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	El Cid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rodrigo Díaz was educated in the royal court of the Castile and became the alférez, or chief general, of Alfonso VI, fighting against the Moors in the early Reconquista.
		El Cid was educated in the Castilian royal court, serving the prince and future king Sancho II, the son of King Ferdinand I (the Great).
		El Cid is an ancestor to the monarchies of France and Britain though his daughter Cristina's son, García VI of Navarre, as well as every other monarchy in Europe through the previous two.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/El_Cid (2702 words)

	Swords of Cid, Tizona and Colada
		Rodrigo Díaz was born in Vivar, a small village situated 7 km far from the city of Burgos in the year 1043.
		Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, "the Mio Cid", in one of its battles.
		Cid´s remains and Jimena´s, his wife, are today in the centre of the cathedral in the capital of Castille, Burgos, but his spirit is still present between us.
	www.aceros-de-hispania.com /cid-campeador.htm (925 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: El Cid
		Vastly different indeed is the Cid of romance, legend, and ballad, wherein he is pictured as the tender, loving husband and father; the gentle courageous soldier; the noble, generous conqueror, unswervingly loyal to his country and his king; the man whose name has been an ever-present inspiration to Spanish patriotism.
		Rodrigo having been sent by Alfonso to collect tribute from the king of Seville, Alfonso's vassal, he was accused on his return, by his enemies of having retained a part of it.
		Rodrigo then began his career as a soldier of fortune, which has furnished themes to Spanish poets of early modern times, and which, idealized by tradition and legend, has made of him the champion of Christian Spain against her Moorish invaders.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03769a.htm (1492 words)

	El Cid
		El Cid was brought up in the court of King Fernand I and he lived in the household of the King's eldest son, who was to be the future Sancho II.
		El Cid proved to be such a help in defeating the Kingdom of Aragon that he was named Commander of the Royal Armies.
		El Cid was content to let the Almoravid armies and the armies of Alfonso fight without his help.
	www.ctspanish.com /legends/elcid.htm (1223 words)

	BATTLES OF RODRIGO DIAZ DE VIVAR "EL CID" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Castilian noblemen, leaded by Rodrigo Díaz, compeled Alfonso to swear he wasn't involved with the murder of his brother, before accept him, but it seems, after his oath, Rodrigo was one of the main supporters of Alfonso.
		Rodrigo still served Al-Mutamin until his death, but a short time later, he returned to Castile (1085), where his help was needed against the new North-African invaders: the Almoravids.
		El Cid refugeed in the forest of Tébar, near Teruel, and managed to divide Catalan army, who was humiliatingly defeated.
	es.geocities.com /endovelico2001/med/cid.html (1542 words)

	Dissertations, Essays on El Cid
		El Cid was a famous military leader in eleventh century Spain.
		He was originally named Rodrigo Dнaz de Vivar and was given his nickname, El Cid (“The Lord”), by the Moors.
		The epic poem, El cantar de mнo Cid (The Song of the Cid), written in the twelfth century, described his heroic deeds.
	www.essayboom.com /essay/El_Cid-101205.html (113 words)

	Cid, El (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		El Cid's exploits are recorded in the 12th-century Latin chronicle Historia Roderici and in the most famous Spanish epic, El cantar de mío Cid (The Song of the Cid).
		Illuminating the militaristic frontier culture of medieval Spain, it contrasts worthless nobles of high social rank with such men as El Cid, who are of humbler status but fight for honor and glory and are prudent, brave, generous, and loyal to family, king, and religion and thus superior in virtue.
		El Cid is also celebrated in some of Spain's finest ballads and in the works of such dramatists as the Spaniard Lope de Vega and the Frenchman Pierre Corneille.
	autocww.colorado.edu /~blackmon/E64ContentFiles/LeadersInEuropeanHistory/Cid,el.htm (317 words)

	El Cid Sword
		According to legend, Diáz de Vivar (El Cid) fought for Alfonso against the Moors, fought for the Moors against Alfonso, and conquered the Kingdom of Valencia for himself; he ruled there until his death in 1099.
		El Cid was also a great war hero due to his excellent achievements in the the Reconquest of Spain.
		El Cid was a superior and extremely successful soldier of fortune who apparently never lost a battle.
	www.iloveswords.com /ME_el_cid.html (196 words)

	LILLIPUT - El Cid Campeador
		It was during this period that Rodrigo came to be known as campi doctor (literally, "teacher of the [military] field"), or Campeador.
		Rodrigo was recalled to the royal favor immediately.The next three years were apparently spent in faithful service to the crown, but 1089 heralded a series of events that set the tone for the last, and arguably the most significant, decade of Rodrigo's life.
		Rodrigo responded to this challenge by laying siege to Valencia in the Summer of 1093.
	www.lilliputmodel.com /articulos/augie/cid_ing.htm (1228 words)

