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El Cid (1043?-99)
Also known as El Cid Campeador.
The most notable military leader of 11th-century Christian Spain.
El Cid's 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. This poem made him a national hero in the centuries-long fight against Muslim control of Spain.
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.
El Cid offered his services to the Muslim rulers of Saragossa, under whom he enhanced his reputation as a general through a series of brilliant exploits. About 1087 he began complicated political and military maneuvering that resulted in his conquest, in 1094, of the kingdom of Valencia, which he virtually ruled until his death in 1099.
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