Cid

In all this time did my Cid do good service to King Don Alfonso.

And in these days King Don Alfonso fought at Consuegra with King Abenalfange of Denia, and in this battle the Christians were defeated, and Diego Rodriguez, the son of my Cid, was slain.

Greatly was his death lamented by the Christians, for he was a youth of great hope, and one who was beginning to tread in the steps of his father.

And King Don Alfonso was fain to retire into the Castle of that town.

And Abenalfange gathered together the greatest power of the Moors that he could, and entered the land of the Christians, and past the mountains, and came even to Medina del Campo, and there Alvar Fanez Minaya met him.

Minaya had but five and twenty hundred horse with him, and of the Moors there were fifteen thousand; nevertheless by God's blessing he prevailed against them.

And by the virtue of God Alvar Fanez gave King Abenalfange a cruel wound in the face, so that he fled away.

Great honour did Minaya win for this victory.