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'''Santa Gadea''' is the name of a church in [[Burgos]], [[Spain]]. The church is famous in history and literature for being the site where Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar ([[El_Cid|El Cid]]) at the behest of the [[Castille|Castillian]] [[Cortes_Generales|Cortes]], forced [[Alfonso_VI_of_Castile|Alfonso VI]] to swear an oath that he was not an accomplice in the death of his brother, [[Sancho_II_of_Castile|Sancho]] while he was besieging [[Zamora,_Spain|Zamora]]. [[Romance XX|''Es el de la jura de Santa Gadea'']] [https://www.poesia-inter.net/indx0023.htm] is the most notable of Spanish medieval [[Romance_(genre)|romance]] about this event.