doña Jimena Díaz DE ASTURIAS
- Married: 19 Jul 1074
- Died: 1106
 Research Notes:
The "Corónicas" Navarras record that "este meo Çid" married "dona Xemena, nieta del rey don Alfonsso, filla del conte don Diago de Asturias". "Ruderigo Didaz" accepted as his wife "Scemena filia Didago ducis de terra Asturiense" and granted property "in territorio Kastelle…in Cavia" to her, including "villas que michi saccarunt Albaro Faniz et Albaro Albariz sobrinis meis", with "comes Petro Assuriz et comes Garsea Ordonniz" as guarantors, by charter dated 19 Jul 1074. "Rodric Diaz et uxor mea Scemena" donated property to the abbey of Silos by charter dated 12 May 1076. She attempted to retain control of Valencia after her husband's death but finally evacuated the city Apr/May 1102.
The Anales Toledanos record the death in 1106 of “Dona Ximena su muger [del Cid]”. 1
Marriage Information:
Jimena married Rodrigo Díaz DE VIVAR, "el Cid Campeador", Ruler of Valencia, son of don Diego Laínez DE VIVAR and doña Teresa Rodríguez DE ASTURIAS, on 19 Jul 1074. (Rodrigo Díaz DE VIVAR was born about 1043 in Vivar near Burgos, Castilla, Spain and died on 10 Jul 1099 in Valencia, Spain.)
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