Battle of Cuarte

Date: October 21, 1094 • Location: Madrid, Spain

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1094.

El Cid and his forces defeat a larger army of the Almoravids in the battle of Cuarte.

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar was a Castilian knight and ruler in medieval Spain. Fighting with both Christian and Muslim armies during his lifetime, he earned the Arabic honorific as-Sayyid, which would evolve into El Çid, and the Spanish honorific El Campeador. He was born in Vivar, a village near the city of Burgos.