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Birth:          ABT 1054 Spain
Death:          1115 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimena_D%C3%ADaz
Doña Jimena Díaz (also spelled Ximena) (before July 1046[a]–c.1116[3]) was the wife 
of El Cid, whom she married between July 1074 and 12 May 1076,[4] and her 
husband's successor as ruler of Valencia from 1099 to 1102.
Biography[edit]

Jimena was the daughter of Diego Fernández, Count of Oviedo and son of Count 
Fernando Flaínez, and his wife Cristina. She was a sister of Fernando Díaz.

Upon marrying Rodrigo Díaz, Jimena Díaz accompanied her husband although it has 
remained unclear if she lived with him in the Taifa of Zaragoza during his first exile 
(from 1080-1086) as leader of the Andalusian army in service of Ahmah al-Muqtadir, 
Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud, and Al-Mustain II. There is also little historical certainty as 
to whether or not she moved with him in this period to Asturias, although there exists 
some documentation to suggest that she maintained a presence even during periods 
of separation (a legal action from Tol in 1083).[b]

At the beginning of the second exile of the Cid, in 1089, Jimena was imprisoned with 
her children, Cristina, Diego and María by mandate of Alfonso VI of León and Castile. 
Nothing else is known about Jimena until the end of 1094, when Rodrigo Díaz, on 
October 21, winning the battle of Cuarte, secured his control over Valencia (that he 
had conquered on June 17 of that year) and she was reunited with her husband until 
his death in 1099.

From this point she was Lady of Valencia until 1102 when Alfonso VI, her kinsman, 
decided to set fire to and abandon the city to the Almoravids in response to the 
impossibility of defending it. Alfonso VI escorted Jimena in her return to Castile. 
Around this period there remains a document of donation made by Jimena Díaz to the 
Cathedral of Valencia in 1101 containing her signature.

In 1103 she signed a document in the Monastery of San Pedro of Cardeña for the sale 
of a monastery that she owned to two canons of Burgos, although this fact does not 
mean that Jimena would have lived in the abbey during her old age, as was the legend 
maintained by the monastery until the 18th century in the hagiographic texts known as 
The Legend of Cardeña. It is more likely that she lived her last years in Burgos or in a 
nearby outlying area. She died sometime between August 29 of 1113 and 1116, 
probably in that final year.[3] Of her three children, Diego was killed in battle fighting 
under Alfonso VI in 1097, Cristina married Ramiro Sánchez of Monzón and became 
mother of king García Ramírez of Navarre, while Jimena was successively wife of a 
prince of Aragón and Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona.

Parents
FERNANDEZ Diego (ABT 1030 - )
FERNANDEZ Christina (ABT 1030 - )

Siblings
DIAZ Jimena (Ximene) (ABT 1054 - 1115)

Marriage To DIAZ DE BIVAR Roderigo "el Cid" (ABT 1043 - Jul 1099)
    m. 14 May 1074 

Notes

Parents
LAINEZ Diego (ABT 1015 - ABT 1058)
RODRIGUEZ Teresa (ABT 1015 - )

Children by DIAZ DE BIVAR Roderigo "el Cid" ABT 1043 - Jul 1099
RODRIGUEZ DE BIVAR Christina (Elvira) (Ximene) (ABT 1075 - )
DE VIVAR Marie (ABT 1084 - BEF 1110)

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