Rodrigo Díaz was educated in the royal court of Castile and became the alférez, the chief general, of Alfonso VI, and his most valuable asset in the fight against the Moors.

* Gonzalo Martínez Díez, " El Cid Histórico: Un Estudio Exhaustivo Sobre el Verdadero Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ", Editorial Planeta ( Spain, June 1999 ).

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His son Sancho II of Castile wanted to reunite the kingdom of his father and attacked his brothers, with a young noble at his side: Rodrigo Díaz ( later known as El Cid Campeador ).

* El Cid ( Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ), Castilian nobleman

Both plays were based on the legend of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ( nicknamed ' El Cid Campeador '), a military figure in Medieval Spain.

Peter continued his father's close alliance with the Church and pursued the Reconquista with even greater success, allying with Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, known as El Cid, the ruler of Valencia, against the Almoravids.

* Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar y Mendoza, ( 1466 – 1523 ), 1st Count of the Cid and 1st Marquis of Cenete.

El Cid ( 1961 ) is a historical epic film, a romanticized story of the life of the Christian Castilian knight Don Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, called " El Cid " who in the 11th century fought the North African Almoravides and ultimately contributed to the unification of Spain.

Rodrigo Díaz may refer to:

* Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, commonly known as El Cid

* Rodrigo Díaz de los Cameros, troubadour

* Rodrigo Díaz ( footballer ), Argentine footballer

* Rodrigo Díaz ( swimmer ), Guatemalan who swam at the 2004 Summer Olympics

From the peak's platform the panoramic view includes downtown Rio, Sugarloaf Mountain, the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas ( lake ), Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, Estádio do Maracanã ( Maracanã Stadium ), and several of Rio's favelas.

He was born in Rome — in either 1475 or 1476 — the son of Cardinal Rodrigo de Lanzol y Borgia, soon to become Pope Alexander VI, and his mistress Vannozza dei Cattanei, about whom information is sparse.

Other opponents included Grand Master's proctor Peter Wormditt, Dominic of San Gimignano, John Urbach, Ardecino de Porta of Novara, and Bishop of Ciudad Rodrigo Andrew Escobar.

Álvares and Mattheus were forced to wait until the arrival of Soares ' replacement, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, who successfully sent the embassy on, with Dom Rodrigo de Lima replacing Duarte Galvão.

Sketches of Spain ( 1959 – 1960 ) featured songs by contemporary Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo and also Manuel de Falla, as well as Gil Evans originals with a Spanish flavor.

In 1501, Rodrigo de Bastidas was the first European to explore the Isthmus of Panama sailing along the eastern coast.

The first of them was Rodrigo de Borja (" Borgia " in Italian ), that later became Pope Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), infamous for his alleged corruption and immorality.

The Portuguese had been in the area earlier in early 16th centuries ( in search of the legendary priest-king Prester John ), and although a diplomatic mission from Portugal, led by Rodrigo de Lima, had failed to improve relations between the countries, they responded to the Ethiopian pleas for help and sent a military expedition to their fellow Christians.

Two of Columbus's crewmen during his 1492 journey, Rodrigo de Jerez and Luis de Torres, are said to have encountered tobacco for the first time on the island of Hispaniola, when natives presented them with dry leaves that spread a peculiar fragrance.

* Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as El Cid ( d. 1099 )

She bore him two sons, Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar Mendoza, who was once selected to be the husband of Lucrezia Borgia, and another, who was named Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1st Count of Melito in Italy, not to be confounded with other people mentioned also above and who was the grandfather of the princess of Eboli of the reign of Philip II of Spain ( see Antonio Perez ).

He was Lord of Monzón, a grandson of Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, El Cid, and a descendant by illegitimate line of king García Sánchez III.

Among the earliest such examples is El Cid, whose real name as Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, and whose father's given name was Diego ( Catholic Encyclopedia 1913 ).

Ramiro marched on Graus again in the spring of 1063, but this time the Zaragozans had with them 300 Castilian knights under the infante Sancho the Strong and ( possibly ) his general Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, better known as El Cid.

Their daughter was Jimena, who married Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar, known as " El Cid Campeador ".

* 1982 – Rodrigo Palacio, Argentine footballer

* 1989 – Rodrigo Possebon, Brazilian Footballer

* 1982 – Alex Rodrigo Dias da Costa, Brazilian footballer

* 1986 – Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana were burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.

* 1986 – Rodrigo Defendi, Brazilian footballer

* 1812 – Peninsular War: After a ten day siege, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, orders British soldiers of the Light and third divisions to storm Ciudad Rodrigo.

Lucrezia Borgia (; 18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519 ) was the illegitimate daughter of Rodrigo Borgia, the powerful Renaissance Valencian who later became Pope Alexander VI, and Vannozza dei Cattanei.

* Rodrigo Aravena – bass, backing vocals

* 1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.

* 1901 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer ( d. 1999 )

* November 22 – Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer ( died 1999 )

* December 7 – Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Brazilian Senator and author of the Golden Law ( d. 1889 )

* October 17 – Rodrigo Augusto da Silva, Brazilian Senator and author of the Golden Law ( b. 1833 )

* June 7 – Rodrigo Lopez, Queen Elizabeth's physician ( executed for treason ) ( b. 1525 )

* July 28 – Rodrigo de Bastidas, Spanish conquistador and explorer ( b. c. 1460 )

* July 29 – Santa Marta, the first city in Colombia, is founded by Spanish conqueror Rodrigo de Bastidas.

For a time, Pope Alexander VI ( 1492 – 1503 ), the unsavory Rodrigo Borja, tolerated fra Girolamo ’ s strictures against the Church, but he was moved to anger when Florence declined to join his new Holy League against the French invader and blamed it on Savonarola ’ s pernicious influence.

Though the Casa de Contratación gave permission to Rodrigo de Bastidas ( 1460 – 1527 ) to again conduct an expedition as adelantado to this area, Bastidas explored the coast and discovered the Magdalena River Delta in his first journey from Guajira to the south in 1527, a trip that ended in the Gulf of Urabá, the location of the failed first settlements.

* Rodrigo c. 867 – 870, count of Castile

Later in his reign, he formed a liaison with Urraca Fernández, widow of count Rodrigo Martínez and daughter of Fernando Garcés de Hita, an apparent grandson of García Sánchez III of Navarre, having a daughter Stephanie the Unfortunate ( 1148 – 1180 ), who was killed by her jealous husband, Fernán Ruiz de Castro.

* Andoche Alfred Michel Junot, 3rd Duc d ' Abrantes ( Ciudad Rodrigo, 25 November 1810 – killed in action at Brescia, 19 July 1859 ), married firstly on 2 April 1845 Marie Céline Elise Lepic ( 9 October 1824 – 6 June 1847 ), and married secondly on 10 January 1853 Marie Louise Léonie Lepic ( 19 July 1829 – 17 August 1868 ), both sisters, daughters of Joachim Lepic, 1st Baron Lepic, and wife Anne-Marguerite Pasquier, and had: