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Terrified after his crushing defeat, Alfonso recalled El Cid.
It has been shown that El Cid was at court on July 1087; however, what happened after that is unclear.
El Cid returned to Alfonso, but now he had his own plans.
He only stayed a short while and then returned to Zaragoza.
El Cid was content to let the Almoravid armies and the armies of Alfonso fight without his help, even when there was a chance that the armies of Almoravid might defeat Alfonso and take over all of Alfonso's lands.
El Cid chose not to fight because he was hoping that both armies would become weak.
That would make it easier for him to carry out his own plan to become ruler of the Kingdom of Valencia.
========,3,Conquest of Valencia.
Around this time, El Cid, with a combined Christian and Moorish army, began maneuvering in order to create his own fiefdom in the Moorish Mediterranean coastal city of Valencia.
Several obstacles lay in his way.
First was Berenguer Ramon II, who ruled nearby Barcelona.
In May 1090, El Cid defeated and captured Berenguer in the Battle of Tébar (nowadays Pinar de Tévar, near Monroyo, Teruel).
Berenguer was later released and his nephew Ramon Berenguer III married El Cid's youngest daughter Maria to ward against future conflicts.
Along the way to Valencia, El Cid also conquered other towns, many of which were near Valencia, such as El Puig and Quart de Poblet.
El Cid gradually came to have more influence on Valencia, then ruled by Al-Qadir.
In October 1092 an uprising occurred in Valencia inspired by the city's chief judge Ibn Jahhaf and the Almoravids.
El Cid began a siege of Valencia.
A December 1093 attempt to break the siege failed.
By the time the siege ended in May 1094, El Cid had carved out his own principality on the coast of the Mediterranean.
Officially El Cid ruled in the name of Alfonso; in reality, El Cid was fully independent.
The city was both Christian and Muslim, and both Moors and Christians served in the army and as administrators.
========,3,Death.
El Cid and his wife Jimena Díaz lived peacefully in Valencia for five years until the Almoravids besieged the city.
El Cid died on June 10, 1099.
His death was likely a result of the famine and deprivations caused by the siege.
Valencia was captured by Masdali on May 5, 1102 and it did not become a Christian city again for over 125 years.
Jimena fled to Burgos, Castile, in 1101.
She rode into the town with her retinue and the body of El Cid.
Originally buried in Castile in the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña, his body now lies at the center of Burgos Cathedral.
========,3,Defeat.
After his demise, but still during the siege of Valencia, legend holds that Jimena ordered that the corpse of El Cid be fitted with his armour and set on his horse Babieca, to bolster the morale of his troops.
In several variations of the story, the dead Rodrigo and his knights win a thundering charge against Valencia's besiegers, resulting in a war-is-lost-but-battle-is-won catharsis for generations of Christian Spaniards to follow.
It is believed that the legend originated shortly after Jimena entered Burgos, and that it is derived from the manner in which Jimena's procession rode into Burgos, i.e., alongside her deceased husband.
========,2,Warrior and general.
========,3,Battle tactics.
During his campaigns, El Cid often ordered that books by classic Roman and Greek authors on military themes be read aloud to him and his troops, for both entertainment and inspiration before battle.
El Cid's army had a novel approach to planning strategy as well, holding what might be called brainstorming sessions before each battle to discuss tactics.
They frequently used unexpected strategies, engaging in what modern generals would call psychological warfare — waiting for the enemy to be paralyzed with terror and then attacking them suddenly; distracting the enemy with a small group of soldiers, etc.
(El Cid used this distraction in capturing the town of Castejón as depicted in "Cantar de Mio Cid" ("The Song of my Cid").
El Cid accepted or included suggestions from his troops.
In "The Song" the man who served him as his closest adviser was his vassal and kinsman Álvar Fáñez "Minaya" (meaning "My brother", a compound word of Spanish possessive "Mi" (My) and "Anaia", the basque word for "brother"), although the historical Álvar Fáñez remained in Castile with Alfonso VI.
Taken together, these practices imply an educated and intelligent commander who was able to attract and inspire good subordinates, and who would have attracted considerable loyalty from his followers, including those who were not Christian.
It is these qualities, coupled with El Cid's legendary martial abilities, which have fueled his reputation as an outstanding battlefield commander.
========,3,Babieca.
Babieca or Bavieca was El Cid's warhorse.
Several stories exist about El Cid and Babieca.
One well-known legend about El Cid describes how he acquired the stallion.
According to this story, Rodrigo's godfather, Pedro El Grande, was a monk at a Carthusian monastery.
Pedro's coming-of-age gift to El Cid was his pick of a horse from an Andalusian herd.
El Cid picked a horse that his godfather thought was a weak, poor choice, causing the monk to exclaim ""Babieca"!"
Hence, it became the name of El Cid's horse.
Another legend states that in a competition of battle to become King Sancho's "Campeador", or champion, a knight on horseback wished to challenge El Cid.
The King wished a fair fight and gave El Cid his finest horse, Babieca, or Bavieca.
