Rodrigo Díaz of Vivar is known to history above all as the man who conquered Valencia. The Cantar de mio Cid includes that feat in its narrative, but recounts the actual conquest in only eleven lines while devoting several hundred to military campaigns that are undocumented in history, or have been displaced from their rightful chronological place in the life of Rodrigo of Vivar, or did not take place at all. None of the historical sources on the Cid's life details the itinerary of his journey into exile, but the Historia Roderici reports that his first destination was Barcelona (Menéndez Pidal 1947,2:923), which would have required him to follow a route leading directly east rather than the south-southeastern trajectory that he takes in the poem (Chalon 1976: 83). See map 1. His activities in the valley of the Henares may reflect a raid he carried out in 1081, that is to say shortly before his first exile, but Jules Horrent has pointed out (1973: 273–4) that according to Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada the valley of the Henares was occupied at the time of the Cid's first exile by troops that Alfonso VI had led into the Moorish kingdom of Toledo. The Cid's stay at El Poyo recalls the period in 1089 when, reconciled with Alfonso VI, he imposed a tribute on the region around Calamocha (see Chalon 1976: 89n, 91, 97).