Editing El Cid (section)

==Wife and children==
[[File:Cronica del muy esforçado cauallero el Cid ruy diaz campeador.gif|thumb|El Cid depicted on the title page of a 16th-century working of his story]]

El Cid married [[Jimena Díaz]], who was said to be part of an aristocratic family from Asturias, in the mid-1070s.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barton |first1=Simon |last2=Fletcher |first2=Richard |title=The World of El Cid |year=2000 |publisher=Manchester University Press |isbn=978-1526112637 |page=90 |url=https://www.manchesterhive.com/view/9781526112637/9781526112637.00013.xml?rskey=bpxyLl&result=2 |access-date=23 April 2019}}</ref> 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 enamoured of her great beauty. El Cid and Jimena had two daughters, Cristina and María, and a son. The latter, [[Diego Rodríguez (Son of El Cid)|Diego Rodríguez]], was killed while fighting against the invading Muslim Almoravids from [[North Africa]] at the [[Battle of Consuegra]] in 1097. El Cid's daughters [[Cristina Rodríguez (noble)|Cristina Rodríguez]] and [[María Rodríguez de Vivar|María]] both married into noble families. Cristina married [[Ramiro Sánchez, Lord of Monzón|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 [[Kingdom of Navarre|Navarre]] as King [[García Ramírez of Navarre|García Ramírez]]. The other daughter, [[María Rodríguez de Vivar|María]] (also known as Sol), is said first to have married a prince of Aragon, presumably the son of [[Peter I of Aragon and Pamplona|Peter I]], and she later married [[Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona|Ramon Berenguer III]], count of [[Barcelona]]. Both the poem and the chronicle may state a previous marriage to the {{ill|infantes de Carrión|es}}; however, these marriages are not a historical fact and are an important element in the construction of the poem.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Girón Alconchel|first1=José Luis|title=Cantar de mio Cid|last2=Pérez Escribano|first2=María Virginia|publisher=Ed. Castalia|year=1995|isbn=84-7039-719-2|location=Madrid|pages=11–50}}</ref>