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	Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. Who is Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar? What is Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar? Where is Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar? ...
		El Cid and also El Cid Campeador, is the name commonly used for the important Spanish knight and hero, Rodrigo (or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar (born in Vivar, Burgos, Spain circa 1045, died in Valencia, Spain in July 1099).
		Don Rodrigo's (Don is an honorific, similar to Sir or Mr.) biography is one filled with adventure and intrigue, which has made him a popular subject for many writers and has led to his status as a legendary figure.
		The apocryphal tale of his journey into exile is told in "Cantar de Mio Cid", a cantar de gesta epic appearing shortly after his death; he reportedly marched stoically into exile with his soldiers and servants, and with tears in his eyes.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Rodrigo_Diaz_de_Vivar (822 words)

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		Escudo de Armas: En Asturias y León: En campo de plata un león rampante de gules con un bastón de oro perilado de sable en su garra diestra.
		Los de Burgos y Palencia: En campo de plata una cruz de gules floreteada y cargada de cuatro veneras de oro.
		En Aragón: En campo de oro tres bandas de azur.
	www.misapellidos.com /ver_datos_impresora.phtml?cod=14282 (1784 words)

	BATTLES OF CASTILE & LEON
		Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, defeats now a combined army of the kings of Valencia (Abu Bakr), Lleida (Al-Hayib), Aragón (Sancho Ramírez) and the Count of Barcelona (Berenguer Ramón II).
		Rodrigo González de Lara (governor of Toledo) defeats and kills the king Umar of Seville, near this city.
		The rebel Juan de la Cerda is defeated by the town milita of Seville, under the command of Juan Ponce de León & Gil Bocanegra.
	es.geocities.com /endovelico2001/med/battle.html (2806 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.
		Firmly stablished in Valencia, Rodrigo allied Pedro I of Aragon and Ramon Berenguer III of Barcelona with the purpose of stopping the almoravid pressure.
	www.aceros-de-hispania.com /tizona-cid-sword.htm (925 words)

	www.caminosantiago.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		According to the Castilian epic poems, Rodrígo Díaz de Vivar, the famous "Cid Campeador", the popular christian hero, was one of the famous pilgrims to arrive at Compostela.
		Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar was born in Burgos in 1040 and died in Valencia in 1099.
		However, this unfavorable vision of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar cannot be fully believed, since it came from Moorish historians of that time.
	www.caminosantiago.com /web_ingles/peregrinosilustres7.htm (315 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: El Cid
		At this time, Rodrigo Diaz was quite young, and Sancho, out of gratitude for the services of Rodrigo's father to the State, had retained his son at the court and looked after his education, especially his military training.
		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 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid Campeador ("The Lord Champion"), was born, near Burgos, in 1043 and died in Valencia in 1099.
		Rodrigo was given the position of Standard Bearer or Head of Royal Armies.
		To this day, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar is known as a hero of Christian Spain.
	staff.esuhsd.org /~balochie/studentprojects/elcid (440 words)

	Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, Portal Fuenterrebollo
		De regreso a Burgos, García Ordóñez y Pedro Ansúrez, desencadenaron una traición contra Rodrigo, consiguiendo que en 1081 Alfonso VI le desterrase de Castilla, prohibiendo a los burgaleses darle ayuda o aposento alguno.
		Rodrigo regresó a Burgos en 1087, la enemistad con Alfonso VI aceleró su marcha hacia Valencia donde se convirtió en el protector del rey Al-Cádir, sometiendo a los pequeños reinos de Albarracín y Alpuente.
		Rodrigo Díaz se convirtió en el señor de Valencia, otorgando a la ciudad un estatuto justo y equilibrado, restaurando la religión cristiana, acuñando moneda y restaurando la mezquita de los musulmanes.
	www.fuenterrebollo.com /Fuero-Castilla/Cid/cid-campeador.html (817 words)

