San Martín side, arch 3
García Fernández of Castile
Cartouche
GARCI FERZ
- Sculptor
- Alejandro Carnicero
- Year
- 1733–1734
- Where it is
- San Martín side, arch 3
Who he was
938–995 Count Castile and Alava
García Fernández, called of the White Hands (Spanish: el de las Manos Blancas) (Burgos, c. 938 – Córdoba, 995), was the count of Castile and Alava from 970 to 995. In May 995, he was captured by a raiding party while out hunting. Wounded in the encounter, he was sent to Cordoba as a trophy, but died at Medinaceli in June 995.
Opening paragraph from the Wikipedia article on García Fernández of Castile, in the revision we consulted, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Birth and death dates come from Wikidata.
Photograph: Tamorlan · CC BY 3.0 · file page on Wikimedia Commons. Cropped and colour-matched to sit with the rest.
