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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: [el ˈθið], Old Spanish: [el ˈts̻id]), and the Spanish honorific El Campeador ("the Champion").
Sources associated with the legend of her father tell of the marriages of the daughters of El Cid to the Infantes de Carrión, their humiliation by the Infantes, and their subsequent remarriage to princes of Navarre and Aragon.
She was the wife and successor of El Cid, whom she married between July 1074 and 12 May 1076. [4] The Principality of Valencia was an independent state founded by Jimena's husband. Biography
In July 2023, Reina del Cid "reintroduced" herself as Elle Cordova to reflect new "songs and poems that feel more personal...than ever before." [ 15 ] As a self-professed "English major nerd with a penchant for sci-fi tv shows," [ 16 ] the artist has released poems, skits, and songs on science, space, sci-fi, and literary themes, some set to ...
A lion interrupts a game of backgammon in this illustration from the 1525 Cromberger edition. The Coronica del Çid Ruy Diaz, commonly called the Crónica popular del Cid, is an anonymous Spanish biography of El Cid published with woodcut illustrations at Seville in 1498.
El C.I.D. is an ITV television crime drama comedy that ran for three seasons from 7 February 1990 until 2 March 1992. [1] The series starred Alfred Molina as Bernard Blake, a C.I.D. officer who takes early retirement and moves to Spain where he and his work partner, Douglas Bromley (), a retired records officer, keep an eye on the expat community of British gangsters.
Cristina Rodríguez (born c. 1075) was a daughter of Rodrigo Díaz also known as El Cid and Jimena Díaz. In 1099 or earlier, she married Ramiro Sánchez of Pamplona, the tenant-in-chief of Monzón from 1104. She was the mother of King García Ramírez of Navarre el Restaurador, who in 1130 was married to Margaret of L'Aigle.
The largest portion of the history (chapters 28–64) is devoted to his second exile and conquest of Valencia (1089–95). The final section (chapters 65–75) covers the last two years of Rodrigo's life and a brief epilogue (chapters 76–77) describes the Christian evacuation of Valencia in 1102 under the direction of Jimena.