Fernando de Aragón, 1st Duke of Montalto

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Fernando de Aragón y Guardato, 1st Duke of Montalto (before 1494–1542) was the eldest bastard son of king Ferdinand I of Naples and Diana Guardato, one of his mistresses.

The addition "Montalto de Aragón" is in remembrance of his grandfather, Alfonso V of Aragon.

Marriages and issue

Fernando was the ninth child of Ferdinand I of Naples. He first married Anna Sanseverino. The marriage was without issue.

He then married, Castellana de Cardona, and had the following:

• Antonio d'Aragona y Cardona?, 2nd Duke of Montalto, (*Naples, Italy, 1499/1506 - +Naples, Italy, 1543); 1st marriage: 1541, Ippolita della Rovere (1525–1561). 2nd marriage: Giulia Antonia de Cardona, Countess di Collisano
  • Pietro d'Aragona y de Cardona, 3rd Duke of Montalto, +after 1543
  • Antonio d'Aragona y de Cardona, 4th Duke of Montalto, (*1543 - +Naples, Italy, 1583); 1st marriage: at Naples, Italy, after 7 February 1562, Maria de la Cerda y Manuel, born 1542; 2nd marriage: Aloisia de Luna, Duchess of Bivona, deceased 1619; kids by 2nd marriage:
    • Maria d'Aragona y de Luna, 5th Duchess of Montalto; she married, 1590, Sicilian Francesco de Moncada y de Luna, 3rd Prince di Paternò, deceased 1595. Issue:
      • The so-called
        Juan Luis Francisco de la Cerda y Aragón, 6th Duke of Medinaceli
        . Notice he used first his mother family name and after his father family name, used sometimes in Spain with much influential and richer females at those times.
    • Bianca Antonia d'Aragona y de Luna
    • Ana Maria d'Aragona y de Luna;(+1677). She married
      Viceroy of Sardinia, 1657–1661, and Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands
      , 1664-1668.
  • Isabella d'Aragona y de Cardona, +31 August 1578; she married, 24 May 1565 Juan de la Cerda, 5th Duke of Medinaceli, (1544 - 5th Duke since 1575 - 29 May 1594).
• Marino, Italy, April 1490 – Roma, Italy
  , February 1547) .
• Maria d'Aragona, (*1505, +1568); married Alfonso d'Avalos d'Aquino, Marquess del Vasto e Pescara, (25 May 1502 - + Vigevano, Italy
  , 31 March 1546).

1. Corsignano, 1405 - Pope 1458 - Ancona, Italy
   , 1464).
2. Duke of Sora
   (*1445 - +1475)

• 
  Coat of Arms of the Dukes of Montalto, now known as

  kings of France. The red horizontal bands within the silvery background is related to the medieval Kingdom of Hungary
• 
  Tizian, 114x100 cm. Galleria of the Uffizi, Florence, Italy

  . Here, Francesco Maria della Rovere is depicted with his wife, Eleanora Gonzaga, born 1493, in a medallion.
• 
  Coat of Arms of the family "della Rovere", Princes of Urbino, through their association with the powerful "Montefeltro" Ducal family since 1503 also
• 
  Giovanna d'Aragona y Cardona(1502 - divorced 1550 - 11 September 1575), a daughter of Fernando de Aragón y Guardato, 1st Duke of Montalto was sister in law of famous artistic and literary woman Vittoria Colonna, (1490 - 1547), here depicted, through her marriage to her brother Ascanio I Colonna, Duke dei Marsi, (1500 - 1557). Painting by Sebastiano del Piombo, (1485 - June 1547)
• 
  Coat of Arms of Pope

  Dukes of Amalfi, failed strategist of the Crusades calls to counteract the conquest of Constantinople, now Istanbul, by the Turks in 1453. The Imperial marriage alliance between Austrians and naval efficiently Portuguese from the Avis

  family, did not work satisfactorily

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