| Show M v t t t c t f I to tH I No OF HISTORY t Writ fur tor UN the De I t by br rt I C CO I TilE TiIE CullA CIDA Hero Turned Robber H Ut It tUft 1101 t I 1 A y young man Id clad In h I I r rode rod wl wearily back It to tn th the a army on one dy day In the hut r butt hul of th the eleventh century Down Downa a double II tilts of bann trumpets sail II cheering men h he mad ht hi way wa t 01 the a of hl I ilI while II the air vibrated to tn bout lIouta of lei RI IW The Ute the shunt taint The TIta youth routh was wa son on f I a noble of 01 civil Wl wee bad flamed liP up between the petty Spanish kill of C slid Lees t o the bravest knight ot of Caudle had accepted fine the most famous of r the tit len aln Th The oJ had met I la to In Inh h nH et their and after A struggle tru Rudrigo kid slain n III the f foe For or UI ibis lie he w wen Ute the title Uti of Df by lie he Is still t tr r Spain to t thole W day Wile Walt em rite vast armed noli camp amp and was torn by In r rr r ll warfare Anna ere the narrow strait from northern Africa bed d nned nd till the I countless Moors wits w bad settled I ii Spanish 1 where a their religion t they yearly anew w mare and until th the original were wre threatened with tit thin rate rat ratI rater r I h evey 11 T Then In tit tb early year to of t the eleventh century hr I of nf Spat Spain made ad t the 0 to their Ins In n eing power But he died before lie he muM this II III kl kingdom w win spill UP amon among his I v af children who r Ie lay layh h their while they quarreled let aid lid fought among tn then 1 Meantime Ute the various 1 kIn king 0 or e chiefs who had divided Iee the nil or of a urge I part pan of 01 Spain wr wore aIm at cl 1 war with leek elt other as aswell well as with the It w was at th this crile Ut the Cid I Seat loomed up as aa a Ague ft n history Dias Md Idy drawn all II eyes t to him b by a which has baa lIlt sines Men been the ot of many poems pi plays and HI father Ing to the tory story W had MD greedy by ear Don on a covets of X lung Ferns too loo old 4 and feeble tIO le Pisa t the Insult with his OW own sword rd the te elder Due Dla bade his sea wipe the stain from the family I escutcheon obediently c Gom to a duel sad killed him Oem daughter ter XIna went lit tit to ur Mr uncle th the kl king demanding life In III for tor her br brought tile the tel tat avenger ve r and Rodrigo o fees t to face They y tn foil u lee with each h other at t arst lIht and by royal ro aI consent were ere married The TIta mars mar ria rl e c I is II preserved In local archive son eon Sancho at hi his tat fathers death cleath tell fell heir hll to the kin dom of 01 Castile HI younger oun brother Alfonso king of Leon made ear earon al on him Rod Rodrigo sided with Hanah and aided hIm in defeating anti and tm Alfonso Soon afterwards In leT 1071 Was ae and nd Alfonso inherited the thrones U ot of Caudle CAlIe and loon Leon Before permitting him to be crowned Rodrigo I 1 said to ben forced fa him to tabs solemn n oath fiat lie he we guiltless of fah brother murder Alf Alfonso tit this fee many reason had little oa to love the T Tot et the latter w was so powerful sad 1 so popular the king dared daNd not net openly destroy hIm So he east him on a Jan rou to subdue and wring rl tribute from the MCl Moorish king of a yule vIII the Moors collected the tribute and ad returned to hI his master mutu with it at But Alfonso Alfon to bell believe tb the had stolen part pan of the tribune atOll money him with theft and banished him from court t employment under other Spanish kl king But none oft accept the service ot of a man branded Its a felon flon raced I smarting from rom the unfortunate cham champion ra to Spain n end to Thenceforth h he became a freelance lighting tin for tor or for or whichever would odor 0 hit tile largest t pay par When ben fair was AI not 4 he did dot 01 tt to turn tura robber and plunder town towne end d castles Ue of Soldier or of fortune ked to hi his standard glad d to 0 erve under ee famous a I leader Scoundrel trie and d AR raf also Iso Jo joined him In tM the cure hope of booty H Hi arm army contained Christian knights sad 4 Moorish noblemen ii well as tM the o or of both in Sometime he bo fraught under the baa banner 0 of the eMU crow against the Moslem armies sometimes under tile the standard of against Iut the wen n of hili hl own owa ran raM and religion HII MI very rr name grew w to be a lI byword of tear fear I amon his hla foe b No price we deemed too hi high for a kl king to pa fee tor hl terrible sword At t last while serving In under UDdel the Moorish 11 king of oC 1 go 0 he was sent t to relieve Ut III siege or of which had at attacked tacked lay by a army The city It sad of at Vota formed the richest meet desirable r l ut Spain Tile Tb at t the head of his bend of hors bore Iowa dews ea the he besieges elro drove them tan oft off the tho city oct on his own owl alcot and proceeded I the whole 4 dies rid triet t and lid most of tM the ot of Murcia In delag Ibis he wee waR able to revenge on 01 hl hI old enemy m Alfonso who hel held a prole to ste over ot of the territory So rudely t annexed thus r rout carved out with his hIa sword nI Ii a little of hl hi own Ut the IId hi him roving marauder and settled down don In IBM 1 as II a petty monarch lie Jle was ns only IH 14 but alas llIe life he hd led bet began n to ten tell em him Deem the next neat few years he aged greatly and beet loet much muth of hl hI old fiery spirit when In l I a army mar against t he h 1111 not in III Iverson lead tile the but sent t out 4 a t t In IntA charge tA of et lib hla form TM M fours out hi army to plow at news of Uw the defeat died or of Ilia and uti inlet HI wife held ns the tho Inv two hLO ledger r but wee VII a at last forced to te yield Th Tb CIa little was W away But tM the rp et f hi his deed suit 11 Ilea In a thousand Ie a ned be will tOIe forever I continue to be tho hero hem of Spain |
