Pedro Folc de Cardona

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Dukes of Cardona, Catalonia
, Spain (since 1491)

Pedro Folc de Cardona (Catalan: Pere Folc de Cardona) (died 11 April 1530), an illegitimate son of

archbishop of Tarragona
(1515–30).

History

Pere's half-brother

Castle of Xàtiva, occupied also by famous and ambitious Spanish-Italian Cesare Borgia
, where he died in 1509. As a token of both brothers' loyalty to old king John II of Aragon and his son, king Ferdinand II, lands and titles, as a Marquess of Pallars were passed to the 1st Duke of Cardona, Pere de Cardona's legitimate brother.

We should take into account that in 1467, Pere's half-brother had married Aldonça Enríquez, a sister-in-law of King John II and aunt of Ferdinand II as the sister of Juana Enríquez.

King John II's son, Ferdinand II (1452 - king successor of the Aragonese kingdom and the

Archbishop of Tarragona
.

Ferdinand II's 16-year-old grandson, King

black death at Alcover in the province of Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain, on 11 April 1530, when escaping from the plague or black death at Tarragona
seafaring city.

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