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Why do all your images of historical Spanish characters look completely non-Hispanic? More like American actors from the Charlton Heston movie. {:o:O:}
i cannot tell you how much i love these vids,, but this one is a pure masterpiece for me thanks so much, i have studied Rodrigo since i was a little boy and have walked the streets of Valencia and Vivar and all about as a US Marine. and this vid just brings back so many good and old cherished memories... I also must say you prove Shelby Foote correct when he said historians could learn something from writers, for writers have a way of telling history in an easy way on the mind and much more interesting. i have read so many transcripts from ancient sources on many historical subjects, but hearing a story teller put all those facts in a poetic manner is so pleasant.
My favourite film as a kid. Lived in Spain for twenty years and married to one, with Spanish children. There is no getting away from the fact this is an epic story. Glad Dan Davis did it as his videos are superb. And Rodrigo deserves it. RIP El Cid, we shall see you again when Spain needs you.
Well it is a good sign when a British youtuber makes such a video about Spain's national hero. Looks like we are overcomming centuries of beef in the most positive and respectful way, by admiring each other's history. Muchas Gracias Dan
I never heard any British people having any beef against Spain or the Spanish at all, personally. British people like Spain and the Spanish, in my experience.
@@DanDavisHistory I mean historically speaking. I am a history teacher and particularly interested in military history. Reading the same book about great naval battles in Spanish and English I found odd things like the Spanish leaving out the Invincible Armada while the British for some reason didn't mentira Lepanto. As for military héroes the Spanish tend to sort of skipp over Nelson while I haven' t seen Blas de Lezo mentioned by the British. True, most of these books are on the older side. Then there was that movie with Cate Blanchet about the Spanish Armada that didn't even reach Spanish Cinemas. We All tend to Focus on our domestic heroes and and downplay the others achievements especially When the were targeted against our ancestors. And there Wasa Lot of that in the 16 and 17 hundrets that left A mark on historians. But I See more and more that that is no longer the case. Another example Drachinifel making videos about British defeats at the hands of the Spanish. It feels like we are getting over the more nationalistic views that tended to impermeate especially military history. As individuals visiting each others countries for decades of course there is no beef. I should have Been more specific on this point as It could bé misunderstood. Thanks for painting that out
Maybe I am in some kind of unconscious hivemind but I was thinking of El Cid today and what a great story it was, out of the blue. Unprompted, since I never really think of El Cid much. And then you post this...
Great video! On another note, it would be so awesome if you could make a video about the incredible sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683, two tremendous turning points in the history of Europe against the Turks.
What a coincidence! I was exploring Spain this past week and came across a novel about El Cid in one of those bus stations. I did not pick it up though, but yes it was in Spanish.
I think this guy is a legend partly because he not only had plenty of victories and against-all-odds success, but several moments where he got to personally stick it to people who underestimated or rejected him. Isn’t that the stuff we all fantasize about? Having a jerk boss who fired you show up to a few years later to a job interview you’re running, and you get to go “Well, well, well…”
El Cid--Always one of my favorites. Saw the movie with Burt Lancaster as a kid and was fascinated. I've read some history articles over the years on his and it only impressed me more. Now you need to do as good a video on Brian Boru.
I've seen you commenting in the fitness yt area, is this an inspiration by ancient Greek philosophers? ;) Also, you'll need to make a video on your fitness status :P
I wonder if he was Iberian, Spanish or Basque ... Amazing Life Journey story. (... and so much we will never know.) It is a true sad idea that women we used as Resources. ☀️ At least the Spanish include their mother's maiden names, particularly those of noted prestige. I expect his name continued through time, since the public held him in such esteem.
Well Dan explained it, Rodrigo Diaz was a Castillian nobleman born in or around the town of Vivar around Burgos in the kingdom of Castille that is why he is known as Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. This info I got from Dan and I trust his research.
