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DoñaJimena Díaz, also spelledXimena (Spanish:[xiˈmenaˈði.aθ];Old Spanish:Ximena Díaz[ʃiˈmenaˈdi.adz̻]; before July 1046^[a] –c. 1116[3]),reigned asPrincess of Valencia from 1099 to 1102. She was the wife and successor ofEl Cid, whom she married between July 1074 and 12 May 1076.^[4] ThePrincipality of Valencia was an independent state founded by Jimena's husband.

Jimena was the daughter ofDiego Fernández, Count ofOviedo, the son of countFernando Flaínez. Her mother was his wife Cristina. She was a sister ofFernando Díaz, Count of Asturias.

Upon marryingRodrigo Díaz, Jimena Díaz accompanied her husband although it has remained unclear if she lived with him in theTaifa of Zaragoza during his first exile (from 1080 to 1086) as leader of the Andalusian army in service ofAhmah al-Muqtadir,Yusuf al-Mu'taman ibn Hud, andAl-Mustain II. There is also little historical certainty as to whether 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 fromTol 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 ofAlfonso VI of León and Castile. Nothing else is known about Jimena until the end of 1094, when Rodrigo Díaz, on October 21, winning thebattle of Cuarte, secured his control overValencia (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 theAlmoravids 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 theCathedral of Valencia in 1101 containing her signature.

In 1103 she signed a document in the Monastery ofSan Pedro of Cardeña for the sale of a monastery that she owned to two canons ofBurgos, although this fact does not necessarily 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 asThe 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 marriedRamiro Sánchez of Monzón and became mother of kingGarcía Ramírez of Navarre, while Maria was successively wife of a prince ofAragón andRamon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona.

Jimena and her husband were buried at San Pedro de Cardeña. After tombs were ransacked during theNapoleonic Wars, they were reburied in Burgos, and they now rest inBurgos Cathedral.

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• Torres Sevilla-Quiñones de León, Margarita Cecilia (1999).Linajes nobiliarios de León y Castilla: Siglos IX-XIII (in Spanish). Salamanca: Junta de Castilla y León, Consejería de educación y cultura.ISBN 84-7846-781-5.
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