Alias:<ALIA> Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar /El Cid/ REFN: 4729 [G675.ged] Rodrigo Di az (de Vivar), male line descendant (it would seem) of Judges Lain Calvo and Nuno Rasura, tracing back to a 9th century Nuno Belchidez. In this descent, he was linked (in the male line) with to some of the early (non-hereditary) C ounts of Castile, the Banu Gomez, the Banu Morel, and the Flainez/de Cifuente s families, and (in the female line) to the later (hereditary) Counts of Cast ile. He married Jimena Diaz, a descendant of the 10th century count Piniolo Gundemariz.