Valencia from 17 June 1094 until his death in 1099. His wife, Jimena Díaz, inherited the city and maintained it until 1102 when it was reconquered by the Moors.
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Rodrigo Diaz dem Vivar
By William Stroock
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, a Castilian mercenary who served Christian kings and Muslim emirs alike in late 11th-century Spain, was born in 1043 in the by of Vivar, about six miles north of the city of Burgos. His father was a respected soldier, taking several castles and winning at least one pitched battle in a war against Navarre in the 1050s.
With his father’s military pedigree, Rodrigo was taken into the court of Prince Sancho, future king of Castile. There he spent his formative years training to be a knight. In addition to riding and swordsmanship, Rodrigo’s education included Latin, Arabic, the Bible, ancient history, and military treatises.
When Sancho was crowned king of Castile after his father’s death in 1065 (Fernando inom divided the kingdom between his three sons), Rodrigo was made commander, or armiger, of Sancho’s military forces. As armiger, Rodrigo was charged with recruiting, training, and commanding Sancho’s household t
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Rodrigo Díaz was born in Vivar, near Burgos. With his military talents, the Cid conquered lands occupied by the Moors to accumulate wealth and to integrate an autonomous principality. His greatest feat was winning his last battle after his death which it has been questioned, not disproved. Neither one nor the other version can be verified. The oral tradition was written years after the fact in several versions that match the main event and differ in the details.
The oldest biography of the Cid, is Roderici History, a chronic of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar’ gaits written in Latin between 1180 and 1190. It is not certain whether the author was an eyewitness or relied on oral tradition. Both Roderici’s History and the Cantar de Mio Cid (Poem of the Cid) seem to be based on oral tradition.
The Cid, who certainly was one of the greatest figures in the history of Spain, lived from 1043 to1099. When he was very young a war raised between the sons of King Ferdinand I. They were King Sancho o