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Description   This is the reproduction shield of Armaduras El Cid (Spanish). It's 24" long and 18" wide. All metal construction with bronzed-steel embossing and baked-enamel finishes. It is equipped with chain and mounting bracket on the back. It weighs 7lb.Great quality. Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (Vivar c.1040 ¨C Valencia, 10 July 1099), known as El Cid Campeador, was a petty Castilian nobleman, then military and political leader who conquered and governed the city of Valencia. Rodrigo Diaz was educated in the royal court of the Castile and became the alf¨Śrez, or chief general, of Alfonso VI, fighting against the Moors in the early Reconquista. Later exiled by the king, El Cid left service in Castile and worked as a mercenary for other rulers, both Moslem and Christian. The nickname "El Cid Campeador" is a compound of two separate sobriquets. "El Cid" is derived from the word sid in the Andalusi Arabic dialect (from the Arabic sayyid, "sir" or "lord," a title of respect), while the title el campeador (the champion) was granted by his Christian admirers and derives from the Latin campidoctor. These titles reflected the great esteem El Cid had among both Moors and Christians, as well as his fighting ability; Henry Edwards Watts wrote that el campeador "means in Spanish something more special than 'champion'.... A campeador was a man who had fought and beaten the select fighting-man of the opposite side in the presence of the two armies."

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