>>996610
>insane loser who was jealous of his brother and so goddamn cruel that even most of his own countrymen and neighbors hated him
>last bastion of European Christian hegemony
I'm really fucking fed up of this reverse historical revisionism which tries to lionize the guy. Like, yeah, he wasn't the nonredeemable monster that some paint him as but he was also far from a fucking saint or even that competent.
Like, why the fuck isn't there anything about El Cid who actually DID do shit?