Thank you for this interesting video about a legendary hero. I read "El cantar del mío Çid campeador" in the original medieval Spanish more than 30 years ago in grad school. It's good to learn more about the real history of the man himself. (I was in a course on literature rather than history.)
Thanks for watching. It's a wonderful work of literature. I have a duel language edition with the original medieval Spanish on one page with the English translation on the other and it's very interesting to "read" the original alongside it. Its historical accuracy is of course the subject of much academic work but the third part is essentially fiction, with his daughters being kidnapped. But it's such a great read, the dialogue especially is very entertaining.
What an epic and amazing story emerging from low nobility to the king's standard bearer, to banishment in the wilderness to working for enemy to finally the Lord Princeps of Valencia. I wonder if this story was a template for Conan the Barbarian novel?
The man in itself was Epic, in the same decades of the lifespan of others like Harold Godwinson, William of Normandy’s conquest and the last of the Viking kings Harold Hardrada, etc. in the apex of the Medieval World, when these unique warlords were ever on the edge of success and immense fame, or losing it all and death or imprisonments for desserts. That he was never defeated but knew how to turn a losing battle against ominous numbers before opening charge, and take advantage of a winning enemy thin weak spots to bring them down before his troops break off to escape is impressive in any century. He must have known something on the tactical switches of Ancient Roman or Greeks expertise over the 2-3 pony’s tricks with what Medieval battles had become simplified not much more above Germanic or Keltic melee’s. And his men must have been highly disciplined and seasoned even on the face of defeat to don’t break nor faint regardless, maybe too it must have aided them to be under an almost fanatical trust in their Chief resourcefulness, and loyalty to death to their noble lord almost tragical figure of errant knight, centuries before the likes of romantic knights as Don Quixote or Cyrano. But like many have pointed, regardless the next century mixing manipulations of religion and warriors devotions into Crusades for political ends and mundane gains, his Times were less idealist and absolutely pragmatic into dire necessities pressing their World of shifting borders or the rising of elites as the Morabites, the Normans or Cistercians taking over former administrations or executives, without nationalisms or flags established values nor loyalties, which not even kings could keep forever without more interpersonal substance to back it up beyond purses of gold or lands and castles gifted to withhold retainers high or low.
He personally struck praise and fear without any legendary or religion superpowers mythifying him and his deeds which was outstanding by himself without being a Viking, King or Emperor or even general or duke with a whole royal or dukedom forces behind him. His exploits in a sort of no man’s land he found himself and his landless knights evokes the situation of Hannibal during his years stuck in the Italian peninsula, he could not be defeated but he couldn’t capture or bring down all of the government’s of the states he roamed around unmatched and superior as no other before or after. He just didn’t have a larger base and resources backing him from Carthage placed on checkmate after his brothers were killed
Ferdinand 1 of León at 2:39 looks like me right down to the magnificent grey beard. And of course the chain mail sweatshirt. Never leave the castle without it. I wonder if he's an ancestor?
I learned first of El Cid as a young boy from the illustrated chronicle of Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Edition, by the bards of En Semble. I am surprised by the differences between these two records; notably this version drastically shortens Ximena's rule of Valencia, as well as entirely omitting the part of the story where it was El Cid's corpse strapped to his horse that in fact won the siege against the moors. Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed this version - and look forward to your future works. 🛡⚔
@@DanDavisHistory- I was wondering when someone was gonna bring up the post-mortem cavalry ride... I remembered it from the movie. 😅 Always seemed a little macabre to me, even in school. So I am glad to find that he was afforded a peaceful death after all. I like that version much better. 🍻
Great video! Please @DanDavisHistory, bring to us more videos like this talking about these national medieval european figures (for example: Jan Zizka, Skanderbeg, Alfonso Henriques, Brian Boru, Willliam Wallace, The Black Prince, etc. And thanks a lot for the attention!
I had heard the name, but I thought El Cid was a Mexican hero. I don't know why, probably he was mentioned in some Western cowboy movie I watched as a kid. Thanks for this amazing story!
