Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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").
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 2020 Spanish historical action drama television series about Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar "El Cid", the 11th-century Castilian knight and warlord. Created by José Velasco and Luiz Arranz for Amazon Prime Video, [1] the series stars Jaime Lorente alongside José Luis García Pérez, Elia Galera, Carlos Bardem, Alicia Sanz and Jaime Olías, among others.
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 ...
Heston finished filming his scenes in April 1961, with the duel fight of Calahorra sequence. [72] Released in December 1961, El Cid was released to critical acclaim, with praise towards Mann's direction, the cast and the cinematography. [73] At the box office, the film earned $12 million in distributor rentals from the United States and Canada ...
Sources associated with the legend of her father tell of the marriages of the daughters of El Cid to the Infantes de Carrión, their humiliation by the Infantes, and their subsequent remarriage to princes of Navarre and Aragon.
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.
[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 .