	Romances del Cid
		By the end of the first century of the second millennium, however, Christian Spain had extended its territory south to Toledo (in the center of the peninsula) and the Christian kings had managed to bring most of the Islamic lords under their sway, exacting annual tributes.
		Rodrigo Díaz, who would later be called "the Cid" (from the arabic sayyid or sidi meaning lord or leader), was born c.
		Rodrigo's grandfather, Laín Calvo, was a respected Castilian noble and according to some sources was related by marriage to the family of Fernando I. The romances refer often to the honor of the house of Laín Calvo into which the Cid was born.
	uwp.edu /~mcnair/romancesdelcid (1738 words)

	BATTLES OF RODRIGO DIAZ DE VIVAR "EL CID" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		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.
		The army of Rodrigo (much more tiny than the Almoravid one) goes out from the city and defeat Muhammad, who didn't hope Rodrigo to attack the first: that was the first time that Almoravids (considered until this moment as invincible) were defeated.
	es.geocities.com /endovelico2001/med/cid.html (1542 words)

	Rodrigo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In the year of the Incarnation 1026 was Rodrigo born, of this noble lineage, in the city of Burgos, and in the street of St. Martin, hard by the palace of the Counts of Castille, where Diego Laynez had his dwelling.
		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.
	www.corvalliscommunitypages.com /Europe/iberianonislam/rodrigo.htm (16872 words)

	El Cid - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Based on his participation in 1063 at the Battle of Graus, however, most historians believe that El Cid was born between 1043 and 1045, in Vivar (Bivar), a small town about six miles north of Burgos, the capital of Castile.
		According to this story, Rodrigo's godfather, Pedro El Grande, was a monk at a Carthusian monastery.
		The Cid was married in July 1074 to Alfonso's kinswoman Jimena de Gormaz (spelled Ximena in Old Castillian), the daughter of the Count of Oviedo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rodrigo_Diaz_de_Vivar (2698 words)

	Espadas del Cid, Tizona y Colada
		Rodrigo Díaz nació en Vivar, una pequeña aldea situada a 7 kilómetros de la ciudad de Burgos en el año 1043.
		Hijo de Diego Laínez, noble caballero de la Corte Castellana y de una hija de Rodrigo Alvarez.
		Todos los juglares de los siglos posteriores a su muerte contarían en forma de cantares de gesta su vida y sus hazañas, así como también inventarían su leyenda.
	www.aceros-de-hispania.com /tizona-cid.htm (1036 words)

	THE CID - LoveToKnow Article on THE CID (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		So extravagant are the deeds ascribed to him, and so marvellous the attributes with which he has been clothed by the fond idolatry of his countrymen, that by some he has been classed with the Amdises and the Orlandos whose exploits he emulated.
		Rodrigo Diaz, called de Bivar, from the place of his birth, better known by the title given him by the Arabs as the Cid (El Seid, the lord), and El Campeador, the champion par excellence, was of a noble family, one of whose members in a former generation had been elected judge of Castile.
		In the quarrel between Sancho and his brotherAlphonso, Rodrigo Diaz espoused the cause of the former, and it was he who suggested the perfidious stratagem by which Sancho eventually obtained the victory and possession of Leon.
	www.1911ency.org /C/CI/CID_THE.htm (2049 words)

	vivar
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		BiografÃa de Rodrigo DÃaz de Vivar por VÃctor de Burgos.
	www.translationinfo.net /db/vivar (929 words)

	Skadi Forum - El Cid Campeador (Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		El Cid, also called El Cid Campeador, is the name commonly used for the important Spanish knight and hero, Rodrigo (or Ruy) Díaz de Vivar (born in Vivar, Burgos, Spain around 1045 and died in Valencia, Spain in July 1099).
		According to this story, Rodrigo’s godfather, Pedro El Grande, was a monk at a Carthisian monastery, and gave El Cid a coming-of-age gift of his pick of a horse from an Andalusian herd.
		In 1999, a small sample of the blade was subjected to metallurgical analysis which partially confirmed its provenance as probably having been made in Moorish Cordoba in the eleventh century, although the report does not specify whether the larger-scale composition of the blade identifies it as Damascus steel.
	forum.skadi.net /printthread.php?t=12509 (2647 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)

	busqueme.info: obra de rodrigo diaz de vivar
		Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar es uno de los personajes más conocidos de toda la Edad Media española; buena parte de su fama se debe a la composición literaria de una de las obra cumbres de la poesía épica europea, el Cantar de Mío Cid.
		de los ochenta del siglo XI corría por estas tierras Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar afanado en los trabajitos que tan bien recompensaba su amigo...
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	www.busqueme.info /obra-de-rodrigo-diaz-de-vivar (969 words)

