Professor Nora Berend
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But when there was a Muslim attack, a plundering attack against Castile, Rodrigo retaliated by raiding Toledo.
So obviously that put Alfonso in a very nasty spot because one of his own warriors was raiding an area he was supposed to be protecting.
So Alfonso ended up exiling Rodrigo.
Right.
She's Ximena.
They married around 1074.
She is also from an aristocratic family related, in fact, to King Alfonso VI.
And when Rodrigo goes into exile, she takes their children back to her family, probably.
They have three children, two daughters, Cristina and Maria, and probably a son, Diego, although he's only mentioned in a later source.
Yeah, I'm not so sure he's getting lots of sleep, actually.
And he first tried to go to the court of the Count of Barcelona, who was not interested in him.
So he ends up going to one of these Muslim taifa kingdoms, Zaragoza.
It's very much part of the course.
It was not at all unusual at the time.
And in fact, Christian kings had more of a chance dying by the hands of other Christians, including their relatives, than dying fighting Muslims.
And usually in these wars, Christian-Muslim alliances fought against other Christian-Muslim alliances.
So it's quite a misnomer to sort of see this as some kind of Christian war against Muslims.
The rhetoric of Christian war basically coexisted with this kind of much more pragmatic and indiscriminate fighting in reality.
It's unclear whether he initiated this return or the king because the background was basically a huge shock that was produced by the actions of Alfonso VI.
Up until then, kings were collecting tribute.
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