This version says Babieca was raised in the royal stables of Seville and was a highly trained and loyal war horse, not a foolish stallion.
The name in this instance could suggest that the horse came from the Babia region in León, Spain.
In the poem Carmen Campidoctoris, Babieca appears as a gift from "a barbarian" to El Cid, so its name could also be derived from "Barbieca", or "horse of the barbarian".
Regardless, Babieca became a great warhorse, famous to the Christians, feared by El Cid's enemies, and loved by El Cid, who allegedly requested that Babieca be buried with him in the monastery of San Pedro de Cardeña.
His name is mentioned in several tales and historical documents about El Cid, including "The Lay of El Cid".
========,3,Swords.
A weapon traditionally identified as El Cid's sword, Tizona, used to be displayed in the Army Museum (Museo del Ejército) in Toledo.
In 1999, a small sample of the blade underwent metallurgical analysis which confirmed that the blade was made in Moorish Córdoba in the eleventh century and contained amounts of Damascus steel.
In 2007, the Autonomous Community of Castile and León bought the sword for 1.6 million Euros, and it is currently on display at the Museum of Burgos.
El Cid also had a sword called Colada.
========,2,Marriage and family.
El Cid was married in July 1075 to Jimena Díaz, said to have been a kinswoman of King Alfonso.
The "Historia Roderici" calls her a daughter of a Count Diego Fernández de Oviedo.
Tradition states that when El Cid first laid eyes on her, he was enamored by her great beauty.
El Cid and Jimena had two daughters and a son.
The latter, Diego Rodríguez, was killed while fighting against the invading Muslim Almoravids from North Africa at the Battle of Consuegra in 1097.
Like with his own marriage, El Cid would link his family to the royal families of the Iberian peninsula through the marriages of his two daughters.
Cristina wed Ramiro, Lord of Monzón and grandson of García Sánchez III of Navarre.
Her own son, El Cid's grandson, would be elevated to the throne of Navarre as King García Ramírez.
The other daughter, María, is said first to have married a prince of Aragon, presumably the son of Peter I, and she later wed Ramon Berenguer III, count of Barcelona.
========,2,El Cid in literature and music.
The figure of El Cid has been the source for many literary works, beginning with the Cantar del Mio Cid, an epic poem from the 12th century which gives a partly-fictionalized account of his life.
This poem, along with similar later works such as the Mocedades de Rodrigo, contributed to portray El Cid as a chivalric hero of the Reconquista, making him a legendary figure in Spain.
In the early 17th century the Spanish writer Guillén de Castro wrote a play called "Las Mocedades del Cid", on which French playwright Pierre Corneille based one of his most famous tragicomedies, Le Cid.
He was also a popular source of inspiration for Spanish writers of the Romantic period, such as Juan Eugenio Hartzenbusch, who wrote "La Jura de Santa Gadea", or José Zorrilla, who wrote a long poem called "La Leyenda del Cid".
Georges Bizet worked on a "Don Rodrigue" in 1873 that was set aside and never completed.
Jules Massenet wrote in 1885 an opera based on Corneille´s play, also called "Le Cid".
Claude Debussy began work on an opera, "Rodrigue et Chimène", in 1890, which he abandoned as unsuitable for his temperament - orchestrated for performance by Edison Denisov circa 1993.
========,1,preface.
The Eastern Caribbean dollar (symbol: $; code: XCD) is the currency of all seven full members and one associate member of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS).
It has existed since 1965, being the successor to the British West Indies dollar, and it is normally abbreviated with the dollar sign "$" or, alternatively, "EC$" to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies.
The EC$ is subdivided into 100 cents.
It has been pegged to the United States dollar since July 7, 1976, and the exchange rate is US$1 = EC$2.70.
========,2,Circulation.
Six of the states using the EC$ are independent states: Antigua and Barbuda, Dominica, Grenada, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
The other two are British overseas territories: Anguilla and Montserrat.
These states are all members of the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union.
The only OECS associate member not using the Eastern Caribbean dollar as their official currency is the British Virgin Islands.
The British Virgin Islands were always problematic for currency purposes due to their proximity to the Danish West Indies which became the US Virgin Islands in 1917.
Officially, the British Virgin Islands used to use sterling, but in practice the situation was a lot more complicated and involved the circulation of Francs and U.S. dollars.
In 1951, the British Virgin Islands adopted the British West Indies dollar which at that time operated in conjunction with the sterling coinage, and in 1961 they changed over officially to the U.S. dollar, no doubt due to the close proximity of the US Virgin Islands.
British Guiana and Barbados had previously been members of this currency union but withdrew in 1966 and 1972 respectively.
Trinidad and Tobago had been a member of the earlier British West Indies currency union, but withdrew in 1964.
The combined population of the EC$ area is about 613,000 (2014 census and estimates), which is comparable to Montenegro or the American capital city of Washington, D.C..
The combined GDP is 5.46 billion US dollars, which is comparable to Bermuda.
Queen Elizabeth II appears on the banknotes and also on the obverse of the coins.
She is the head of state of all the states and territories using the EC$, except for Dominica.