ABSTRACT
For over a year the Cid remained in obscurity at Alphonso’s side, his hands tied by the subordination that the monarch’s favour entailed, and we hear no more about him until the submission of Galicia in the second half of the year 1088, when he again appears on the scene at Saragossa, wearied no doubt of Court life and keener than ever to make use of his former experience in the affairs of the Spanish East either on his own account or as the Emperor’s envoy. For Alphonso had granted to him and his heirs whatever conquests he should gain from the Moors, and these it was his aim to seek in the East.
