Also known as el Campeador. The subject of the poem el Cantar de mio Cid and the national hero of Spain.
Events
Date of Birth: probably about 1048 or shortly after.
Place of Birth: Vivar, near Burgos.
Martínez Díez (pp. 31-32) argues for this date. Estimates have varied from 1043 to 1054.
Date of Death: 10 July 1099.
Place of Death: Valencia.
The date and place are given by Martínez Díez (p. 395 ff.) and by Reilly (p. 294).
Place of Burial: San Pedro de Cardeña.
The place is given by Martínez Díez (p. 408 ff.).
Relationships
Father: Diego Laínez.
This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (pp. 38 ff.) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 410).
Mother: a daughter of Rodrigo Álvarez.
This relationship is given by Martínez Díez (p. 44 ff.) and by Salazar y Acha (p. 410).
Spouse: Jimena Díaz. Married 1074.
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 de Vivar, Rodrigo" in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico (Real Academia de la Historia).
Reilly, Bernard F. The Kingdom of León-Castilla under King Alfonso VI, 1065-1109 (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1988).
Salazar y Acha, Jaime de. La casa del Rey de Castilla y León en la Edad Media. (Madrid: 2000).
Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León, Margarita C. “El linaje del Cid” in Historia Medieval: Anales de la Universidad de Alicante no. 13, 2000-2002 [Online version]
Online Biographies
Díaz de Vivar, Rodrigo (Diccionario Biográfico electrónico; Real Academia de la Historia)