Want to see a magic trick? Open up CK3, start scheming against your steward and watch as it suddenly becomes 5am play.CrusaderKings.com/JackRackam

Fun fact: El Cid's grandson eventually became king of Navarre, which means every monarch from the house of Bourbon in both France and Spain is a direct descendant of him.

Noooo, you can’t just abruptly end the video with it’s death, when one of the greatest legends about him takes place with his corpse. Supposedly the Almoravids were confident about victory after hearing of his death, but the Valencians put El Cid’s dead body on top of his horse, stiffen by some woods. Seeing the Knight and the Valencians charging towards their armies made the Almoravids loose moral and retreat. Legend, but classic one. Also, Afonso VI, who declared himself Emperor, also deserves an episode of his own.

Ah yes. Not just Cid, but *the* Cid. The only Cid worthy of a definite article!

“He wandered as a knight without a master…” As if the guy’s story wasn’t cool enough he became a gods damned ronin. You know for maximum cinematic appeal.

Jack - "The soldier with dreams of glory had finally gotten his kingdom, he didn't even have to sacrifice all his friends to a bunch of demons to get it" Griffith - Pttttf!

Ah yes, Rodrigo Diaz, “El Cid,” the most video game protagonist to ever live. Dude’s just begging for a Mount and Blade style game to be made about him. Start as but a single warrior, build up a following fighting for a King, then build your own lordship when you get sick of the AI’s incompetence and having to carry them.

"Curse you historical nuance!" And that's why all these historical tales don't end how you expect from general fictional narratives.

Love that Jack is partnering with CK3, Always fun to start playing and realize its now 2 days later.

Missing the most famous legend about him: his dead body placed on the battlements to fool the enemy into retreating. Likely never happened, but still. Oh, and his story is one of the first poems in Spanish we have in full. Quite the long thing.

If anyone if interested, apart from the "Cantar del mio Cid" there is a historic-fiction book by Perez Reverte called Sidi, is a really good book with Cid as the protagonist

I can confirm that this is exactly what it's like playing a paradox game. Start the game at 7pm and next thing you know the sun is rising

My favorite Age of Empires 2 campaign hands down. This is going to be a banger

I love how El Cid is ALWAYS smirking.

First documentary on El Cid to comment on his dislike for his men spending too much time playing Crusader Kings 3. 9/10.

The funny think about El Cid even though the Spanish call him a national hero he fought Christian as much as muslims.

Speaking of movies, there is an old 1960s Charlton Heston flick about him, where Heston plays the guy. It’s been literally more than 3 decades since I’ve seen it, so I can’t comment on it’s quality, but I do remember the badass ending where he dies in the siege and his last orders are to strap his dead body to a horse so he can lead his men one last time to rout the enemy.

In high school, I had to do a project and, having played Age of Empires 2 a LOT (including and especially El Cid's campaign), I chose El Cid. Loved it.

I mostly know this guy from Civilization VI, where he is one of the best great generals in the game

"I wanted to make this whole episode into a Berserk parallel" Oh God-Hand, this is going to end very, very badly. Edit: So that was a lie.

Actually the most accurate depiction of ck3, so many days lost

El Cid! as someone from Valencia this guy is a big deal, with statues and all that jazz

El Cid was like a Mount and Blade player character stuck in real life.

A Jack Rackam video? About one of my home country's idolized historical figures? Let's goooo

Fun fact: Champion in Spanish is campeón, but el Cid was a "Campeador", which is a very unused word nowadays or either it's old Spanish. So to us, calling someone a "campeador" is like calling someone a "championist"

This man's entire life sounds like a mount and blade playthrough

Man 1066 was an eventful year for the Medieval world.

El Cid Campeador, The Lord Champion, Prince of Valencia, and a mercenary with extra steps.

In a DnD campaigne when managed to befriend a villain named Cyanwrath. He eventually became a trusted frontline fighter who was instrumental in the final battle. He nickname was "Cid" and our running joke was that he would enter a room and say "I am... CID!".

Ah yes, the lord of the rebel settlement in Iberia, in Medieval 2.

I loved the El Cid missions in Age of Empires II!

I think this is the third video today about Al-Andolus with an ad about this game in it.

Kind of sad you didn’t mention the legend that during the siege he died in his wife dressed his body up and propped up body on his horse to keep the defenders moral up. True its in likelihood a total fabrication to make him sounds more badass for his fans but the fact the story exists sounds cool.

2:38 that's actually Abd al-Rahman III, who, fun fact, was naturally blond and dyed his hair black, a la Giants relief pitcher Brian Wilson.

6:43 Aah yes, Count Jaher ta'Diranhriá of Barcelona, known for his pointy ears and bloody conquest of Bulwar, Rahen, Dameria and Haless Someone's a fan of Anbennar I see

Another great/prominent figure a bit before El Cid was Almanzor he was a genius military strategist and was extremely influential within the peninsula and when the Caliph died he took over and instated a type of dictatorship that lasted 30ish years and a few after his death then the caliphate turned into the taifas(that are in this video)

I would’ve thought that the sponsorship was incredibly cringey if I hadn’t been in that same exact situation. For those of you who haven’t bought Crusader Kings, you owe it to yourselves to get it. It is sincerely one of the best and most addicting games I’ve ever played.

