García de Ayerbe

García Miguel de Ayerbe[a] (died 4 September 1332) was an Aragonese nobleman and cleric who served as the bishop of León from April 1318 until his death.

[c] In October, he reopened a century-old dispute by attempting to assert episcopal authority over the abbey of Sahagún, which claimed exemption.

[10] In 1322, he appealed to the papal legate Cardinal Guillaume de Pierre Godin for the return of certain lands held by the abbey.

[14] There is a suggestion in the Crónica de Alfonso XI that García was considered a suspect foreigner in the royal court.

That same month, Alfonso XI ordered him to hand over the castles of Mesmino and Peña Morquera or face charges of treason.

[16] His nephew, Miguel Bertrán de Ayerbe, died on 10 November 1328 while visiting García in León and was buried in the cathedral there.

[2] His plan demanded peace between France, Aragon, Castile and Sicily, to be achieved through marriage alliances.

One of the values of the overland route was that it would allow the Byzantine empire, which he believed would ally with the Anatolian Turks against the crusaders, to be conquered.

[37] As for the maritime side, García recommends the fleets to stop frequently to allow men and animals to rest onshore and urges the king to practice swimming.

[38] Besides the crusade treatise, García wrote an Ecclesiastical Constitution for his diocese in 1319 and a letter dated 18 March 1324.