Death of El Cid
1099
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar died at Valencia, the city he had carved out as his personal principality between Christian and Muslim Spain. His widow Jimena would hold Valencia for three more years before the Almoravids retook it and she retreated carrying his bones to Castile, where they were interred at Cardena.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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