Pelagius of asturias ( c. 685 – 737)

Asturian: Pelayu; Galician: Paio; Spanish: Pelayo; Portuguese: Pelágio;

Hispano-Visigoth nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias in 718. Credited with initiating the Reconquista (Battle of Covadonga, 718/722) , the Christian reconquest of the Iberian Peninsula from the Moors, and establishing the Asturian monarchy, making him the forefather of all the future Iberian monarchies, including the Kings of Castile, the Kings of León, and the Kings of Portugal.

 Arnau Mir de Tost (c. 1000 – after 1072)

Catalan nobleman of Urgell, the lord of Llordà and viscount of Àger

A major figure in the eleventh-century Reconquista in Catalonia, Arnau is sometimes praised as the "El Cid of the Lands of Lleida" for his foundational role in reestablishing Christian rule in the region to the south of Urgell.

Arias Pérez (active 1110–1129)

Galician knight and military leader in the Kingdom of León - knight of the court of Queen Urraca the Reckless

Reverter de La Guardia (died 1142 or 1144)

Viscount of Barcelona, Catalan adventurer ,military leader who defended the Almoravid caliphate in North Africa against the Almohads.

Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (c. 1043 – 10 July 1099), called el cid

Castilian knight and warlord, dominated the Levante of the Eastern coast of Iberia, reclaimed the Taifa of Valencia from the Moors, ruled Valencia as Prince from 1094-1099, National Hero of Spain

Fernando Yáñez (active c. 1112–1157)

Minor Galician nobleman in the service of Queen Urraca (1109–26) and King Alfonso VII (1126–57). Royal military commander charged with the defense of the Limia on the border between Galicia and Portugal.

Antonio de Luna y de Xérica (deceased in Mequinenza, Aragón, in 1419)

Aragonese nobleman, Lord of Almonacid, Loarre, Morés, Pola and Rueda.

1396: member of the embassy for Martin I of Aragon

1411: assassinated the Archbishop of Zaragoza

1412: arrested, dispossessed, and excommunicated

Pere d'Artés (14th-15th centuries)

Valencian nobleman, knight of the court of John I of Aragon, Chancellor of the Exchequer of Aragon, courtier of Martin of Aragon, patron of the arts, overseer of the construction of the royal palace of Valencia

Suero de Quiñones (c. 1409 – 11 July 1456), called El del Passo ("he of the pass")

Knight and author born in Kingdom of León

Quiñones is famous for staging a pas d’armes at the bridge over the River Orbigo. From July 10 to August 9, 1434, Quiñones and ten companions camped by the bridge and challenged to a duel any knight who wished to cross the bridge (the Obrigo bridge is a major crossing on the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela).

Álvaro Obertos de Valeto (1427 - March 12, 1482)

Knight of the Spanish nobility, jurist, donated the land for construction of the Charterhouse of Jerez de la Frontera (la Cartuja de Jerez de la Frontera)

Juan de Urbieta Berástegui y Lezo (? - died, 22 August 1553)

Basque infantryman who became famous when he captured king Francis I of France near the end of the Battle of Pavia on 24 February 1525.