	Legends - Paladins and Princes - The Cid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It chronicles the life of Rodrigo (or Ruy) Diáz de Vivar, a commander under King Alfonso VI of Castile in the eleventh century.
		Diáz de Vivar fought for Alfonso against the Moors, fought for the Moors against Alfonso, and conquered the Kingdom of Valencia for himself; he ruled there until his death.
		El Cantar de Mio Cid, in Spanish with parallel English prose translation, at Orbis Latinus.
	legends.duelingmodems.com /paladins/cid.html (582 words)

	Alfonso VI of Castile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In the cantar de gesta of the Cid, he plays the part attributed by medieval poets to the greatest kings, and to Charlemagne himself.
		He is the hero of a cantar de gesta which, like all but a very few of the early Spanish songs, like the cantar of Bernardo del Carpio and the Infantes of Lara, exists now only in the fragments incorporated in the chronicle of Alfonso the Wise or in ballad form.
		They are the answer to the poet of the nobles who represented the king as having submitted to taking a degrading oath at the hands of Ruy Diaz de Vivar (El Cid), in the church of Santa Gadea at Burgos, and as having then persecuted the Brave man who defied him.
	alfonso-vi-of-castile.iqnaut.net (695 words)

	Cid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Cid (Final Fantasy), a "recurring character" of sorts in the Final Fantasy series of computer role-playing games.
		Le Cid is also a tragicomedy by Corneille
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cid (94 words)

	Rodrigo, Diáz de Vivar, the Chronicle of Cid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Rodrigo was yet but a youth, and the Count was a mighty man in arms, one who gave his voice first in the Cortes, and was held to be the best in the war, and so powerful that he had a thousand friends among the mountains.
		Rodrigo thanked them greatly for their good faith, and took the letters and carried them to the King, and showed him all the enmity of the Counts, and especially of the Count Don Garcia, who was afterwards called of Cabra.
		And the Count besought the Cid of his mercy to set him free, saying that he would give him a daughter he had, the which was right fair; and the Cid did as he besought him, and the daughter was given to him, and he set the Count free.
	www.corvalliscommunitypages.com /Europe/iberianonislam/rodrigo.htm (16873 words)

	At Oto's - Cantar de Mio Cid - The historical character of the Cid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		In 1065, Rodrigo was appointed commander of the royal troops (and he was only 22 years old !), and in 1067 he accompained Sancho on a campaign against the important Moorish kingdom of Zaragoza.
		The Cid' s body was later taken to Castile and reburied in the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña, near Burgos, where it became the centre of a lively tomb cult.
		That the Cid was a brillant and much-feared general and an iron-willed but crafty political leader is beyond doubt.
	www.gksdesign.com /atotos/cidhistorical.htm (689 words)

	El Cid
		"El Cid" is a compound of two separate sobriquets.
		The "El Cid" is derived from the word sidi in the Andalusi Arabic dialect (from the Arabic sayyid—"sir" or "lord," a title of respect) while the title el campeador (the champion) was granted by his Christian admirers.
		While he was deeply suspected in Castile (probably correctly) for being involved in Sancho's murder, a legend states that the Castillian nobility, led by the Cid and a dozen "oath-helpers," forced Alfonso to swear publicly in front of St. Galeas's Church in Burgos that he did not participate in the plot to kill his brother.
	el-cid.ask.dyndns.dk (2491 words)

	Swords of Cid, Tizona and Colada
		Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar “El Cid Campeador” (1043-1099)
		In 1081, the Cid is exiled for the first time in Castille.
		So "El Cantar del Cid" is a song recited by the juglars of that medieval times.
	www.aceros-de-hispania.com /tizona-cid-sword.htm (925 words)

	Galleons Library - The Lay of El Cid
		Diáz de Vivar fought for Alfonso against the Moors, fought for the Moors against Alfonso, and conquered the Kingdom of Valencia for himself - garnering the respect of both Spaniard and Moor.
		The title El Cid Campeador was a combination of Arabic ("El Cid" came from the Arabic al sayyid or "Lord",) and Spanish ("Campeador" is Spanish for "Champion".) This is the historical Cid.
		During the Zaragoza Campaign, Rodrigo and Ferdinand's eldest son Alfonso managed to extract from al-Muqtadir, king of Zaragoza, teh status of Tributary to the Castilian Crown.
	galleons.net /books/el_cid.htm (242 words)

	Search Tuna Report for el cid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Name at birth: Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar A central figure in the struggle between Christianity and Islam in medieval Spain, El Cid from the Arabic as-sid, meaning the lord was an 11th century warrior whose military exploits made him a folk hero of mythical proportions.
		Rodrigo Diaz served as the commander of the troops of Sancho II, ruler of Castile, beginning in 1065 Called El Cid by the Moors and El Campeador the champion by his countrymen, Rodrigo became famous for his military prowess in several battles against Sancho's brother, Alfonso VI, ruler oféon.
		Although the Cid accomplished the remarkable feats of capturing the rich Muslim kingdom of Valencia and holding it as his own, and being the first of the Christian leaders to defeat the Almoravides, a warlike band of zealots from North Africa, the poem concentrates upon his relationship with King Alfonso VI of Leon-Castile....
	www.searchtuna.com /ftlive2/3314.html (1528 words)

