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The journey of the Cid
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Although his biography ran for centuries interspersed with legend, today we know his real life quite accurately and we even possess, which is still astonishing, an autograph of his, the signature he stamped when dedicating the Cathedral of Valencia to the Virgin Mary “in the year of the Incarnation of the Lord 1098”. In said document, El Cid, who never used officially that designation, he presents himself same as ""Prince Rodrigo the Champion"". Let's see what his story was. |
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The epic song called ""Cantar de Mio Cid"" is the first extensive narrative work of Spanish literature in a Romance language. It consists of 3,735 anisosyllabic verses that recount heroic feats freely inspired by the last years of the life of the Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar.
The epic song called ""Cantar de Mio Cid"" is the first extensive narrative work of Spanish literature in a Romance language. It consists of 3,735 anisosyllabic verses that recount heroic feats freely inspired by the last years of the life of the Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar.
The epic song called ""Cantar de Mio Cid"" is the first extensive narrative work of Spanish literature in a Romance language. It consists of 3,735 anisosyllabic verses that recount heroic feats freely inspired by the last years of the life of the Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar.
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Rodrigo Díaz (¿Vivar del Cid< /a>, Burgos?,2 < em>c. 10483-Valencia, 1099), also known as el Cid Campeador, was a military leaderCastilian who arrived to dominate at the head of his own mesnada el Levante de la iberian peninsula at the end of the 12th century as an autonomous lord ;noma regarding the authority of any king. He got conquer Valencia and established in this city an independent lord since June 17, 10944 until his death; His wife, Jimena Díaz, inherited it; and maintained until 1102, when he passed back to Muslim rule.
His family origin is discussed in several theories. He was the king's grandfatherGarcía Rami; rez of Pamplona, his daughter's first-born son Cristina.
Despite his later legend as a hero of Castile or a crusader in favor of the Reconquista, throughout his life he placed himself under the orders of different leaders, both Christian and Muslim, truly fighting as his own master and for his own benefit, which is why the portrait that some authors make of him is similar to that of a mercenario, a professional soldier, who provides his services in exchange for pay. 5
He is a historical and legendary figure of the Reconquista, whose life inspired ; the most important song of deeds of the Spanish literature, the Cantar de mio Cid. He has passed down to posterity as «the Campeador» (‘expert in pitched battles’) or «the Cid» (from dialectal Arabic ??? < em>sidi, ‘sir’).
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At the beginning of 1097, the last Almoravid expedition in Rodrigo's life took place, commanded by Muhammad ben Tashufin, which ended in with the battle of Bairén (about five kilometers north of Gandía), won once again by the Castilian leader, this time with the help of the Aragonese army of King Pedro I, with whom Rodrigo had allied himself in 1094.
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