De los sus ojos tan fuertemente llorando, Tornaba la cabeza y estábalos catando. Vio puertas abiertas y postigos sin candados, Alcándaras vacías, sin pieles y sin mantos, Y sin halcones y sin azores mudados. Suspiró mío Cid pues tenía muy grandes cuidados. Habló mío Cid, bien y tan mesurado: -¡Gracias a ti, señor padre, que estás en alto! -¡Esto me han vuelto mis enemigos malos!
I didn't call him that, it was Henry the Young King and Stephen Langton the archbishop of Canterbury who called him that. But under that video are a hundred comments saying actually it's El Cid who's the greatest knight. There's a few men who claim that title. This video is called the greatest knight of Spain.
Great presentation and wonderful castle views! Just one thing: an abundance of "rice and wheat" in Valencia's countryside: are you sure rice was cultivated in Europe in the 11th century? Seems a teeny tiny precocious to me.
Why do all your images of historical Spanish characters look completely non-Hispanic? More like American actors from the Charlton Heston movie. {:o:O:}
Rodríguez was likely a descendant of Visigoths who have a long migration from northern Europe would have looked Nord/ Germanic and Celtic/Iberian??. The goths features are predictable so are the Celtic. I can't give a guess about the Iberian.
It's Ok, but please, the background guitar music...Spain is not Andalusia. Great part of her was Celtic! In Asturies bagpipes are played...and Castilian music has nothing to do with Andalusian guitar music. The Medieval one you played was good, though.Thanks for this video. May I suggest the Kingdom of Asturies or the Wars that Ástures and Cántabros held against Rome? It took 20 years to the strongest empire to get into our Celtic land, they had to send their best legione, generals and even Augustus came himself.Our land contained the most important gold reserves in Europe. Invading the Iberian Peninsula was really tough, 200 years!
You seem confused. He was knighted, so he was a knight. He was a vassal to his lords King Ferdinand, King Sancho, and King Alfonso. When banished by the King, for five years he served Al-Muqtadir rather than be an outlaw.
Spain as a concept and Spanish people as a culture didn't exist yet at this stage of the reconquista (in fact the idea of Spain didn't develop until a good while after the reconquista ended). During El Cid's lifetime Hispania/Iberia was little more than a geographic concept, back then people were instead much more closely tied to their religion, the language they spoke or (in some cases) the specific area they came from. In fact this was also the case on the "other side" since very often Moors/Arabs also existed alongsides people like Berbers and European converts. The most accurate framing then is Christians Vs Muslims, with the addendum that it wasn't rare for Christians to fight each other, for Muslims to fight each other, or even for interfaith alliances to occur.
Not even going to watch the video. El Cid was only a mercenary, a warlord and hero to nobody. He is VERY relevant because a poem wrote about him 'Cantar de mio Cid' is one of the basic works in castilian language (nowadays spanish). Appart from that, he is only a figure for the far-right. Disliked and unsuscribed.
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another belter, much appreciated -thank you.
also, the Js go H in mexican i think...
Why do all your images of historical Spanish characters look completely non-Hispanic? More like American actors from the Charlton Heston movie.
{:o:O:}
El cid was not a crusader. So he did not wear the crusader uniform
When will the next Godborn book be released?
i cannot tell you how much i love these vids,, but this one is a pure masterpiece for me thanks so much, i have studied Rodrigo since i was a little boy and have walked the streets of Valencia and Vivar and all about as a US Marine. and this vid just brings back so many good and old cherished memories... I also must say you prove Shelby Foote correct when he said historians could learn something from writers, for writers have a way of telling history in an easy way on the mind and much more interesting. i have read so many transcripts from ancient sources on many historical subjects, but hearing a story teller put all those facts in a poetic manner is so pleasant.
Thank you so much, that's a wonderful comment. Made my day.
