He drowned whilst attempting the Seventh Siege of Gibraltar.
On 4 March 1405 he married Teresa Suárez de Figueroa y Orozco, Lady of Escamilla and Santa Olalla, daughter of Lorenzo Suarez de Figueroa, Master of the Military Order of Santiago, and of Maria de Orozco.
In 1418, he bought the Lordship of the Canary Islands from its conquerer Jean de Béthencourt.
[1] In 1430, he transferred ownership of the Canary islands of El Hierro, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote to Hernan Peraza the Elder, who had the rights to the remaining, not yet conquered islands.
This was the Seventh Siege of Gibraltar then the isthmus was under the control of the Spanish Moors.