Francisco de Moncada y Cardona (

Mequinenza Mequinenza (Aragonese and ) or Mequinensa () is a town and municipality of the province of Zaragoza, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It is located beside the river Segre, close to its confluence with the river Ebro between the Mequi ...

, 9 October 1532 –

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

, 12 November 1594) Fundación Medinaceli
was a Spanish noble from the 16th century. He was the son of

Juan de Moncada y de Tolça Juan de Moncada y de Tolça (died after 1536) was a Spanish noble from the 16th century. He was 3rd count di Marmilla, 11th Sieur of Aitona and 1st count of Aitona since 1532, baron of Serós, Mequinenza and Soses, Sieur of Vallobar, Palma, Ador ...

, 1st Count of Aitona and Ana de Cardona, daughter of

Fernando Ramon Folch, 2nd Duke of Cardona Fernando Ramon Folch De Cardona, 2nd Duke of Cardona, (circa 1470 – Barcelona, 13 November 1543), was a Spanish noble. He became 2nd Duke of Cardona in 1513 and was also Viceroy of Sicily. Fernando's father Juan Ramón Folch IV de Cardona (1 ...

In 1574 he became IX

Count of Osona The County of Osona, also Ausona ( ca, Comtat d'Osona, ; la, Comitatus Ausonae), was one of the Catalan counties of the ''Marca Hispanica'' in the Early and High Middle Ages. It was based around the capital city of Vic (''Vicus'') and the corresp ...

and

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. In October 1581, his County of Aitona was promoted to the Marquisate of Aitona by King Philip II of Spain. He became

Viceroy of Catalonia This is a list of Spanish viceroys (also called lieutenants) of the Principality of Catalonia from 1479 to 1713. *1479–1493: Enrique de Aragón *1493–1495: Juan de Lanuza y Garabito *1495–1496: Juan Fernández de Heredia *149 ...

between 1580–81 and

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from 1581 until his death. He married Lucrecia Gralla, señora de Subirat y de Esponella, and had 17 children, including * Gastón, his successor. *

Juan de Moncada Juan de Moncada (Catalan: ''Joan de Montcada i Gralla'') (Valencia, ? – Barcelona, 1622) was a Roman Catholic clergyman in Spain in the 17th century. He was born in Valencia as 11th child of Francisco de Moncada y Folch de Cardona, 1st Marquis of ...

, Archbishop of Tarragona.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moncada, Francisco de People from Valencia 1532 births 1594 deaths Viceroys of Catalonia Viceroys of Valencia 16th-century Spanish people