García Méndez de Sotomayor, I Señor del Castillo de Carpio

García Méndez de Sotomayor or Garcí Méndez II de Sotomayor, the second of his name (b. 1280 - d. ?) was a Castilian noble and head of the Méndez branch of the House of Sotomayor who founded the Señorio del Castillo de Carpio.

The House of Méndez de Sotomayor was the branch of the House of Sotomayor or Soutomaior that held title over the Señorio del Castillo de Carpio and the later Marquesado. The family was originally landed with title over Soutomaior, Province of Pontevedra, Galicia founded by Mendo Páez de Sorred, the Ricohombre of King Alfonso VII of Leon and Castile. Indeed, this original branch of the family would reach levels of significant prominence in the early 1700s with the creation of the Ducado de Sotomayor under Fernando Yáñez de Sotomayor Lima y Brito in 1703. García Méndez' branch of the family made it into the service of the Kingdom of Castile and participated in the Reconquista campaigns in Cordoba. Eventually, this branch of the House of Sotomayor would merge through marriage with the House of Haro and the titles over El Carpio would be elevated in 1559 to a Marquesado with Grandesa de España under Diego López de Haro y Sotomayor.

García Méndez was one of the sons of Alfonso García de Sotomayor, III Señor de Sotomayor and his wife Urraca Pires Barroso though it appears that García Méndez did not inherit his father's title over Sotomayor. His paternal grandfather was Garcí Méndez I de Sotomayor, Conquistador de Córdoba.