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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 ...
Dark Angel ( Maxine "Max" Guevara, portrayed by Jessica Alba ). Eduardo "Ed" Dorado, Jr. of Young Justice. Isaac Mendez of Heroes. Jade ( Guatemala Clan, Gargoyles) Kennedy of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Marco from the TV series Animorphs. La Mascara Negra. Maya Herrera of Heroes. Molly Hernandez of Runaways.
St Isidore of Seville (c. 560–636), bishop, humanist and doctor of the Church. St Ignatius of Loyola (1491–1556), founder of the Society of Jesus. St John of Avila (1500–1569), priest, preacher, theologian and mystic. St John of the Cross (1542–1591), mystic and monastic reformer, doctor of the Church.
The commonly used title El Cantar de mio Cid means literally The Song of my Lord or The Poem of my Lord. As the original title of the poem is lost to history, this one was suggested by historian Ramón Menéndez Pidal. It is Old Spanish (old Castilian), adjusted to modern orthography. In modern Spanish the title might be rendered El Poema de mi ...
Bernardo de Gálvez. Bernardo Vicente de Gálvez y Madrid, 1st Count of Gálvez (23 July 1746 – 30 November 1786) was a Spanish military leader and government official who served as colonial governor of Spanish Louisiana and Cuba, and later as Viceroy of New Spain . A career soldier since the age of 16, Gálvez was a veteran of several wars ...
Bernardo del Carpio. Bernardo del Carpio (also spelled Bernaldo del Carpio) is a legendary hero of the medieval Spain. [ 1] Until the end of the nineteenth century and the labors of Ramón Menéndez Pidal, he, not El Cid, was considered to have been the chief hero of medieval Christian Spain and was believed to be a historical person.
Zorro (Spanish: or, Spanish for "fox") is a fictional character created in 1919 by American pulp writer Johnston McCulley, appearing in works set in the Pueblo of Los Angeles in Alta California. [1] He is typically portrayed as a dashing masked vigilante that defends the commoners and Indigenous peoples of California against corrupt and ...
Hatuey ( / ɑːˈtweɪ / ), also Hatüey ( / ˌɑːtuˈeɪ /; died 2 February 1512), was a Taíno Cacique (chief) of the Hispaniolan cacicazgo of Guanaba (in present-day La Gonave, Haiti ). [ 1] He lived from the late 15th until the early 16th century. Chief Hatuey and many of his tribesmen travelled from present-day La Gonave by canoe to Cuba ...