Charles Morris
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Sancho was not satisfied with this division.
Being the oldest he thought he should have all, and prepared to seize the shares of his brothers and sisters.
Looking for aid in this design, he was attracted by the growing fame of young Rodrigo, who
and gain his aid in the restoration of Zamora, which the Moors had destroyed.
While thus engaged there came to Rodrigo messengers with tribute from the five Moorish kings whom he had captured and released.
They held the young warrior as Cid or Thid, and the king, struck by the title, said that Ruidiaz should thenceforth bear it, also that he should be known as Campeador, or Champion.
King Sancho now knighted the young warrior with his own hand, and soon after made him Alfarez, or commander of his troops.
As such, he was dispatched against Alfonso, who was soon driven from his kingdom of Leon, and sought shelter in the Moorish city of Toledo.
Leon being occupied, the Cid marched against Galicia and drove out Garcia as he had done Alfonso.
Then he deprived Orraka and Elvira of the cities left them by their father, and the whole kingdom was once more placed under a single ruler.
It did not long remain so.
Sancho died in ten seventy two, and at once Alfonso and Garcia hurried back from exile to recover their lost realms.
But Alfonso's ambition equaled that of Sancho.
All or none was his motto.
Invading the kingdom of Galicia he robbed Garcia of it and held him prisoner.
Then he prepared to invade Castile, and offered the command of the army for this enterprise to the Cids.
The latter was ready for fighting in any form so that he could fight with honour, but there was doubt in his mind if service under Alfonso was consistent with the honor of a knight.
King Sancho had been assassinated while hunting, and it was whispered that Alfonso had some share in the murder.
The high minded Cid would not draw sword for him unless he swore that he had no lot or part in his brother's death.
Twice the Cid gave him the oath, whereupon, says the chronicle, Maissid repeated the oath to him a third time, and the king and the knights said amen.
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