Sisnando Davides's tomb in Coimbra"Sisnando" in Arabic, from the contemporary chronicle of Ibn Bassam. It is pronounced "Shishnand".
Sisnando (or Sesnando) Davides (also Davídez, Davídiz, or Davidiz, and sometimes just David; died 25 August 1091) was a Mozarab nobleman and military leader of the Reconquista, born in Tentúgal, near Coimbra. He was a contemporary and acquaintance of El Cid, but his sphere of activity was in Iberia's southwest.
Much information can be gleaned about Sisnando's life from the detailed narratives that begin the diplomas issued by his Abbadid-influenced Mozarabic chancery at Coimbra, though the authenticity of these has lately come to be doubted.
Sisnando (or Sesnando) Davides (also Davídez, Davídiz, or Davidiz, and sometimes just David; died 25 August 1091) was a Mozarab nobleman and military leader...
Gonzalo Counts of Coimbra, second creation SisnandoDavides (1064/1075–1091) Martín Muñoz (1091–1093), son-in-law of Sisnando Portugal in the Reconquista...
chose Coimbra as capital. The first Count of Coimbra, the Mozarab SisnandoDavides, is buried in the cathedral. Coimbra (the Roman city of Aeminium) has...
territory in modern-day Portugal and captures Coimbra. He appoints SisnandoDavides to reorganise the economy and administer the lands encircling the city...
in 1064 by King Ferdinand I of León and Castile, who appointed Dom SisnandoDavides to reorganize the economy and administer the lands encircling the city...
tribute and in this same year the mozarabic lord of Tentúgal, Dom SisnandoDavides proposed to Emperor Ferdinand the capture of nearby Coimbra. Dom Sesnando...
Byzantine general 985 – Dietrich of Haldensleben, German margrave 1091 – SisnandoDavides, military leader 1192 – Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1142) 1258 –...
territory across the Mondego river. The Mozarabic (Christian) general SisnandoDavides, who led the siege of Coimbra, becomes Count of Coimbra. The Hispanic...
August 8 – Altmann of Passau, German bishop and saint August 25 – SisnandoDavides, Mozarab military leader December 19 Adelaide of Susa, margravine of...
August 8 – Altmann of Passau, German bishop and saint August 25 – SisnandoDavides, Mozarab military leader December 19 Adelaide of Susa, margravine of...
territory across the Mondego river. The Mozarabic (Christian) general SisnandoDavides, who led the siege of Coimbra, becomes Count of Coimbra. The Hispanic...
territory in modern-day Portugal and captures Coimbra. He appoints SisnandoDavides to reorganise the economy and administer the lands encircling the city...
appointment of the king). Years later, Mendo's granddaughter, Loba, married SisnandoDavides, a Mozarab of unknown background and certainly not of noble lineage...
after the reconquest of the city of Coimbra by the Christian forces of SisnandoDavides (1064). The first bishop of the new series was Martin. In the midst...
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