My favourite film as a kid. Lived in Spain for twenty years and married to one, with Spanish children. There is no getting away from the fact this is an epic story. Glad Dan Davis did it as his videos are superb. And Rodrigo deserves it. RIP El Cid, we shall see you again when Spain needs you.
Refreshed memories of playing El Cid Compeadur campaign in AoE as a kid on the family 🖥️
I’d been feeling the “Dan Davis tingle” like there would be a new video out soon! Glad to hear your rosing rendition of this iconic man’s story
That reminds me the El Cid the Movie from 1960s...
Wasn't that the one where he said "Soylent reconquista is people"?
@@jytte-hilden
I can NOT remember the exact lines from the movie.
I remember some specific scenes though.
Great video. I love the attention you gave to the maps and all the persons' infocards
Thank you very much, glad you liked it.
Well it is a good sign when a British youtuber makes such a video about Spain's national hero. Looks like we are overcomming centuries of beef in the most positive and respectful way, by admiring each other's history. Muchas Gracias Dan
I never heard any British people having any beef against Spain or the Spanish at all, personally. British people like Spain and the Spanish, in my experience.
@@DanDavisHistory I mean historically speaking. I am a history teacher and particularly interested in military history. Reading the same book about great naval battles in Spanish and English I found odd things like the Spanish leaving out the Invincible Armada while the British for some reason didn't mentira Lepanto. As for military héroes the Spanish tend to sort of skipp over Nelson while I haven' t seen Blas de Lezo mentioned by the British. True, most of these books are on the older side. Then there was that movie with Cate Blanchet about the Spanish Armada that didn't even reach Spanish Cinemas. We All tend to Focus on our domestic heroes and and downplay the others achievements especially When the were targeted against our ancestors. And there Wasa Lot of that in the 16 and 17 hundrets that left A mark on historians. But I See more and more that that is no longer the case. Another example Drachinifel making videos about British defeats at the hands of the Spanish. It feels like we are getting over the more nationalistic views that tended to impermeate especially military history.
As individuals visiting each others countries for decades of course there is no beef. I should have Been more specific on this point as It could bé misunderstood. Thanks for painting that out
To say it in gothic from Sweden... Ik þukkia þu ist batists Dan...!
@@DanDavisHistory That's almost hard to believe
@@jackmorrison5272 So true, great examples, thank you.
Maybe I am in some kind of unconscious hivemind but I was thinking of El Cid today and what a great story it was, out of the blue. Unprompted, since I never really think of El Cid much. And then you post this...
Great video! On another note, it would be so awesome if you could make a video about the incredible sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683, two tremendous turning points in the history of Europe against the Turks.
El Cid with Charlton Heston…one of my favourite movies as a boy!
Very informative....thank you. I never knew anything about El Cid before this. What an incredible life of ups and downs!
Europe needs many El CID’s right now …
In front of my eyes I always saw the movie "El Cid" and the corresponding scenes while watching your video.
I saw the movie El Cid when I was young, I didn't know until today he was real. 😊
Another amazing video Dan. We appreciate all the work that you put into these lessons.
A fitting production for an extraordinary warrior and leader. Well done Dan. Definitely worth the wait.
Thanks Ben much appreciated.
What a coincidence! I was exploring Spain this past week and came across a novel about El Cid in one of those bus stations.
I did not pick it up though, but yes it was in Spanish.
Just in time for El CId's addition in the CK3 Roads to Power expansion! Actually thought it was sponsored at first, but a nice coincidence anyway :)
It's about time. I love these videos
Some of the best content available today
Thank you so much, very generous of you.
Thank you Mr. Davis! I've always been fascinated by this era in history and the characters who inhabited it.
Thank you for watching. Me too.
Thanks for another great story⚔️👌
Your narration is on point with this one
Well done, Thank You.
