Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, known as El Cid Campeador (c. 1043-1099). Castilian nobleman, knighted by the Infante Sancho. He took part in the battles of Llantada and Golpejera against Alfonso VI, and in the Siege of Zamora. Death of El Cid Campeador (July 10, 1099). Engraving by Antonio Roca. Las Glorias Nacionales. Volume II, Madrid-Barcelona edition, 1853.

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