GARCIA DE PAREDES, DIEGO , Spanish soldier and duellist, born at Trujillo, Estremadara. He served in his youth in the war of Granada; after killing a relative, Ruy Sanchez de Vargas, in a street fight, he fled to Rome, where he took service as a soldier of Pope Alexander VI., then in conflict with the barons of the Romagna. A personal quarrel resulting in a murder obliged him to pass over to the enemy. By his daring and strength he won the admiration and trust of the Colonnas, as also of Gonzalo de Cordoba. He took part in the wars between Ferdinand V. of Aragon and Louis XII. on the frontier of Navarre, and once against the Turks on the Danube till 1530. His country men, crediting him with feats of fabulous strength, made him the hero of many Miinchausen-like stories of personal prowess. He was killed at a jumping-match at Bologna in 1534; his body was carried to Trujillo and there buried in the church of Santa Maria Mayor in