He is initially exiled by Alfonso VI, but by the end his daughters marry the princes of Aragon and Navarre, beginning his nation's unification.
A play about this figure names his father Diègue (dee-EGG) and sees him in love with Chimène (she-MEN); that play is by Pierre Corneille and inspired a Massenet (mass-uh-NAY) opera. In one section of the epic poem that is the source for this figure, the princes of Carrión tie their wives to trees, and earlier he fights the Moorish king of Zaragoza and conquers Valencia. He is initially exiled by Alfonso VI, but by the end his daughters marry the princes of Aragon and Navarre, beginning his nation's unification. For 10 points, name this Spanish epic hero.
A play about this figure names his father Diègue (dee-EGG) and sees him in love with Chimène (she-MEN); that play is by Pierre Corneille and inspired a Massenet (mass-uh-NAY) opera.
{El Cid} [or Le {Cid}; or The Lay of the {Cid}; or {El Cantar} de {Mio Cid}; or The {Song} of {My Lord}]