Which military leader had swords called ‘Tizona' and ‘Colada’?
Colada Colada Colada is one of the two best-known swords, along with Tizona, of El Cid Campeador. Won in combat from the Count of Barcelona, the sword was presented (along with Tizona) to his sons in law. According to the heroic verses of the Cantar de mio Cid, after his sons-in-law beat his daughters and then abandoned them on the side of the road, El Cid asked for his gifts to be returned. Afterward, he bestowed the sword upon one of his knights, Martín Antolínez. Though its authenticity is doubted, a blade named "Colada" and traditionally identified with that of El
Tizona leather lined with green velvet." This does not fit the description of the extant sword exhibited as "Tizona", but the suggestion has been made that the sword listed as "Colada" in the same inventory may be the same now known as "Tizona" (Bruhn de Hoffmeyer 1988) According to Prudencio de Sandoval's "Historia de los reyes de Castilla y León"(1615), Ferdinand II of Aragon gave a sword identified as Tizona to Pedro de Peralta y Ezpeleta, first Count of Santisteban of Lerín (also cited as Antonio Carrillo de Peralta, 2nd marquis of Falces), for services rendered in the negotiations that led