I think this guy is a legend partly because he not only had plenty of victories and against-all-odds success, but several moments where he got to personally stick it to people who underestimated or rejected him. Isn’t that the stuff we all fantasize about? Having a jerk boss who fired you show up to a few years later to a job interview you’re running, and you get to go “Well, well, well…”
Portugals National newspaper is called: “Reconquista “. This period is still alive to the people.
I love your content, Dan. As usual, amazing,
El Cid--Always one of my favorites. Saw the movie with Burt Lancaster as a kid and was fascinated. I've read some history articles over the years on his and it only impressed me more. Now you need to do as good a video on Brian Boru.
Woohoo! I’ve been hoping for a Dan Davis history video!!
Oooh .. new video! Yay! Happy Saturday 😁
And it’s a long one too!
Thanks Dan!
*Mr. Davis. When will your next book in the brilliant Thunderer-series be ready?*
Man I'm happy to see a video from the channel had me worried he quit.
It's been 4 weeks
@@DanDavisHistory Oh I have been out of the loop for awhile sorry lol.
Great video.
And yes, Charlton Heston played him in the El Cid epic......
Need a tv series about this guy.
There is one!
@@DanDavisHistoryis it any good?
There is a Spanish series called El Cid on Amazon about his life. It hasn't been concluded, only two seasons with 5 episodes each have been released.
It's awful.
Is it worth watching? I've been meaning to get around to it but haven't yet
@@damianm4727 It's not bad. Kind of GOTesque
Thank you
Thanks mate i remember the Heston film
I played his campaign in the expansion for Age of Empires 2 back in the day as a kid. 👍
Excellent video.
Thank you.
I've seen you commenting in the fitness yt area, is this an inspiration by ancient Greek philosophers? ;) Also, you'll need to make a video on your fitness status :P
I wonder if he was Iberian, Spanish or Basque ...
Amazing Life Journey story. (... and so much we will never know.)
It is a true sad idea that women we used as Resources. ☀️ At least the Spanish include their mother's maiden names, particularly those of noted prestige.
I expect his name continued through time, since the public held him in such esteem.
Well Dan explained it, Rodrigo Diaz was a Castillian nobleman born in or around the town of Vivar around Burgos in the kingdom of Castille that is why he is known as Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar. This info I got from Dan and I trust his research.
Dan Davis, always a pleasure
Thank you for this interesting video about a legendary hero. I read "El cantar del mío Çid campeador" in the original medieval Spanish more than 30 years ago in grad school. It's good to learn more about the real history of the man himself. (I was in a course on literature rather than history.)
Thanks for watching. It's a wonderful work of literature. I have a duel language edition with the original medieval Spanish on one page with the English translation on the other and it's very interesting to "read" the original alongside it. Its historical accuracy is of course the subject of much academic work but the third part is essentially fiction, with his daughters being kidnapped. But it's such a great read, the dialogue especially is very entertaining.
Awesome, let's go.
What an epic and amazing story emerging from low nobility to the king's standard bearer, to banishment in the wilderness to working for enemy to finally the Lord Princeps of Valencia. I wonder if this story was a template for Conan the Barbarian novel?
The man in itself was Epic, in the same decades of the lifespan of others like Harold Godwinson, William of Normandy’s conquest and the last of the Viking kings Harold Hardrada, etc. in the apex of the Medieval World, when these unique warlords were ever on the edge of success and immense fame, or losing it all and death or imprisonments for desserts. That he was never defeated but knew how to turn a losing battle against ominous numbers before opening charge, and take advantage of a winning enemy thin weak spots to bring them down before his troops break off to escape is impressive in any century. He must have known something on the tactical switches of Ancient Roman or Greeks expertise over the 2-3 pony’s tricks with what Medieval battles had become simplified not much more above Germanic or Keltic melee’s. And his men must have been highly disciplined and seasoned even on the face of defeat to don’t break nor faint regardless, maybe too it must have aided them to be under an almost fanatical trust in their Chief resourcefulness, and loyalty to death to their noble lord almost tragical figure of errant knight, centuries before the likes of romantic knights as Don Quixote or Cyrano. But like many have pointed, regardless the next century mixing manipulations of religion and warriors devotions into Crusades for political ends and mundane gains, his Times were less idealist and absolutely pragmatic into dire necessities pressing their World of shifting borders or the rising of elites as the Morabites, the Normans or Cistercians taking over former administrations or executives, without nationalisms or flags established values nor loyalties, which not even kings could keep forever without more interpersonal substance to back it up beyond purses of gold or lands and castles gifted to withhold retainers high or low.
