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 Wys³any: Pon Mar 11, 2024 05:40 Temat postu: Álvar Fáñez, a knight in the shadow of the Cid |
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Unequally both were deformed by Cidian tradition. Alfonso VI became a mediocre, envious, self-conscious and minor king, who became the paradigm of a disloyal, manipulable and obtuse king. Álvar Fáñez would be engulfed by the Minaya of the Song of Mío Cid , an epic archetype of a subaltern knight skilled in battle and a model of excessive loyalty towards the charismatic leader. Historical sources present us with a reality different from those epic, heroic, literary figurations. The first of which we have evidence takes us to the spring of the year , when Fáñez, after having helped Alfonso in the operations that led to the conquest of Toledo the previous year, would be appointed by the sovereign to protect al-Qadir. Al-Qadir, grandson of the great al-Mamun, with whom Alfonso had maintained good relations, had been compensated with the throne of Valencia in exchange for the surrender of Toledo. But Valencia was a turbulent , complicated scene, where several factions coveted power, and where there were powerful and influential families. Al-Qadir seems not to have had many virtues. The Muslim chronicles present him to us as a pusillanimous individual, dominated by inaction and a taste for luxury and the pleasures of life. Someone like this needed to be protected on his new.
Neither Alfonso VI was such a bad king, nor Rodrigo Díaz such a good vassal, nor Álvar Fáñez such a skilled knight, at least not in the way in which the Song would glorify him, setting lasting and established images even in our days. But something motivated the consecration of Álvar Fáñez as a heroic knight, and we must look for that reality in the years in which he was responsible for the defense of a Toledo in a persistent state of threat against the Almoravids. But before that, Fáñez had cut B2B Email List his teeth in the difficult world he had to live in, acting at all times as a loyal agent to Alfonso VI, executing the different missions that the king entrusted to him, always remaining faithful to the monarch. Valencian throne, and in the process ensure the tributes that Valencia would pay to Alfonso VI from his new position. Alfonso would gain from that arrangement, since he would dominate the Valencian throne by placing an easily dominated puppet on it. The one designated to protect the new, and weak, taifa was precisely Álvar Fáñez, who escorted al-Qadir to Valencia at the command of an army of about four hundred Christian knights provided by Alfonso VI.
There is not too much historical evidence that we have left about Álvar Fáñez, but not so little as to not draw a biography of the character. Plácido Ballesteros did it, producing the most complete study on Fáñez that has been done to date. We do not know exactly when he could have been born, although we assume that on dates similar to those of Rodrigo the Campeador, with whom he would maintain some degree of kinship. We see him appearing as a confirmer in the letter of deposit that the couple formed by Rodrigo and Jimena signed in the year , where it is said that he is Rodrigo's nephew . This allows us to see him integrated into the court of Alfonso VI, after possibly having served, as his relative, the deceased Sancho II of Castile. From there the king would entrust him with different complex tasks that involved responsibility. |
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