Professor Nora Berend

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You're Dead to Me · El Cid (Radio Edit) · 10 Jul 2026 podcast

And Ximena also takes Rodrigo's remains and has him reburied in a monastery called San Pedro de Cardenha.

A series of people and reasons, actually.

There is this kind of religious rhetoric, which is indeed important.

And in the 12th, 13th centuries especially, the war that was still a much messier war on the ground, but it was increasingly accompanied by a kind of ecclesiastical rhetoric, which presented it at least as sort of Christian war against Muslims.

It wasn't quite matching realities, but you have that very strong rhetoric of the restoration of Christian lands.

Two more reasons, really.

One was the creation of a prestigious past for Castile, because Castile, by the 13th century, became the most important Christian kingdom.

But at the start, it didn't have a particularly illustrious beginning.

So now they're looking for Castilian heroes.

So here is Elphid.

And then finally, the monastery, the monastery of San Pedro de Cardenio, where he's buried.

The monks are fantastic producers of all kinds of stories and tales and really foster his cult.

So they kind of create these fictional links between the live Rodrigues, if you had already sort of chosen the monastery in all kinds of ways.

And they, of course, want to attract donations and also have this very prestigious patron.

And they actually try to have him canonized as a saint eventually.

Well, yes, although it's kind of even more intriguing than that, because according to the story, which was written in the 13th century and then incorporated into the official court chronicles of the Castilians,

No, although the horse could also be an important player later on.

But according to this, St.

So St.

Peter appears to Rodrigo foretelling his death and a victory after death.

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