He personally struck praise and fear without any legendary or religion superpowers mythifying him and his deeds which was outstanding by himself without being a Viking, King or Emperor or even general or duke with a whole royal or dukedom forces behind him. His exploits in a sort of no man’s land he found himself and his landless knights evokes the situation of Hannibal during his years stuck in the Italian peninsula, he could not be defeated but he couldn’t capture or bring down all of the government’s of the states he roamed around unmatched and superior as no other before or after. He just didn’t have a larger base and resources backing him from Carthage placed on checkmate after his brothers were killed
Dan Davis plays Crusader Kings confirmed
Awww yeah a Rodrigo vid.
Ferdinand 1 of León at 2:39 looks like me right down to the magnificent grey beard.
And of course the chain mail sweatshirt. Never leave the castle without it.
I wonder if he's an ancestor?
I learned first of El Cid as a young boy from the illustrated chronicle of Age of Empires II: The Conquerors Edition, by the bards of En Semble.
I am surprised by the differences between these two records; notably this version drastically shortens Ximena's rule of Valencia, as well as entirely omitting the part of the story where it was El Cid's corpse strapped to his horse that in fact won the siege against the moors.
Nevertheless, I thoroughly enjoyed this version - and look forward to your future works. 🛡⚔
I said Jimena ruled for two years, that's how long she ruled for. Also the corpse on the horse is a later legend.
@DanDavisHistory
I guess I'll have to be much more critical of videogame cutscenes from here on out! 😉
@@DanDavisHistory- I was wondering when someone was gonna bring up the post-mortem cavalry ride... I remembered it from the movie. 😅
Always seemed a little macabre to me, even in school. So I am glad to find that he was afforded a peaceful death after all. I like that version much better. 🍻
Charisma is eternal.
He most likely had some visigothic ancestry.
You should do Götz von Berlichingen next. He has his own Autobiography, so research shouldn't be too hard.
Only El Cid can conquer my insomnia.
what a chad 🤩
best bios out there
Olé!
Great video! Please @DanDavisHistory, bring to us more videos like this talking about these national medieval european figures (for example: Jan Zizka, Skanderbeg, Alfonso Henriques, Brian Boru, Willliam Wallace, The Black Prince, etc. And thanks a lot for the attention!
The good old days when all were loyal to their own people and faith over everything
Maybe youll be interested in another medieval King, Sancho the Strong of Navarra
Why you changed the title of the video from "the most famous knight in history" to "greates knight of spain"?
I had heard the name, but I thought El Cid was a Mexican hero. I don't know why, probably he was mentioned in some Western cowboy movie I watched as a kid.
Thanks for this amazing story!
Based!🥰
Al Sayyid!
De los sus ojos tan fuertemente llorando,
Tornaba la cabeza y estábalos catando.
Vio puertas abiertas y postigos sin candados,
Alcándaras vacías, sin pieles y sin mantos,
Y sin halcones y sin azores mudados.
Suspiró mío Cid pues tenía muy grandes cuidados.
Habló mío Cid, bien y tan mesurado:
-¡Gracias a ti, señor padre, que estás en alto!
-¡Esto me han vuelto mis enemigos malos!
Yes yes yes😁
William Marshall.
Have you seen my William Marshal documentary?
