Luis González Torres de Navarra, Marquess of Campoverde

Luis González Torres de Navarra Castro, 5th Marquis of Campoverde, was a Spanish military commander during the Peninsular War.

Highly polemical,

When the captain general of Catalonia, O'Donnell, was forced to retire to Palma de Mallorca, due to the wound he received at La Bisbal, his command should have gone to the senior lieutenant-general in Catalonia, General Iranzo. However, Campoverde and his supporters staged a mutiny at Reus, and commander-in-chief of the Army of Catalonia. Later that month his troops were defeated at the Battle of El Pla (January 1811).

Siege of Tarragona

Having been given the command of Tarragona at the end of May 1811, the third week of siege by Suchet, Juan de Contreras made repeated requests for Campoverde's help. In 1819, Captain general Francisco Eguía had him arrested and he was imprisoned by the Inquisition, accused of having participated with Van Halen in the Masonic plot of Granada in 1817. He was released from prison with the coming of the Trienio Liberal in 1820 and appointed captain general of Granada.