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.
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.
Notes
a. Count Diego died before 24 July 1046 when his daughter Onneca Díaz and her husband Gundemaro Iohannes appear in a charter from the Cathedral of Oviedo as executors of his will.[1][2]
b. In a charter from the Cathedral of Oviedo, the three siblings, Rodrigo, Fernando, and Jimena Díaz held up a legal action with the bishop regarding the right over the Tol monastery which belonged to the cathedral after having been donated by Gontrodo Gundemáriz, daughter of Gundemaro Pinióliz.[5]
References
1. Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León 1999, pp. 196–197.
2. Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León 2000, p. 19.
3. Montaner Frutos 2011, p. 700.
4. Montaner Frutos 2006, p. 335 y n. 21.
5. Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León 1999, p. 193.