The King saw the crown, set with precious stones, and said, “To what end bring ye hither this crown?” And they said, “That you should take it, sire, in return for the good which you have done us.”  But he answered, “Far be it from me that I should take from your monastery what the good men before me have given to it!  Take ye back the crown, and take also ten marks of silver, and make with the money a good cross, to remain with you forever.  And he who shall befriend you, may God befriend him; but he who shall disturb you or your monastery, may he be cursed by the living God and by his saints.”  So the King signed the writing which he had commanded to be made, and his sons and chief captains signed it also, and in the writing he enjoined his children and his children’s children, as many as should come after him, to honor and protect the monastery of Lorvam; upon his blessing he charged them so to do, because he had found the brethren better than all the other monks in his dominions.

Then King Don Ferrando knighted Rodrigo of Bivar in the great mosque of Coimbra, which he dedicated to St. Mary.  And the ceremony was after this manner:  the King girded on his sword, and gave him the kiss, but not the blow.  To do him honor the Queen gave him his horse, and the Infanta Dona Urraca fastened on his spurs; and from that day forth he was called Ruydiez.  Then the King commanded him to knight nine noble squires with his own hand; and he took his sword before the altar, and knighted them.  The King then gave Coimbra to the keeping of Don Sisnando, Bishop of Iria; a man who, having more hardihood than religion, had by reason of his misdeeds gone over to the Moors, and sorely infested the Christians in Portugal.  But during the siege he had come to the King’s service, and bestirred himself well against the Moors; and therefore the King took him into his favor, and gave him the city to keep, which he kept, and did much evil to the Moors till the day of his death.  And the King departed and went to Compostella, to return thanks to Santiago.

But then Benalfagi, who was the lord of many lands in Estremadura, gathered together a great power of the Moors and built up the walls of Montemor, and from thence waged war against Coimbra, so that they of Coimbra called upon the King for help.  And the King came up against the town, and fought against it, and took it.  Great honor did Ruydiez win at that siege; for having to protect the foragers, the enemy came out upon him, and thrice in one day was he beset by them; but he, though sorely pressed by them, and in great peril, nevertheless would not send to the camp for succor, but put forth his manhood and defeated them.  And from that day che King gave more power into his hands, and made him head over all his household.