Garci López de Padilla was a

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of the House of Padilla. He was the fifteenth Grand Master of the

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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

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and his participation in the greater campaign against the

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undertaken by

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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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* {{cite book , last = Benavides , first = Antonio , publisher = Imprenta de Don José Rodríguez , 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 Mínguez , first = César , author2=César González Mínguez , publisher = La Olmeda , title = Fernando IV, 1295-1312 , 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 Científicas , 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 , access-date = 2012-07-10 , archive-date = 2018-04-02 , archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180402101441/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 , url-status = dead {{DEFAULTSORT:Garci Lopez de Padilla Spanish untitled nobility Grand masters of the Order of Calatrava 13th-century Castilian nobility 14th-century Castilians {{Spain-noble-stub

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