Another spanish hero waiting for a video is Admiral Blas de Lezo, aka El Medio Hombre (the half man, because he was missing an eye, and arm and a leg), quite famous for his based af comments (when questioned on how he kept getting wounded every battle (due to his sheer apparent lack of self preservation) he answered he took pride in knowing he left a part of himself on every battle. And when he learned of muslims praying to mecca he retorted that all spaniards should piss staring at london), also fought against pirates actually so it might be right up your alley, tho what he's most famous for is just how thoroughly he humiliated the British Grenadeers. I mean his name's still literally banned from official UK documents. We're talking THAT level of humiliation.

I just love it whenever you use CK3 characters

4:47 There is actually a quite new series in Amazon of the Cid adventures "El Cid" with the actor of Denver as the protagonist

Ha! The doobly-doo! I got that reference!

I love how he sounds like he's trying to summon El Cid like he's his persona or some sort of demon from the Megami Tensei series

Glory for Berserk!!!!!!

The Cid my favorite age of empires campaign I remember playing that on the age of conquerors disc haha man what a cool guy

He literally was just playing Mount and Blade in real life.

The Master ref from Dr Who further proves why this channel is amazing and criminally underrated

Maybe do a story about michiel de Ruyter. He was a dutch admiral who did some wacky stuff you could find in a Disney movie.

Basically, if the god hands had made sure to give Griffin Gut's combat prowess through their subtly manipulation of causality, El Cid is the result.

Love the Vlog Brothers reference to the doobly-doo (on top of your channel and all your videos)!

You have some of the best ads in town, love how you tie em into the vid

This channel is just pure gold!

The fact that you were so freakin accurate with crusader kings made me almost crash the like button ;D

The crusader kings add opened while I was right about to open the game. Jack, sir, you got me addicted to crack.

Nice, thanks Jack!

A CK3 ad done gloriously. I want to see you get sponsored by Life itself lol

To be fair, El Cid probably saw all the backstabbing and thought, “Well, if you can’t beat them, join them.”

Happy 250k!!!

I really loooove these videos...no body does history like Jack!

Great video, awesome topic! But I'm stil slightly disappointed by the lack of mention to "Urraca, 'the Spider '", sister of both Alfonso and Sancho (and said to have been her own brother's lover), supposedly frenemy of El Cid and ultimately the protector of his widow. Also the one kind of pulling the strings between Alfonso's daughters just for s**** and giggles, which led to the creation of Portugal. Alas, leave it to Portuguese hiatorians to have a nation that starts with decades of intrigue involving three princesses vying for power and yet treat it as a preamble and put them all on the footnotes while talking in exhaustive details about their run-of-the-mill kingly sons who, yes, won, but were like hundreds of other kings in Europe... Oh, Portugal, why do you have to be so... Portuguese?

Wasup homies!! -El Cid probably

That's honestly the best sum up of El Cid's life I've ever seen And I'm Spanish

I can see Alfonso doing the Gurs scream…. “El Ciiiiiidddddd!”

Love your content

I wish you'd do a video on the Umayyad Caliphate. They had DRAMA.

the ck3 ad was too relatable, sometimes I play till I hear the birds chirping.

I'm sorry that image your using for El Cid is amazing!

That ad was a very accurate portrayal of what playing CK3 is like

Alfonso inexplicably starts speaking Italian over the phone.

my only regret is that i already bought the dlc. Fantastic video.

Most accurate sponsorship but I’ve ever seen in a yt vid lmao

Just fell into a wikipedia hole and dug up Mujāhid al-ʿĀmirī. He was an Eastern European slave who was bought by Al-Mansoor, and ended up leading Muslim armies from the shores of his Mediterranean island home.

Thank you KZfaq for not notifying me at all about an upload from a channel I explicitly clicked that dumb bell for...

"No good. I've known too many Spaniards" Wesley

Ah El Cid, takes me back to learning about him from Age of Empires 2

Tip for playing CK3 since the max amount of land you can have is 2 duchies change their succession to be feudal elective and you basically have secured the rest of the game. And land outside of them will be subject to partition however

You did him good, Rackam! You did him good!

chaos is a ladder - El Cid

Everyone loves El Cid

You captured the essence of CK 😣

Lmfaooo “CK3 please play safe, the sun is coming up and your family misses you” 😂😂 that’s too on point!!

Woow new vid!

The moment i saw the video title i was like:El Cid?I have definitely heard of him before,oh it's that guy that joined my court

This has to be one of the best made sponsor introduction ever

Thanks for telling me to play responsibly after I have already played ck3 for over 1500 hours

I've heard the name but never knew the man behind it! Thanks 👍

that ck3 music gets me in the mood

Best. Sponsor ad. Ever.

Could you do a video at some point about the knight William Marshall? I'd be curious to see your take on him. Thanks! BTW, you're totally one of my favorite history channels!

that jab at Griffith

oh lordy that ad was a bit too on point. The teeth certainly haven't let go

You should make a video of William Marshal some day if you want to make more videos about Historical Knights. His life was pretty wild I should say.

Enough, you have troubled me for three blocks now, stranger... I will tell you why a dead man rides through the streets of Valencia

Napoleon , Alexander , Khalid ibn al-walid :- I AM THE GREATEST COMMANDER MANKIND HAS EVER KNOWN . El Cid :- Hold my story .

And not a single Cid Vicious joke.

The last time I was this early, Pompey was busy being an overachiever extraordinaire.

I never knew that it was actually El Cid, who discovered the Canary Islands for Castille.

Ackuhally, plate armor was not invented yet, during the time of El CID .

"Sun is beginning to rise." Haha. I live so far to the North that the sun doesn't even really go away during the night! So technically I'm NOT playing till the sun comes up....

Best representation of a Paradox game I've ever seen.

I felt everything in this video because of how much ck3 I've played.