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Garci Ordonez De Montalvo
Garci () may refer to: Given name :''In chronological order'' * Garci López de Padilla, Spanish noble, Grand Master of the military Order of Calatrava from 1296 to 1322, commander of the Castilian forces at the Siege of Gibraltar in 1309 * Garcí Méndez II de Sotomayor (1280–?), Spanish noble * Garci Lasso de la Vega I (died 1328), Spanish noble * Garci Lasso de la Vega II (died 1351), Spanish soldier * Garci Lasso Ruiz de la Vega (1340–1367), Spanish noble * Garci Álvarez de Toledo, Spanish noble, Grand Master of the religious and military Order of Santiago from 1359 to 1366 * Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (c. 1450–1505), Castilian author * Garci Sánchez de Badajoz (1460?–1526?), Spanish writer and poet * Garcí Manuel de Carbajal (died 1552), Spanish lieutenant and soldier who founded the city of Arequipa (in what is now Peru) Surname * Gwen Garci, Filipina actress and model * José Luis Garci, Spanish filmmaker See also * Virgilio Garcillano, Filipino politician * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garci López De 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.{{cite web , url=http://www.euskalnet.net/laviana/gen_hispanas/padilla.htm , title=Los Padilla en la historia y en la familia , last1= , first1= , last2= , first2= , date= , website=euskalnet.net , publisher=Euskalnet , accessdate=9 May 2014 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. See also * Order of Calatrava * Siege of Gibraltar (1309) * Siege of Algeciras (1309) * Grand Masters of the Order of Calatrava {{s-start {{s-b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garcí Méndez II De Sotomayor
García Méndez de Sotomayor or Garcí Méndez II de Sotomayor, the second of his name (1280 – ?) was a Castilian noble and head of the Méndez branch of the House of Sotomayor who founded the Lordship del Castillo de Carpio. Family origins The House of Méndez de Sotomayor held title over the Señorio del Castillo de Carpio and the later Marquesado. The family was originally landed with title over Soutomaior, Province of Pontevedra, Galicia founded by Mendo Páez de Sorred, the Ricohombre of King Alfonso VII of León and Castile. García Méndez was one of the sons of Alfonso García de Sotomayor, III Señor de Sotomayor and his wife Urraca Pires Barroso though it appears that García Méndez did not inherit his father's title over Sotomayor. His paternal grandfather was Garcí Méndez I de Sotomayor, ''Conquistador de Córdoba''. Biography In the mid 1200s, Ferdinand III of Castile was involved in a series of Reconquista campaigns against the Caliphate of Có ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garci Lasso De La Vega I
Garci Lasso de la Vega I, also known as "el Viejo" (d. 1328, Soria) was a Spanish noble in the service of King Alfonso XI of Castile. He was the chancellor of the Kingdom of Castile, an adelantado of the king. He later became the chief justice of the king and gained vast properties in Asturias de Santillana and feudal land tenures and vassal towns in more than fifteen areas throughout Castile. He went to Soria in 1328 to recruit allies against ''infante'' Don Juan Manuel who had been consistently violating the king's territories. The Spanish nobles of Soria assaulted him with crossbows, driving de la Vega to seek cover at the Convent of San Francisco where he was eventually killed. Alfonso XI punished all those responsible, ordering their execution. Possible ancestry According to Luis de Salazar y Castro, the origin of the "de la Vega" lineage could be Diego Gómez, son of count Gómez González de Manzanedo and countess Milia Pérez de Lara. Roy Díaz de la Vega, a son of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garci Lasso De La Vega II
Garci Lasso de la Vega II, also known as “El Joven” ( ? - Burgos, 1351) was the son of Garci Lasso de la Vega "El Viejo" with his first wife, Juana de Castañeda. He commanded Castillian troops against Navarra in the Battle of Río Salado of 1334. After distinguishing his valor, he was appointed as the highest royal official to the court of Fadrique Alfonso de Castilla, master of the Order of Santiago and son of Alfonso XI of Castile. He was later appointed Adelantado of Castile through the patronage of Juan Núñez de Lara. After the death of his patron, he sought refuge in Burgos, fearing the wrath of Juan Alfonso de Alburquerque. King Pedro I and his loyal men found him there where he suffered an atrocious death witnessed by the king in 1351, as reported by Pero López de Ayala in his chronicle on the reign of this monarch. Inheritance In divvying up his father's estate after his death in 1338, Lasso de la Vega inherited land across the Kingdom in the following area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garci Lasso Ruiz De La Vega
Garci Lasso Ruiz de la Vega (1340 – 2 April 1367) was a Spanish noble from Cantabria and one of the pillars in the history of the prominent contemporary House of Garci Lasso de la Vega or Garcilasco de la Vega. As the eldest son Garci Lasso Ruiz de la Vega succeeded his father, Garci Lasso de la Vega II, as the head of his household. Family origins Garci was the grandson of Garci Lasso de la Vega I, the chancellor of the Kingdom of Castile who was executed in 1326 by order of King Alfonso XI of Castile, and his wife Juana de Castañeda. He was the son of Garci Lasso de la Vega II who was the highest royal official to the court of Fadrique Alfonso de Castilla, son of King Alfonso XI of Castile, and his wife, Leonor González de Cornado. His father continued the trend of regal defiance and assassination and was killed in Burgos in 1351 by order of Peter of Castile. Biography After the assassination of his father in 1351, Garci Lasso Ruiz de la Vega fled and took shelt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garci Álvarez De Toledo
Garci Álvarez de Toledo y Meneses was a Spanish noble of the House of Oropesa. He was the Grand Master of the Order of Santiago from 1359 to 1366. Family origins Garci was from the prestigious House of Oropesa. He was the son of Garci Álvarez de Toledo, the head Alcalde of Toledo, and Mencía Téllez de Meneses y Gómez. He was the brother of Gutierre Álvarez de Toledo, bishop of Palencia and cardinal and chancellor of the Queen Juana Manuel. He was also the brother of Fernán Álvarez de Toledo y Meneses, Marshall of Castile. Marriage and descendants Garci married Estefanía de Monroy, but had no children with her. He did however, have an illegitimate son with Catalina de Loaysa, Fernán Álvarez de Toledo y Loaysa. Some historians suggest the possibility that Garci eventually married in secret with Catalina. Biography Garci served the king Peter of Castile, being named head Mayordomo of his son Alonso. In 1359 he was named Grand Master of the Order of Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garci Rodríguez De Montalvo
Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo (; c. 1450 – 1505) was a Castilian author who arranged the modern version of the chivalric romance '' Amadis of Gaul'', originally written in three books in the 14th century by an unknown author. Montalvo incorporated a fourth book in the original series, and followed it with a sequel, ''Las sergas de Esplandián''. It is the sequel that Montalvo is most often noted for, not for the book itself, but because within the book he coined the word ''California''. Montalvo is known to have been referred to by several other names, including; Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo, García Gutiérrez de Montalvo and García de Montalvo el Viejo. Biography Montalvo was born in Medina del Campo in the Province of Valladolid, Spain. He came from an influential family, belonging to the Pollino lineage, one of the seven who dominated Medina's council policy. This lineage came from Martín Gutiérrez de Montalvo, VIII lord of Botalorno. At one time Montalvo had the title '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garci Sánchez De Badajoz
Garci Sánchez de Badajoz (1460?–1526?) was a Spanish writer and poet. He was an author of lovers' complaints which were popular with the poets of the Renaissance.''The Penguin Book of Spanish Verse'' (introduced and edited by J.M. Cohen) His family came from the low Extremaduran nobility of Badajoz but in the 15th century they settled in Écija. ''The General Songbook'' (1511) includes a large number of his compositions, and others appear in loose sheets and in the Romance Songbook. According to Fray Jerónimo Román, Sánchez de Badajoz was an eminent musician who played the vihuela The vihuela () is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of t .... References Spanish male writers People from Écija Date of birth unknown Date of death unknown Year of birth uncertain {{Spain-bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garcí Manuel De Carbajal
Don Garcí Manuel de Carbajal (died 1552) was a Spanish lieutenant and occasional soldier who founded the city of Arequipa in Peru on August 15, 1540, calling it "La Villa Hermosa de Arequipa." Carbajal was born in Plasencia, Extremadura, Spain and explored present-day Arequipa as an emissary of Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro. Soon after the capture and execution of Atahualpa and the conquest of the Inca Empire was assured, Francisco Pizarro set about sending numerous Spanish delegations across Peru with the intention of founding new cities so as to consolidate his newly acquired dominions. Such was the case behind the exploration of what would become the city of Arequipa: the Spanish delegation led by Carbajal followed the advice of Pizarro and journeyed to Southern Peru. During the exploration, Carbajal and his followers reached the coast of Camaná and settled there briefly. To their dismay, however, many started suffering from fever and other illnesses and soon decided ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwen Garci
The Viva Hot Babes are a Filipino pop girl group composed of actresses and models, founded in Manila by producer Vicente "Vic" del Rosario, Jr. in 2003. They were mainly spearheaded by actresses Maui Taylor, Katya Santos and Andrea del Rosario. The girls released softcore movies all under Viva Films, as well as a full-length album containing songs with double entendres and sexual innuendos with highly controversial meanings. The group rose to fame after the release of ''Hotstuff'' and ''Hotstuff 2'' pornographic magazines, which created a stir in the early 2000s. Their debut single "Bulaklak" was one of the most controversial and critically panned songs of the 2000s, due to its double entendre and underlying sex themes. Biography Early formation In the 1990s, Viva Films had successfully molded screen favorites like Joyce Jimenez and Rica Peralejo, whose softcore movies raked in millions for the production company. In 2001, Viva Entertainment founder Vicente "Vic" del Rosario, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Garci
José Luis García Muñoz (born 20 January 1944), known professionally as José Luis Garci, is a Spanish Film director, film director, Film, producer, critic, TV presenter, screenwriter and author. He earned worldwide acclaim and his country's first Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award for ''Begin the Beguine (film), Begin the Beguine'' (1982). Four of his films, including also ''Sesión continua'' (1984), ''Course Completed, Asignatura aprobada'' (1987) and ''The Grandfather (1998 film), El abuelo'' (1998), have been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, more than any other Spanish director. His films are characterized for his classical style and the underlying sentimentality of their plots. Early life and work Born in 1944 in a humble family from Asturias. After completing a pre-university course, Garci began working as an administrative assistant in a bank. His love for cinema from an early age led him to pursue filmmaking as a career. At age twent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virgilio Garcillano
Virgilio Olivar Garcillano (born ''c.''1948) also known as ''Garci'', is a former official of the Philippine Commission on Elections (Philippines), Commission on Elections who allegedly was involved in Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's alleged electoral fraud in the Hello Garci scandal. Garcillano was missing as he is suspected to be in hiding, initially abroad but recently in the country. Some sources stated that he was seen leaving the Philippines for Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Other sources also stated that Garcillano was seen boarding a jet en route to Singapore. Garcillano also momentarily was seen in Surigao City, particularly in a beach resort under heavy guard. An arrest warrant was issued to his last known address in Cagayan de Oro City but his father-in-law refused to sign it, but it was considered served. The Philippine National Police and National Bureau of Investigation (Philippines), National Bureau of Investigation were requested by the Philippines, Philippine Congress of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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