Jimena Díaz

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1113.

Place of Death: San Pedro de Cardeña (Burgos).

The date and place are given by Martínez Díez (DBe).

Relationships

Father: Diego Fernández de Oviedo.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 410).

Mother: Cristina Fernández.

This relationship is given by Salazar y Acha (p. 410). Salazar Acha (2021, p. 72) argues that Cristina was married to Count Diego Fernández, and the daughter of Count Alfonso Ordóñez and Countess Fronilde, and that Count Alfonso was the son of Ordóño Ramírez and Cristinia Vermúdez, the daughter of Vermudo II. This suggestion was also made by Todd Farmerie in soc.genealogy,medieval.

Spouse: Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar “el Cid”.

This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (p. 76 ff.) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 410).

Children:

Diego (died 1097).

Cristina married Ramiro Sánchez de Navarra.

María married Ramón Berenguer III “el Grande”, count of Barcelona.

References

Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. El Cid historico. (Barcelona:1999).

Martínez Díez, Gonzalo. "Díaz, Jimena" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. La casa del Rey de Castilla y León en la Edad Media. (Madrid: 2000).

Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. Las dinastías reales de España en la Edad Media. (Real Academia de la Historia, 2021).