Chimene

Chimène Diaz or Ximene , wife of the Cid, was girl of the count Lozano de Gormaz, resulting from kings de Léon.

Biography

After having pushed back the Almoravides of Youssef Ibn Tachfin in 1093, the Cid becomes king of Valence and Chimène sits at its sides. Her husband dies in 1099, and Chimène, from now on mother-in-law of the count Bérenger of Barcelona, savage enemy of Cid, then controls quietly the kingdom valencian. Almoravides return however in 1102. Despite everything its efforts (the legend wants that it placed the body of her late husband on his Bavieca horse, and its Tizona sword would have put to him in the hand, which is of course impossible, Cid having already died since 3 years with the return of Berber), it cannot defend well a long time the city which fall under the cut from Berber and of Youssef Ibn Tachfin.

The role which Corneille in lends to him Cid is due only to the imagination of the poet.

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