After a siege of almost a year, he entered the city in June of By now the Cid was one of the most powerful men in Christian Spain, and the conquest of Valencia confirmed his status.
But the loss of Valencia was keenly felt in al-Andalus and by late a large Almoravid force was sent to recover the city. Rather than await a siege, the Cid took the unusual step of sallying out against the approaching Almoravids. Dividing his forces into two parts, each leaving the city by different gates, he succeeded in routing the Almoravids at Cuart de Poblet, just north-west of the city.
It was a victory that resounded far and wide, praised by Christians and lamented by Muslims. We know little of the relationship between Rodrigo and Alfonso following the capture of Valencia. Nevertheless, Alfonso must always have been suspicious of such a powerful figure, one who although still nominally his vassal was in fact ruler of his own fiefdom which he defended successfully against the Almoravids on several occasions.
Rodrigo died in bed, in October , having demonstrated to other Christians that the Almoravids were not invincible. Undoubtedly many took note, too, that a modestly born lower noble had, by his own efforts, succeeded in becoming a man of considerable consequence, so much so that he was able to marry his daughters into royal families.
Alfonso had considered defending the city, but Valencia was far away and he needed his troops to defend his territories inland. After her death, she was buried alongside him. Their remains were later transferred to Burgos and buried in the transept of the cathedral.
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Mexican-American War: Battle of Contreras. The situation was critical for the hero: on the one hand, it was not obliged to accept the offer of the shrewd Al - Qadeer, but, on the other hand, in the case of Spanish attack on the walls, should choose to defend his Lord, which had pledged his word of honor, or not fighting against its origins.
The Almoravid harassment to the capital of the Turia was constant between and , but also the intervention of other powers in the area. Thus, in , the army of the new, Berenguer Ramon II, count of Barcelona besieged Valencia, although the strategy of the Cid to desist from his efforts. On the other hand, Alfonso VI returned to require the services of Rodrigo in Aledo Murcia , part of a futile campaign of conquest of the region. El Cid, knowing that the rupture was ultimately apologized wielding the siege of Berenguer, which contributed to cool all the curious relationship between King and vassal love-hate.
Since then, the Muslim power provoked that the troops of the different Spanish Christian kingdoms not imagine the area freeing the Cid of your heavy burden of honor , until the death of al - Qadir , at the hands of a group of quintacolumnistas related to the Almoravids. In theory, the successor of the deceased Regulus was his son, Yusuf al - Qadi, but in practice was the own Rodrigo who, independently and not obeying to Alfonso VI , took control of the city, far more visible situation following the death of Yusuf in In the five years that the Cid led the city, signed two pacts with the count of Barcelona and the Spanish monarch that guaranteed the protection of the square for the Christian cause in Exchange for aid, reinforcements, and the promise of non-intervention Catalan and Castilian, question that both rulers, fearful both of brother power to the almoravidethey accepted gladly.
According to the same literary source, this defeat which led to the famous Tizona sword, perhaps the tajadora most famous Hispanic medieval, was to stop at the hands of Rodrigo, as picked up the anonymous composer of cidiana gesta vv.
He killed Bucar, alen Sea King, e d'Oro val won to blight, which mill frames. Overcame the wonderful battle e grant. In the following years, el Cid continued with this work of shoes against the Muslim invaders. Back to Valencia, el Cid barely survived a year, embattled between subsidiary loss pain and the ever-expanding koubba siege. The day was June 10, , at the threshold of a new century that, however, would mean the explosion of his legendary aura.
Possibly, this action was the sociological hotbed where the most fabulous legend of Rodrigo was hatched: the beat a battle after his death. It doesn't seem unreasonable for a Christian of the time, in Valencia to die and be buried in Castile was, of course, win an extraordinarily complex battle. Although, officially, chronological segment marks the beginning of cidiana legend, you can still set some historical considerations about their offspring.
In any case, Jimena would not take much to accompany him, died in In this sense, is one of the clearer political legend manipulations and, in particular, of the epic poem, as the author intended, thus, highlighting the value of the small hidalgo above the insidious nobility courtesan, putting at the disposal of the Cid which, perhaps, reality was denied: the possibility of revenge.
What better end for the good Castilian hidalgo? Identical duality received by Muslim chroniclers, one of his many enemies, which did not cease to praise his military capacity, at the time that spent you the most hurtful epithets precisely to serve a God that was not true, statement is that, really, is very similar to the good vassal if oviesse good Lord!
When the monarchy was left without a king, Alfonso VI was called to occupy the thrones of Castile and Galicia. Rodrigo takes the oath to the new monarch and later passed to the service of King Alfonso. Banished by Alfonso due to court intrigues, Rodrigo had to struggle on his own throughout the map of occupied Spain. He became a warrior for one lord or the other, sometimes at odds with Alfonso and some at his side, but always loyal to the crown.
His bravery and skills which were recognized even among his enemies.
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