	El Cid Rodrigo (Ruy) Díaz de Vivar
		Named the Cid, for the Arabic word Sayyidi, or "leader," with the epithet "campeador," meaning "master of the field," Rodrigo Díaz appears in the poem as an invincible military leader.
		He was born into the lower nobility (infanzon) in the small town of Vivar, near Burgos, and was a vassal to the king of Spain.
		In the poem, this low social status is of great importance, for the Cid is a true social climber, gaining social status by successfully amassing wealth and...
	www.enotes.com /cantar-de/12848 (197 words)

	El Cid film movie trailer review at The Z Review
		The epic follows Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar - "El Cid" to his soldiers - as he seeks to rid 11th-century Spain of its Moorish invaders.
		Scott B. Smith is set to pen a remake of the Charlton Heston epic El Cid for MGM with Arthur Sarkissian producing.
		El Cid, again a remake with Martin Campbell directing.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /comingsoon/e/elcid.htm (342 words)

	El Cid \| Free Term Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		An Overview of the Life of a Spanish National Hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known best as El Cid, is revered as a great national hero of Spain.
		El Cid was born in Vivar near Burgos in 1043.
		El Cid was also directly connected on his mother’s side to royalty.
	www.oppapers.com /term-papers/29099.html (184 words)

	Route of El Cid - the route of the legendary Spanish knight
		Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (El Cid), a military and political leader, was born in Vivar around the year 1043, in a town that is known as Vivar del Cid.
		Sancho was assassinated in the year 1072, and El Cid served now the new king Alfonso, brother of Sancho, until the exile of El Cid, likely because of entering Granada with troops and without any authorization of Alfonso.
		El Cid, together with his wife, are buried in the Cathedral of Burgos, declared World Heritage by the UNESCO.
	www.spaindreams.com /eng/route_ruta_del_cid.htm (375 words)

	Return Of El Cid
		Rodrigo had picked the horse from an Andalusian herd owned by his godfather, Pedro El Grande.
		He remained open to input from his soldiers and to the possibility that he himself was capable of error." ("El Cid," op.
		El Cid and his army were famous for their use of psychological tactics.
	www.shout.net /~bigred/ElCid.html (615 words)

	Amazon.com: El Cid: Video: Anthony Mann,Charlton Heston,Sophia Loren,Raf Vallone,Geneviève Page,John Fraser,Gary ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		What is unusual in El Cid is the degree to which technology takes over his filmmaking, as it does here with so many grandiose and bravura moments with a roving camera that don't add up to anything beyond spectacle.
		Chimene loves Rodrigo who is to be her husband, than hates him for killing her father who insults Rodrigo's father and his family name.
		Charlton Heston plays Roderigo Diaz de Vivar honorifically titled as El Cid (The Champion) who is forced to kill the father of his betrothed Jemina (Sophia Loren) as a result of a feud involving his own father.
	www.amazon.com /El-Cid-Anthony-Mann/dp/6303282237 (2345 words)

	el Cid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		El Cid was born Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar in Spain.
		He was a military leader who became a Spanish national hero through exageration of his role in history by chroniclers.
		El Cid became a commander under the Castilian king in 1065.
	www.hyperhistory.com /online_n2/people_n2/ppersons5_n2/elcid.html (101 words)

	Films Media Group - El Cantar de Mio Cid
		El Cid is unique among the world’s great epics because it was composed so close to the actual historical events (a mere 40 years after the death of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, el Cid himself) that we can distinguish between man and legend.
		The greatest Spanish work of the Siglo de Oro is here presented as a feature film that painstakingly and lovingly re-creates the medieval world of Lope's play.
		Films Media Group, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, Shopware and their respective logos are trademarks of Films Media Group, a PRIMEDIA company.
	www.films.com /id/2305/El_Cantar_de_Mio_Cid.htm (295 words)

	El Cid Campeador
		His real name was Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar and he gained great fame when a 12th-century epic poem, "The Song of the Cid" (Cid, from the Arabic, means "lord"), describing his exploits was published.
		Diaz was born about 1043 and brought up in the court of Ferdinand I. At an early age he won respect for exceptional military ability.
		After leading an unauthorized raid into territory under the protection of Alfonso VI of Leon, however, he was expelled from the kingdom.
	www.occultopedia.com /c/cid.htm (621 words)

	El Cid (1961) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Plot Summary: Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour...
		Goofs: Crew or equipment visible: When El Cid and his army are charging down the beach at Valencia the tire tracks from the camera truck are briefly visible in the sand.
		This is the kind of classic epic that moves you emotionally and draws you in, you feel for the characters and are awed by the events.
	www.imdb.com /Title?0054847 (440 words)

	Leaders and Battles: Díaz de Vivar, Rodrigo
		El Cid, son of a minor Castilian nobleman, was raised in the home of future king Sancho II.
		He distinguished himself early on as a military leader during the campaigns against Aragon for control of Zaragoza.
		He was known for his innovative battle strategies that included brainstorming prior to a battle, and psychological warfare.
	www.lbdb.com /TMDisplayLeader.cfm?PID=5949 (163 words)

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