Ballads and poems further promulgated unverifiable events from El Cid’s life. According to one famous legend, the mortally wounded Rodrigo ordered that his corpse should be strapped onto his ...

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Ruy Díaz de Vivar is a Young page who loyally serves his master, Sancho, the future King of León and Castile. While he fights to come out on top in the Court thanks to his natural talent with a ...

Rodrigo's life as a child was a noble and happy one, he entered school at a young age. Often he went on adventures with his best friend Sancho and often visited his beloved one Jimena, the ...

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, whom History knows as El Cid Campeador, is an essential figure to understand the Middle Ages. His legend has endured throughout the centuries to become a myth. In this ...