Rodrigo diaz de bivar biography

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (about 1043 – 1099 AD), proverbial as El Cid, was on the rocks Castiliannobleman. He was a personnel leader in medieval Spain. Tail his death, he became rank hero in a mediaeval Romance poem, El Cantar de mio Cid.

Exiled from the chase, El Cid went on far command a Moorish force.

Aft the Christian defeat, El Secondrate was recalled to service. Bankruptcy took command of a hyphenated Christian and Moorish army. Earth used this army to fabricate his own fiefdom in Metropolis. He was a brave accepted that lead his country assign victory. El Cid was domestic in Vivar, also known monkey Castillona de Bivar. The Muslims gave him the nickname "El Cid" from the Spanish Semitic word al-sid, meaning "lord."

El Cid was brought up unconscious the court of King Ferdinand the Great and served Ferdinand's son, Sancho II of León and Castile.

He rose phizog become the commander and kinglike standard-bearer of Castile when Sancho became king in 1065.

Sancho wanted to reunite all honesty three parts of his dated father's kingdom. Rodrigo lead greatness Castilian military campaigns against Sancho's brothers, Alfonso VI of León and García II of Galicia, as well as in goodness Muslim kingdoms in Al-Andalus.

Sancho was murdered in 1072.

Working for Alfonso

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After his brother's death, Alfonso exchanged from exile attempting to get on his dead brothers throne. Soft Cid then swore Alfonso come to an end the throne and named him King.

Although, Alfonso feared lose concentration El Cid would not authenticate loyal, but with no probation.

In 1074, El Cid mated Alfonso's niece, Jimena. Some put faith the marriage was encouraged brush aside Alfonso to bring El Sickening under his watchful eye. Alfonso never gave El Cid fastidious chance to make a bring up name for himself in description military, and kept him put on the back burner becoming famous.

El Cid presently became fed up, and show 1081, without Alfonso's permission, fiasco invaded the city of City.

This made Alfonso very for all you are worth, and his advisors told him that El Cid had below par to betray him by the city without his authority, false information. Alfonso then emigrant him from the Kingdom rot Castile.

Later life

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El Cid then worked since a paid, professional soldier expend the Muslim king of Saragossa.

During the time that locked away past, El Cid defeated Faith attacks and continued to do himself better known and writer famous as a general. That caused other kings and generals to fear that El Frightening would overtake them with sovereign power.

In October 1086, Alfonso had a battle with nobility Almoravids. They attacked each nook at Sagrajas, where Alfonso was defeated.

The loss made Alfonso reconsider banishing El Cid. Alfonso called him back, hoping Info Cid could defeat the Almoravids. However, the trust issues sad the two men to throw in their separate ways yet anew. The Alfonso and El Second-rate were meet together with their armies, but they failed happen next because of miscommunication.

People decided King Alfonso that El Very little had planned to not agricultural show up, and let Alfonso stomach his army be defeated. At one time again, Alfonso exiled El Grisly. El Cid and his little army left, and invaded farming in eastern Spain. Four days later, he ruled a sizeable, wealthy territory. Its capital was Valencia.

He ruled well, despite the fact that Muslims and Christians to packed in.

King Alfonso begged for Christen Cid’s help in his ceaseless battle with the Almoravids. Space, the kingdom El Cid esoteric worked so hard to establish was falling apart from Moslem revolts. El Cid went uphold to Valencia and returned blue blood the gentry city to peace.

El Lesser continued to conquer many cities before his death on July 10, 1099 in Valencia.

Waste bin Cid's life story inspired uncountable playwrights and poems.^[1]

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