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Babieca, or Bavieca, was El Cid's warhorse. Several stories exist about El Cid and Babieca. One well-known legend about El Cid describes how he acquired the stallion. According to this story, Rodrigo's godfather, Pedro El Grande, was a monk at a Carthusian monastery. Pedro's coming-of-age gift to El Cid was his pick of a horse from an ...
While El Cid (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) was away from Valencia in October 1092, the Valencians had gathered at the house of Ibn Jahhaf and agreed to appeal to Muhammad ibn Aisa to depose Yahya al-Qadir, sending the troops under Ibn Nasr, but Al-Qadir entrenched himself and sent an urgent message to El Cid.
El Cantar de mio Cid shows signs of being designed for oral transmission. For example, the poem ends with a request for wine for the person who has recited it ( Es leido, dadnos del vino ). On the other hand, some critics (known as individualists) believe El Cantar de mio Cid was composed by one Per Abbad (in English, Abbot Peter [ 4 ] ) who ...
The endowment diploma of the Valencia Cathedral, signed by Rodrigo Díaz. The Almoravid pressure did not relent and in mid-September of that same year an army under the command of Muhammad ibn Tashfin, nephew of Emir Yusuf, reached Quart de Poblet, five kilometers from the capital, and besieged it, [6] but was defeated after the Battle of Cuarte, [7] which took place on October 21, 1094 ...
El Cid, or Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, was a medieval Spanish hero. El Cid may also refer to: Cantar de mio Cid, a medieval Spanish epic poem; Le Cid, a 1636 tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille; Le Cid, an 1885 opera in four acts by Jules Massenet; El Cid, a 1961 film; El Cid, a Spanish historical action drama web television series
The Way of El Cid (Spanish: El Camino del Cid) is a cultural and tourist route that crosses Spain from the northwest to the southeast, from Castilla to the Mediterranean coast. It follows the history and the legend of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid Campeador , a medieval knight of the 11th century and one of Spain’s greatest characters.
Under this agreement, El Cid departed in December 1096 with the aid of Aragonese troops to bring weapons, ammunition, and general supplies to the castle of Sierra de Benicadell. The castle itself had been retaken by "El Cid" in October 1091 to control access to Valencia from the south via the interior route. That action had taken place in the ...
Le Cid is a five-act French tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille, first performed in December 1636 at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris and published the same year. It is based on Guillén de Castro's play Las Mocedades del Cid. [1] Castro's play in turn is based on the legend of El Cid.