Garci López de Padilla

Cross of the Order of Calatrava.

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 - 1322. 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.

Bibliography

• Benavides, Antonio (1860). Memorias de Don Fernando IV de Castilla (1ª ed.). Madrid: Imprenta de Don José Rodríguez. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |fecha=, |urlcapítulo=, |cita=, |mes=, |coautores=, |capítulo=, |páginas=, and |enlaceautor= (help)

• González Mínguez, César; César González Mínguez (1995). Fernando IV, 1295-1312 (1ª ed.). Palencia: La Olmeda. ISBN 84-8173-027-0. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |capítulo=, |urlcapítulo=, |otros=, |páginas=, and |cita= (help)

• 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. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |editorial=, |urlcapítulo=, |otros=, |capítulo=, |páginas=, |cita=, |ubicación=, and |enlaceautor= (help)

• Mann, J. H. (1873). "XVII". A History of Gibraltar and its Sieges (2nd ed.). University of California: Provost.

See also

• Order of Calatrava
• Siege of Gibraltar (1309)
• Siege of Algeciras (1309)
• Grand Masters of the Order of Calatrava