He managed to conquer Valencia and settled in this city an independent dominion from 15 June 1094 until his death. This is a historical and legendary figure of the Reconquista, whose life inspired the most important epic poem in Spanish literature, the Song of the Cid. It has gone down in history as El Cid or El Cid.
For the nickname Cid was known in life, as is attested in documents from 1098; nicknamed Cid, although it is conjectured that could use their contemporaries Zaragoza or Valencia, first it appears in the Poem of Almeria, composed between 1147 and 1149.