Status Updates From Poema del Cid

Cantar tercero: the Infantes are humiliated after fleeing when a lion breaks out of its “net.” The Cid’s vassals protect him while he sleeps but when he awakens, the lion bows its head to him and is meekly led to its net by the scruff of its neck. The infantes also prove themselves cowards in battle. As revenge, the brothers beat and desert the Cid’s daughters in an oak forest, but their cousin saves them.

El cantar segundo revolves around The Cid’s conquest of Valencia, taking it from King Yusuf of Morocco and installing a Christian bishop Jerome from France. King Alfonso allows his wife and daughters to join him in Valencia after proving vassalage, and Yusuf returns with 50k soldiers but is defeated again. The King finally pardons the Cid, and his daughters are married to the Infantes of Carrion.

El Cantar primero ends with the defeat of the Count of Barcelona. After the victory, The Cid promises to free the count if he will eat and drink wine or else he will never see Christendom again. For three days the count resists, but finally relents when The Cid allows him to ride away with two of his men as well. The count promises not to return for vengeance, he has already lost a year’s worth of booty to the cid

The Cid Ruy Diaz, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, who was knighted at a fortunate hour, is exiled from Castille by King Alfonso of Leon (and now Castille). He makes a deal with some moneylenders, leaves his wife and daughters at a monastery, and sets off. He wins at Castejon de Henares and then he defeats two moorish leaders commanding over 3000 men at Alcocer with 300 of his own. He sends 30 horses to the king with Minaya.

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