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El Cid
Spanish military leader
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar 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, which would evolve into El Çid, and the Spanish honorific El... Wikipedia
Born: Vivar del Cid, Spain
Died: July 10, 1099, Valencia, Spain
Place of burial: Burgos Cathedral, Burgos, Spain
Children: María Rodríguez de Vivar, Diego Rodríguez, and Cristina Rodríguez
Parents: Diego Laínez and Diego Flaínez
Spouse: Jimena Díaz (m. 1074–1099)
Grandchildren: García Ramírez of Navarre, Ximena de Barcelona i de Díaz, and Elvira de Navarre
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This biography serves merely as a backdrop to the legendary creation, and thus, for example, neither the Carmen Campidoctoris (or Latin Poem of El Cid Campeador) ...
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (about 1043 – 1099 AD), known as El Cid, was a Castilian nobleman. He was a military leader in medieval Spain.
He was given the title of seid or cid (lord, chief) by the Moors and that of campeador (champion) by his admiring countrymen. Tradition and legend have cast a ...