Tizona or Tizón is one of the swords (along with Colada) that tradition or literature attributes to El Cid Campeador, Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (1043-1099). According to the "Cantar de mio Cid" (1200), El Cid obtained it after defeating King Búcar of Morocco in Valencia to later give it to the Infantes de Carrión, for their marriage to his daughters.
Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, known as El Cid Campeador, was a Castilian knight and a historical and legendary figure of the Reconquista. He was born in the mid-11th century, son of Diego Laínez, and was educated alongside Infante Sancho, son of King Ferdinand I of Castile and León, who, upon ascending the Castilian throne, appointed him royal standard-bearer (1065).
A Castilian nobleman and warrior, who, leading his own army, came to dominate practically the entire eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the 11th century. He embodied the prototype of a knight with the highest virtues: strong and loyal, just and brave, prudent and temperate, warlike and cultured, and a faithful vassal of his King Alfonso VI, alongside whom he conquered Toledo, and subsequently expelled the Arabs from the city and the kingdom of Valencia.
The first reference to Tizona appears in the Cantar de mio Cid, where it is called Tizón. This name, according to the Tesoro de la lengua castellana o española of 1611, comes from the Latin titio, a synonym for 'ember, burning log'.
In the year 1503, Gonzalo de Bricio, by order of Queen Isabella the Catholic, carried out an inventory of the weapons found in the Alcázar of Segovia, among which "La Tizona" is described.
Between the years 1560 and 1621, Fray Prudencio de Sandoval, in his chronicle of the Kings of Castile and León, mentions the Tizona held by the Marquises of Falces as part of their entailed estate, and which apparently was ceded to them by King Ferdinand the Catholic as a reward for their services, with the condition of bringing it to the Palace for the Kings of Spain to swear their oaths.
In 1936, it disappeared from its home, along with the documents of bestowal and legitimation. The sword reappeared after the Civil War, in 1939, in the castle of Figueras, from where it was transferred to the Army Museum in Madrid. It was later acquired by the Junta de Castilla y León with the help of private donations for 1.6 million euros. Its final destination will be Burgos Cathedral, where the remains of El Campeador are buried.
I AM TISONA I WAS MADE IN THE ERA OF ONE THOUSAND FORTY
HAIL MARY FULL OF GRACE THE LORD IS WITH THEE
According to El Cantar de MÍo Cid:
"Tizona has its own personality, its strength varies according to the arm that wields it, terrifying unworthy adversaries."
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