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El Cid picked a horse that his godfather thought was a weak, poor choice, causing the monk to exclaim "Babieca!" (stupid!). Hence, it became the name of El Cid's horse. Another legend states that in a competition of battle to become King Sancho's "Campeador", or champion, a knight on horseback wished to challenge El Cid. The King wished a fair ...
El Cid Campeador is an outdoor equestrian statue depicting the 11-century Spanish knight and warlord El Cid by artist Anna Hyatt Huntington, architect William Templeton Johnson, and the foundry General Bronze Company, installed at Balboa Park's Plaza de Panama in San Diego, California.
On a $7 million budget, filming of El Cid began in September 1960 and concluded in April 1961. El Cid premiered on December 6, 1961 at the Metropole Theatre in London, and was released on December 14 in the United States. The film received largely positive reviews praising the performances of Heston and Loren, the cinematography, and the ...
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 ...
Equestrian of El Cid at Prado de San Sebastian by Anna Hyatt Huntington; Equestrian of Simón Bolivar Glorieta de Buenos Aires. Equestrian of María de las Mercedes Borbón y Orleans at Paseo de Colón. Equestrian of The Scout, a 1992 gift from Seville's sister-city, Kansas City, Missouri.
Autumn Dew, horse owned by Emperor Taizong of Tang; Babieca, horse of El Cid; Bill the Bastard, legendary Australian war horse; Black Jack, the last Quartermaster-issued U.S. Army horse, died February 6, 1976; Blueskin, one of Washington's two primary mounts during the American Revolutionary War
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The Historia Roderici ("History of Rodrigo"), originally Gesta Roderici Campi Docti ("Deeds of Rodrigo el Campeador") and sometimes in Spanish Crónica latina del Cid ("Latin Chronicle of the Cid"), is an anonymous Latin prose history of the Castilian warrior Rodrigo Díaz, better known as El Cid Campeador.