	Cid, the -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia Online Article
		Rodrigo Díaz was born about 1040, and most of his heroic deeds were performed during the struggle to expel the Moors from Spain.
		The model for the Cid was an actual person, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, who died in 1099.
		One of the most important members of a group of Spanish dramatists that flourished in Valencia, Guillén de Castro is remembered chiefly for his work Las mocedades del Cid (1599?; The Youth of the Cid), upon which the French playwright Pierre Corneille based his famous drama Le Cid (1637).
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article?tocId=9360793 (873 words)

	busqueme.info: imagenes de rodrigo diaz de vivar
		Sobre la base de las imágenes originales de todas las páginas conservadas del manuscrito de Per Abbat, depositado en la Biblioteca Nacional, multitud...
		Por ella salía de Burgos para batallar Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y por ella regresaba a sus lares para descansar de la dura contienda contra la...
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	Cid, El -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar was the real name of El Cid, the most notable military leader of 11th-century Christian Spain.
		The earliest surviving monument of Spanish literature, and one of its most distinctive masterpieces, was the Poema (or Cantar) de mío Cid (“Song of My Cid”), an epic poem of the mid-12th century (the existing manuscript is an imperfect copy of 1307).
		It tells of the fall from and restoration to royal favour of a Castilian noble, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9273357 (857 words)

	Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		De cette exigeance nait l’inimitié qui va opposer Alphonse, devenu empereur de toutes les Espagnes, au vassal et maître d’armes, le Campidoctor.
		La "reconquista" correspond a une pèriode de l’histoire de l’espagne qui a commencée en 718 ap JC et s’est terminée en 1492 ap JC.Elle correspond a une vaste opération militaire, mené par les rois espagnoles chrétiens qui avait pour objectif de "reconquérir" les provinces espagnoles qui été sous le contrôle des Maures.
		On a eu peur de Rodrigo parce qu’il n’a jamais perdu une bataille.
	rocbo.lautre.net /spip/article.php3?id_article=122 (2467 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Archdiocese of Valencia
		The latter appointed Rodrigo de Borja (Alexander VI) to the See of Valencia; Rodrigo obtained from Innocent VIII the rank of metropolitan for his see (1492) and, after he was raised to the papacy, confirmed this decree.
		Cesar Borgia bore the title of Archbishop of Valencia, and was succeeded by Juan de Borja y Llansol, Pedro Luis de Borja, and Alfonso de Aragón, illegitimate son of Ferdinand the Catholic and also Archbishop of Saragossa (1512-20).
		Bishop Vidal de Blanes built the magnificent chapter hall, and Jaime de Aragón added the tower, called "Miguelete" because it was blessed on St. Michael's day (1418), which is about 166 feet high and finished at the top with a belfry.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15251b.htm (1799 words)

	Biografía - El Cid Campeador. Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar
		Se educó junto al infante Sancho de Castilla, quien le dio el cargo de alférez de la milicia real al ser nombrado rey bajo el título de Sancho II, y a las órdenes del cual se enfrentó a Sancho IV de Navarra.
		En virtud de su cargo, hizo jurar al rey Alfonso VI (1072, Santa Gadea) que no era responsable de la muerte de su hermano, Sancho II, lo que le provocó la enemistad con el monarca.
		En esta ocasión se puso al servicio del rey musulmán de Valencia, logrando derrotar y apresar al conde de Barcelona Berenguer Ramón II en 1090.
	www.artehistoria.com /historia/personajes/5188.htm (436 words)

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