1361 Catalano-Aragonese sack of Marinid-held Gibraltar during Reconquista.
The sack of Gibraltar of 1361 was a Catalano-Aragonese attack against Marinid-held Gibraltar during the Reconquista. After the Peace of Terrer, Bernat II de Cabrera led six galleys and 300 Catalan and Aragonese knights against Marinid forces, targeting their last remaining stronghold on the northern shore of the Strait.
The sack of Gibraltar of 1361 was a military attack during the Reconquista, carried out by Catalano-Aragonese forces against territories of the Marinid dynasty at Gibraltar. Earlier, in 1309, Alonso Pérez de Guzmán, known as Guzmán el Bueno, had conquered Gibraltar for the Crown of Castile, but in 1333 the Marinids from Morocco reconquered it. By 1361 Gibraltar was already the only position the Marinids still held on the northern shore of the Strait of Gibraltar. After the Peace of Terrer in 1361, Bernat II de Cabrera led the operation against Gibraltar. He fought the Saracen forces of the Marinid dynasty with six galleys and 300 Catalan and Aragonese knights. The result of the sack is described as indeterminate. Later developments changed control of Gibraltar. The Marinids definitively lost Gibraltar to the Nasrid ruler of Granada, Yússuf III, in 1410. Subsequently, the Duke of Guzmán of Medina Sidonia conquered Gibraltar definitively for the Castilians on 20 August 1462. The sack of Gibraltar of 1361 is therefore one episode within the broader sequence of conflicts and sieges over this strategically important stronghold.
