Garci López de Padilla was a
Spanish noble
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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
There have been fourteen recorded sieges of Gibraltar. Although the peninsula of Gibraltar is only long and wide, it occupies an extremely strategic location on the southern Iberian coast at the western entrance to the Mediterranean Sea. It ...
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
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Order of Calatrava
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Siege of Gibraltar (1309)
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Siege of Algeciras (1309) The Battle of Algeciras or Siege of Algeciras may refer to:
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Grand Masters of the Order of Calatrava
The following is an incomplete list of former grand masters of the Order of Calatrava, the current grand master of the order is King Felipe VI of Spain
# Don GarcÃa (Grand Master of Calatrava), Don GarcÃa (1164–1169)
# Fernando Icaza (1169†...
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Diego López de Santsoles
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Grand Master of the
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References
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Bibliography
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, publisher = Imprenta de Don José RodrÃguez
, editor =
, title = Memorias de Don Fernando IV de Castilla
, url = https://books.google.com/books?id=VLIGAAAAQAAJ&q=memorias+de+fernando+iv
, edition = 1ª
, year = 1860
, location = Madrid
, id =
, isbn =
* {{cite book
, last = González MÃnguez
, first = César
, author2=César González MÃnguez
, publisher = La Olmeda
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, url =
, edition = 1ª
, year = 1995
, location = Palencia
, isbn = 84-8173-027-0
* {{cite book
, last = Torres Fontes
, first = Juan
, editor = Academia Alfonso X el Sabio. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas
, title = Documentos de Fernando IV
, url = http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaObra.html?Ref=23220&portal=201
, edition = 1ª
, year = 1980
, isbn = 84-00-04659-5
* {{cite book
, last = Mann
, first = J. H.
, editor =
, title = A History of Gibraltar and its Sieges
, url = http://www.ebooksread.com/authors-eng/j-h-mann/a-history-of-gibraltar-and-its-sieges-hci/page-11-a-history-of-gibraltar-and-its-sieges-hci.shtml
, edition = 2nd
, volume =
, year = 1873
, publisher = Provost
, location = University of California
, isbn =
, chapter = XVII
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Spanish untitled nobility
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13th-century Castilians
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