I wouldn’t call him that, El Cid fought for both the Spaniards and the Moors at certain points during his life. He wasn't a saint just a man.

@@Alexander-Craig0530 I would say he was a well respected warlord. Even after he was exiled, his warrior band still followed to the unknown.

One of his daughter did end up living there with her husband if I recall correctly

Seriously? That's great.

A daughter, I think, married a count from Barcelona and the family tree bloomed.

That means you a direct descendant of El CID. We must be related.

I think it is great you know your family history, mine spans many lifetimes and national storylines. I am eternally squired to El Campeador. God Bless.

That is because he only did great things for Spain.

Ricardo da Silva We all know that stop withh the bullshit ty

Well, he was probably Asturian, Leones or Castillian, choose any of those names, they are part of Spain :)

Because it's a part of American history, I didn't put up a fight when I was made to learn Spanish. I learned a lot about Spain's history. El Cid is one my heroes.

He truly was a warrior.

Thank you my friend! Austria is a wonderful place, thanks for commenting.

thank you Maria!

no it wasnt it was nonsense he wasnt loved by islam as they portray he was respected as a fair ruler when he was in charge of valencia but he was always seen as the enemy by moorish spain.......after he went back to the service of alfonso

Real Crusades History Good videos, man. In general, The Crusades were the defense of Christian lands against Jihad Islam. Thanks again for everything that you do to dispel the myths about The Crusades.

Glad to hear it! I haven't done anything on him yet, but I'm planning on it eventually.

Spanish medieval history its even better that GOT... hear the Reconquista videos in this channel.

David Dowdall Cathars were not a threat. The Catholic church are a pagan religion just like Islam

@@alt-monarchist The Catherwoods, etc continute to be snakes. I know it too well. As do the CIA. Who do you think gave the order to kill JFK. Hi, 3 years later.

Cathars going down now.

Sergeant Rock sure he also double dealed with the Moors but I guess the ends justify the means even if it's not your objective

these days he would be shouted down as a racist.... by the loony liberal left :(

@@level98bearhuntingarmor el cid saved mouktadir's live,and he fought to his side against the taifa of toledo,the battle of cabra is an exemple, el cid had many friends muslims because the muslims fought between them and el cid was a genius in battlefield

Rodríguez es un apellido patronímico originario del antiguo reino de León (actual España, donde es uno de los más frecuentes entre su población). Su origen se remonta a la Edad Media, probablemente anterior al siglo XI. Significa hijo de Rodrigo o Rodericus, nombre de origen germánico latinizado como Roderici, Hrod-riks "glorioso-reino" o "rico en gloria"

@@Infanzones Rodrigo or Rodericus are the latinization of Roderick.. Rodrigez means son of Roderick in spanish.

What do you mean by that?

I mean exactly what the question asks.

I mean "depicted-look as if they all would have English accents if they spoke" seems a little subjective thing to say, if you mean because of the art style I would wonder what makes you think that, if you mean by the clothing, well they all wear medieval armor/clothes typical of the era, not particular of england, and if you mean about the looks of the people, basically the nations you mentioned (france, spain and england) are all western european so they have traits in common. Greetings.

They look like that because you have grown watching to many Hollywood movies in which everybody speaks in English and with the plethora of British actors available it was not difficult to find one to play the knight part.

Many were still of visigoth blood, etc. before the later intermingling of Arabic blood as with Italy, etc. As such many were blond haired and fair skinned. As for accents perhaps your impression comes from Hollywood movies who relied on English actors a lot when productions were overseas.

For financial gain. He was always committed to Christian victory, though. When he conquered Valencia, he established it as a Christian city state.

He was committed to his social status improvement, his honor, and why not, in getting wealthy. He wasn't pursuing any anti-muslim prochristian cause. About Valencia, he was Christian, so the logical thing is to establish the ruler’s religion as the official religion. That’s it.

Indeed we did an interview with him.

You call him El Cid, his title was given to him by the muslims who loved living with him, they called him Al-Sidi which means master.

Nortenus Hey El Cid was the guy whom was between Christians and Muslims, respected and followed by both They really didnt care much anymore about the old fanatical Moors you speak off, there were others whom would challenge both the Moors and Spain on religious grounds

And England.

Yeah it's only a matter of time when, not if, most of western Europe will be kneeling and groveling under Islam the religion of peace.

What about Viena? lol.

al andalus were all based in christian visigoth culture and the muslims took the credits

"Arabic is the first language" of Christians"?? REALLY?? how about Latin and Visigoth languages? and Celtic.

"First Language" means the language the person speaks best, they may know other languages and these are called second language. The Mozarab (Christians under Muslim rule) may have been more familiar with the Arabic than the language of their Visigothic ancestors. Actually the Mozarab Language (derived from the Arabic musta'rib "those adopt Arab ways') is a Romance Language with many Arab loan words. Mozarab is also usually written in Arab script but sometimes also in Latin script. This obviously have contributed to the development of modern Spanish as some words in Spanish are of Arabic or Berber origin.

Chaoticawesome1 Basque isn't Celtic. They have OWN unrelated language (not like any OTHER European language). Currently in Spain it's Castellano the official language. Franco made that the rule. Arabic isn't any official language anywhere on the peninsula.

The word Cid comes from arabic, meaning lord

No, Cid not sound sith, sound thith.

Except Rodrigo was a Jedi :)

You can also pronunciate his name as it used to sound in old Spanish as Eλ Çyδ (El Tzid)