_General Nature of Spanish Chivalry ... Religion and Heroism ... Gallantry ... Blending of Spanish and Oriental Manners ... Its beneficial Tendencies ... Peculiarities of Spanish Chivalry ... Forms of Knighthood ... Various Ranks of Knights ... Spanish Poetry ... Heroes of Chivalry ... Pelayo ... Bernardo del Carpio ... And incidentally of Charlemagne's Expedition into Spain ... The Life of the Cid ... His early ferocious Heroism ... His singular Marriage ... Enters the Service of King Ferdinand ... The Cid's Chivalric Gallantry ... He is knighted ... Death of King Ferdinand ... The Cid becomes the Knight of Sancho, King of Castile ... Mixture of Evil and Good in the Cid's Character ... Supports the King in his Injustice. ... The Cid's romantic Heroism ... Sancho's further Injustice opposed by him ... Death of Sancho ... Instance of the Cid's virtuous Boldness ... Character of Alfonso, Successor of Sancho ... Story of his chivalric Bearing ... The Cid's second Marriage ... Is banished from Alfonso's Court ... Becomes the Ally of the Moors. ... But recalled ... Is banished again ... Singular Story of the Cid's unknightly Meanness ... Fortunes of the Cid during his Exile ... The Cid's chivalric Nobleness and Generosity ... Is recalled by Alfonso ... The Cid captures Toledo ... and Valentia ... Story of Spanish Manners ... The Cid's unjust Conduct to the Moors ... The unchivalric Character of the Cid's Wife and Daughters ... The Cid recalled by Alfonso ... The Marriages of his Daughters ... Basely treated by their Husbands ... Cortez at Toledo to decide the Cause ... Picture of ancient Manners ... Death of the Cid ... His Character ... Fate of his good Horse ... Spanish Chivalry after his Death ... Gallantry of a Knight ... The Merits of Missals decided by Battle ... Passage of Arms at Orbigo ... Knights travel and joust for Ladies' Love ... Extinction of Spanish Chivalry._ [Sidenote: General nature of Spanish chivalry.] Spanish chivalry awakens the most splendid and romantic associations of the mind. Europe, with her active courage,--her jealousy of honour,--her superior religion;--Asia, with her proud and lofty deportment,--her fervid and sublimated imagination, and the magnificent ceremonial of her pomp,--formed the knight of Spain; and, in consequence of this influence of Orientalism on his character, he represents the stateliness of chivalry as perfectly as the English cavalier its adventurousness, and the French its gaiety. [Sidenote: Religion and heroism.]