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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.
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").
After his death on 10 June 1099, his wife Jimena became Lady of Valencia. The Almoravids started a siege on the city and she managed to defend it with the help of Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona until May 1102, when Alfonso VI of León and Castile, considering the difficulties of defending Valencia, on 4 May 1102 ordered the evacuation of the city of Christians, subsequently setting it on ...
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.
The Carmen Campi Doctoris, a poem in praise of El Cid, has a long description of El Cid arming himself for battle, but the text has been damaged and the description of the battle itself is lost. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] In the Carmen , Almenar is the third fight of El Cid's career, after his combat with the anonymous Navarrese champion and his conflict ...
Vivar, or Vivar del Cid, is a village of approximately 260 inhabitants, [1] part of the municipality of Quintanilla Vivar, located 7 kilometers (4.3 mi) away from Burgos, Spain. Tradition holds that the village was the birthplace of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid , as first written in the Castilian epic poem Cantar de Mio Cid .
The Crónica del famoso cavallero Cid Ruy Díez Campeador, commonly called the Crónica particular del Cid, is a 15th-century Spanish biography of El Cid. Juan de Velorado, abbot of San Pedro de Cardeña, made an edition of the Crónica from a single manuscript (now BNE, MS 1810) and had it printed at Burgos by Fadrique Alemán de Basilea in ...
[1] [2] El Cid had joined forces with Peter I of Aragon later that year in Burriana to cement an alliance with the end goal of doing battle with the Almoravids. 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 .