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Folch de Cardona | |
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Parent family | Angiò |
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Titles | Viscount, Count and Duke of Cardona Baron of Entença Baron of Bellpuig Count of Empordà Count of Golisano Count of Prades Duke of Segorbe Duke of Soma Marquis of Comares Marquis of Guadalest Marquis of Pallars Lord of Espejo and Lucena Lord of Chillón Lord of Guadalest Lord of Mazara del Vallo Viscount of Villamur |
The House of Folch de Cardona (or Cardona or Incardona in Sicily) was an important Spanish noble family of Catalan origin. They were second only in importance to the royal family of Aragon.
The legend says that they directly descended from the French royal family, but the real genealogical connection was never proved. Members of the family were Dukes of Cardona, Grandees of Spain, Viceroys of Catalonia, Sicily, Sardinia, Naples, New Granada. They also have four cardinals, many bishops, and one blessed.
Ramon Folc de Cardona i Anglesola was a Catalan general and politician, who served as the viceroy of Naples during the Italian Wars and commanded the Spanish forces in Italy during the War of the League of Cambrai. He was granted the title count of Oliveto in the Kingdom of Naples, on 12 December 1515.
Pedro Nuño Colón de Portugal y Castro, 6th Duke of Veragua, 6th Marquess of Jamaica, 6th Count of Gelves was viceroy of New Spain from December 3, 1673, to December 8, 1673.
Gonzalo Andrés Domingo Fernández de Córdoba was one of the main Spanish military leaders during the Eighty Years' War, Thirty Years' War, and the War of the Mantuan Succession.
Don Carlos II Coloma y de Saa, knight of Santiago, 1st Marquess of Espinar was a Spanish military commander, diplomat and author. He is also known as a translator of Tacitus.
Claude Abraham de Tubières de Grimoard de Pestel de Lévis was a French military leader.
Pedro III Fajardo de Zúñiga y Requesens was a Spanish soldier and aristocrat notable for his command of Spanish forces during the Catalan Revolt after 1640. He was Viceroy of Valencia, 1631–1635, Viceroy of Navarre, 1638–1640, Viceroy of Catalonia, 1640–1642, Spanish Ambassador to Rome, and Viceroy of Sicily, 1644–1647.
Fernando Ramon Folch De Cardona, 2nd Duke of Cardona,, was a Spanish noble. He became 2nd Duke of Cardona in 1513 and was also Viceroy of Sicily.
Elvira Fernández de Córdoba y Manrique de Figueroa was a Spanish noblewoman, the only surviving daughter of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, a Spanish general involved with the Italian Wars and viceroy of Naples from 1503 to 1507, and his second wife Maria Manrique de Lara y Espinoza.
Pascual de Aragón y Córdoba was a Spanish nobleman and cleric. He served as Viceroy of Naples and as Archbishop of Toledo.
Antonio Fernández de Córdoba y Cardona, 5th Duke of Sessa, was a Spanish nobleman. He held the titles of Duke of Sessa, Duke of Soma, and Duke of Baena, among others.
Gonzalo II Fernández de Córdoba, third Duke of Sessa, was the grandson of a Viceroy of Naples, Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, first duke of Sessa, the son of the first duke's daughter, Elvira Fernández de Córdoba y Manrique, and of her husband, Luis Fernández de Córdoba. Gonzalo II, holder of several dukedoms and many other lesser titles, Spanish and Italian, was Captain General of the Spanish Troops in Italy, Great Admiral of the Kingdom of Naples, and a member of the Spanish king Royal Council for Italy and the Royal War Council.
Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera y Colonna, 5th Duke of Medina de Rioseco,, he was hereditary 9th Admiral of Castile, and the 8th Count of Melgar.
Francisco IV de Benavides y Dávila,, Viceroy of Sicily, 1678–1687, Viceroy of Naples, 1687–1696, 9th Count of Santisteban del Puerto since March 1666, was the second son of Diego de Benavides, 8th Count of Santisteban (1607–1666).
Giovanni II Ventimiglia y Moncada, 6th Marquis of Geraci was a Sicilian aristocrat, a member of the prominent House of Venitmiglia.
Joaquín Fernández de Portocarrero y Mendoza, 4th Marquis of Almenara, 9th Count of Palma del Río was a Grandee of Spain who served Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor as Viceroy of Sicily and interim Viceroy of Naples, before entering the priesthood in his late forties and rising to the rank of cardinal, ending his life as Cardinal-Bishop of Sabina.
Fernando de Aragón y Guardato, 1st Duke of Montalto was the eldest bastard son of king Ferdinand I of Naples and Diana Guardato, one of his mistresses.
Antonio de Cardona y de Xerica-Aragon Viceroy of Sicily 1419–1421, son of Hugo de Cardona and Beatriz de Xerica y Martinez de Luna,
Gilabert de Centelles y de Cabrera was a Viceroy of Sicily and the son of Gilabert de Centelles y de Riusech, Baron of Nules, and Elionor de Cabrera.
Antonio Folc de Cardona y Enriquez, Viceroy of Sardinia, 1534 - 1549, deceased 1555, was a cadet son of Joan Ramon Folc de Cardona, 1st Duke of Cardona, a.k.a. Joan Ramon Folc IV de Cardona,, title awarded in 1482 by Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabel I of Castile, Marquis of Pallars since 1491, title awarded by the same Royal Couple, 5th Count of Cardona till 1482 and "Aldonza Enriquez y Fernandez de Quiñones", Lady of Elche and Crevillente, born 1450, married 1467, 9th child from the second marriage of Fadrique Enriquez, 2nd hereditary Admiral of Castile, deceased 23 September 1473, with "Teresa Fernandez de Quiñones y de Luna", 4 males/5 females.
Juan IV Coloma y Cardona, 1st Count of Elda,, 3rd Sieur of Elda, Governor of Alicante Castle, Count of Elda, Viceroy of Sardinia, 1570-1577.