Garci López de Padilla | |
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| Grand Master of the Order of Calatrava | |
 Cross of the Order of Calatrava. | |
| Noble family | House of Padilla |
Garci López de Padilla was a Spanish noble of the House of Padilla. He was the fifteenth Grand Master of the Order of Calatrava from 1296 to 1322.[1] He is best known for his command of the Castilian forces at the Siege of Gibraltar and his participation in the greater campaign against the Kingdom of Granada undertaken by Ferdinand IV of Castile in 1309.
The Siege of Gibraltar became one of the only successful achievements in the entire campaign undertaken by Ferdinand IV as the other main objective of taking the city of Algeciras turned into a quagmire and the king was obliged to lift the siege.
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References
- ↑ "Los Padilla en la historia y en la familia". euskalnet.net. Euskalnet. Retrieved 9 May 2014.
Bibliography
- Benavides, Antonio (1860). Memorias de Don Fernando IV de Castilla (1ª ed.). Madrid: Imprenta de Don José Rodríguez.
- González Mínguez, César; César González Mínguez (1995). Fernando IV, 1295-1312 (1ª ed.). Palencia: La Olmeda. ISBN 84-8173-027-0.
- Torres Fontes, Juan (1980). Academia Alfonso X el Sabio. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ed.). Documentos de Fernando IV (1ª ed.). ISBN 84-00-04659-5.
- Mann, J. H. (1873). "XVII". A History of Gibraltar and its Sieges (2nd ed.). University of California: Provost.
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