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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").
El Cid is a 1961 epic historical drama film directed by Anthony Mann and produced by Samuel Bronston. The film is loosely based on the life of the 11th-century Castilian knight and warlord Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar , called "El Cid" (from the Arabic al-sidi , meaning "The Lord").
The World of El Cid: Chronicles of the Spanish Reconquest. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 0-7190-5226-2. Catalán, Diego. 1966. "Sobre el «Ihante» que quemó la mezquita de Elvira y la crisis de Navarra en el siglo XI". Al-Andalus, 31(1): 209–35. Fletcher, Richard A. 1989. The Quest for El Cid. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
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. [3] [4] When Ibn Nasr arrived, he was ...
5° phase: After a failed attempt of partitioning Navarre between Castile and Aragon, Castilian-Navarrese conflict ends with the Peace of Calahorra (ending Conflict of succession in Navarra). 6° phase: The Aragonese–Navarrese conflicts continues until 1146 with the Truce of San Esteban de Gormaz , in which Castile quits of the war.
For some reason the film wrongly makes Urraca the ruler of Calahorra, rather than Zamora. Urraca is portrayed by the French actress Geneviève Page. Urraca appears as one of the main characters in the 2020 Amazon Prime Video Spanish television series El Cid, portrayed by actress Alicia Sanz . In the series, Urraca is presented as the highly ...
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 ...
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 ...