Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar “el Cid”

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)