Editing El Cid (section)

===Origins===
El Cid was born Rodrigo Díaz circa 1043 in [[Vivar del Cid|Vivar]],<ref name="ThackerayFindling2012">{{cite book|author=Tim Watts|editor=Frank W. Thackeray |editor2=John E. Findling|title=Events That Formed the Modern World|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BRl1sWYShpcC&pg=PA19|date= 2012|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-59884-901-1|page=19}}</ref> also known as Castillona de Bivar, a small town about ten kilometers (or six miles) north of [[Burgos]], the capital of [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]]. His father, Diego Laínez, was a [[Noble court|courtier]], [[Bureaucracy|bureaucrat]], and [[cavalry]]man who had fought in several battles. Despite the fact that El Cid's mother's family was aristocratic, in later years, the peasants would consider him one of their own. However, his relatives were not major court officials; documents show that El Cid's paternal grandfather, Laín, confirmed{{vague|date=September 2022}} only five documents of [[Ferdinand I of León and Castile|Ferdinand I]]'s; his maternal grandfather, Rodrigo Álvarez, certified only two of [[Sancho II of León and Castile|Sancho II]]'s; and El Cid's father confirmed only one.{{Citation needed|date=April 2022}}