@@DanDavisHistory yes excellent thanks
Is that poem on the Cid in Castillan or in Latin?
The poem is in Castilian. The Historia Roderici is in Latin.
BURGOS MENCIONADO AAAA
Comment for the algorithm gods!
great men can be revealed through the quality of their hair
Sorry, but didnt you say William Marshall was the greatest knight that ever lived?
Regardless, i love your content
I didn't call him that, it was Henry the Young King and Stephen Langton the archbishop of Canterbury who called him that. But under that video are a hundred comments saying actually it's El Cid who's the greatest knight. There's a few men who claim that title. This video is called the greatest knight of Spain.
Great presentation and wonderful castle views! Just one thing: an abundance of "rice and wheat" in Valencia's countryside: are you sure rice was cultivated in Europe in the 11th century? Seems a teeny tiny precocious to me.
Thank you. Yes they grew rice. Rice was introduced to Iberia by the 8th century, centuries before this story.
@@DanDavisHistory Good thing to know. Asia was closer to Europe than one might have thought.
Ain't got shit on William Marshal
who made the art in the thumbnail?
compulsory flamenco music, boring
Why do all your images of historical Spanish characters look completely non-Hispanic? More like American actors from the Charlton Heston movie.
{:o:O:}
Rodríguez was likely a descendant of Visigoths who have a long migration from northern Europe would have looked Nord/ Germanic and Celtic/Iberian??. The goths features are predictable so are the Celtic. I can't give a guess about the Iberian.
el cid wasnt even the best knight in Iberia
I'd be interested to know who would be your candidate?
It's Ok, but please, the background guitar music...Spain is not Andalusia. Great part of her was Celtic! In Asturies bagpipes are played...and Castilian music has nothing to do with Andalusian guitar music. The Medieval one you played was good, though.Thanks for this video. May I suggest the Kingdom of Asturies or the Wars that Ástures and Cántabros held against Rome? It took 20 years to the strongest empire to get into our Celtic land, they had to send their best legione, generals and even Augustus came himself.Our land contained the most important gold reserves in Europe. Invading the Iberian Peninsula was really tough, 200 years!
tradition of tribal warfare in the name of a monotheistic supreme being
He was a mercenary why call him a knight!!!!
You seem confused. He was knighted, so he was a knight. He was a vassal to his lords King Ferdinand, King Sancho, and King Alfonso. When banished by the King, for five years he served Al-Muqtadir rather than be an outlaw.
He wasn't just a knight but a legend.
Why is your framing Christian vs. Moorish and not Spanish vs. Moorish?
Because it wasn't just the Spanish who fought against the Moors.
Because Spain wasn’t a thing back then. They had the feudel system.
What a silly question.
Spain as a concept and Spanish people as a culture didn't exist yet at this stage of the reconquista (in fact the idea of Spain didn't develop until a good while after the reconquista ended).
During El Cid's lifetime Hispania/Iberia was little more than a geographic concept, back then people were instead much more closely tied to their religion, the language they spoke or (in some cases) the specific area they came from.
In fact this was also the case on the "other side" since very often Moors/Arabs also existed alongsides people like Berbers and European converts.
The most accurate framing then is Christians Vs Muslims, with the addendum that it wasn't rare for Christians to fight each other, for Muslims to fight each other, or even for interfaith alliances to occur.
rightwing neo-inquisitor confirmed. lmao
Not even going to watch the video.
El Cid was only a mercenary, a warlord and hero to nobody.
He is VERY relevant because a poem wrote about him 'Cantar de mio Cid' is one of the basic works in castilian language (nowadays spanish).
Appart from that, he is only a figure for the far-right.
Disliked and unsuscribed.
Cuck
I saw your negative comment on Twitter, and subscribed. Thank you for helping me find this excellent video through your own stupidity
don't let the door hit you on the way out
But Penelope Cruz is Spain's greatest ever hero.
Yes I won't argue against that.